Category: Safety
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Surfer knocked unconscious as whale tosses boarders at Bondi Beach
Read for instance 9MSN, Illawarra Mercury and ABC Bishan Rajapakse, a 38-year-old doctor from Bondi, was knocked unconscious for 10 seconds when he was struck by a whale, thought to be a southern right, while surfing at Bondi Beach on Sunday morning. The surfer was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital and is in a satisfactory…
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Wahoo Swim Bands detect if a swimmer has been under for too long
See story on KSTP.com and wahoosms.com It looks like a headband and if a child that’s wearing one gets in trouble- parents and lifeguards will know. If a child is submerged for 20 seconds, a light flashes on a tower. If a child is under for 30 seconds or more, an alarm goes off. A…
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Harrison Okene’s survival story presents intriguing physics puzzle
Physicists intrigued by the story that 29-year-old Harrison Okene survived being trapped in a 4 feet high air pocket for 60 hours underwater off the Nigerian coast, see phys.org and StackExchange Okene was trapped in a capsized boat with an air bubble described as only 4 feet high. Normally, a person would need about 1,000…
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Former swim coach Greg Winslow should have been fired sooner
Read MercuryNews and seattlepi The University of Utah should have fired former swim coach Greg Winslow by no later than early 2012 for alcohol abuse that was corrosive to the entire team, an independent investigation has found. According to the findings revealed Tuesday, during his first two years, Winslow used psychological manipulation against his swimmers to motivate by fear. While…
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Public swimming pools just as dirty as Lake Erie
See wkyc The Centers for Disease Control tested a number of public pools and found that 58 percent were positive for E. coli, bacteria normally found in the human gut and feces. Other bacteria that can cause skin rashes was found in 59 percent. Pools don’t put up signs warning of water advisories. Lake Erie’s…
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Viral video of baby swimming across pool stirs controversy
Read for instance 5News, ZAP2it, KPLCtv and FOX19 Adam Christensen posted this video of his 16-month-old daughter, Elizabeth, on YouTube. She was trained by a professional instructor, and her parents were standing by, but some parents are chiming in, questioning whether it is safe. Adam BC’s disclaimer with the video: “Just so everyone knows, I…
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Father electrocuted while swimming in Lake Cumberland
Read WKYT.com Kevin Short died Sunday in what officials simply describe as a tragic, freak accident. He was swimming with others near Garland Bend on Lake Cumberland when an exposed cord came too close to an aluminum ladder. “What happened was the cord went in between the ladder and the dock, it had a raw…
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CPR is now simply Hands Only to the beat of ‘Staying Alive’
See for instance the American Heart Association and the British Heart Foundation. We have posted the Vinnie Jones video before, but it is definitely worth a re-share. And there are other examples And you know what? - It might even work ! A grandfather who suffered a massive heart attack on a bus has told how he…
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