Category: Safety
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Retired coach, active swimmer dies during swim leg of triathlon
Read for instance News3 and Las Vegas Review-Journal A veteran principal, educator and coach died Saturday while competing with his family as a team in the 10th annual Pumpkinman Triathlon. Patrick Hayden, 59, was pronounced dead at 9:30 a.m. at Boulder City Hospital, according to the Clark County coroner’s office. He was found unresponsive about…
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Quick reacting Kasper Vitten saves fellow swimmer’s life at Danish swim meet
Sunday 22 September during warm-up at the Horsens Cup in Horsens, Denmark, 18-year-old Kasper Vitten from the Copenhagen Swim Club discovered a swimmer in cramps on the bottom on the pool. He immediately dove down and got 15-year-old Lea Mo Føste Andersen from Randers Swim Club out of the pool, where she received CPR for…
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Miraculous survival in the sea, 18 fishermen caught in cyclone Phailin swim to coast
Amid the tales of devastation caused by cyclone Phailin is a story of a miraculous survival. 18 fishermen who were stranded in deep sea off the coast of Paradeep when cyclone Phailin struck swam their way against the tide and survived. http://youtu.be/wYOlt08JtcM
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Charlotte swim program helps minorities get into pool
See WCNC Jahari Dunn doesn’t seem to be doing anything that miraculous when she swims with the Queen City Dolphins. But the 17-year-old Cato Middle College High School student knows that what she does with her team is remarkable. “I saw the water and i jumped in and i didn’t know how to swim. My…
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69-year-old swimming coach found guilty of assault after grabbing child by the arm
Read for instance Bournemouth Echo A swimming coach who taught three generations of Dorset children is devastated after a ‘black cloud’ has been left hanging over her 50-year career. Janet Hewitt, 69, was found guilty of assault by beating last week after Weymouth Magistrates’ Court heard that she grabbed a child by the arm after…
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Are 512 pushups too many for a swimmer? A Missouri jury says no
Read The Wichita Eagle Five hundred twelve pushups. Twice. That’s 1,024 pushups. Alexandra “Ali†Swee, now a Memphis, Tenn., college student, says she was told to do them one night five years ago during a Blue Springs practice when she was a 13-year-old member of the Kansas City Blazers swim club. She contended the excessive…
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Former swim coach Todd Sousa gets another 16-month sentence for sex crimes
Read SanJuanCapistranoPatch A Laguna Hills swimming coach who has already served time behind bars for having sex with one of his 15-year-old students was sentenced today to another 16 months in prison for molesting another teenage girl. Todd Robert Sousa, 39, who co-owned Swim Venture Inc. of Laguna Hills with his wife, pleaded guilty in June to six counts of lewd acts on…
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Swimmer killed by shark off Jeffreys Bay in South Africa
See for instance JBAYNEWS, IOL and the National Sea Rescue Institute JBAYNEWS 74 year old JBay local Burgert van der Westhuizen was an experienced open water swimmer, who regularly swam along the coastline of Jeffreys Bay. He was often seen training in the canals of Marina Martinique, mainly in the summer months. Burgert had the respect…