Category: Safety
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How to introduce your baby to the water
“Watch as Parents Magazine shows you how to make your baby’s first swim experience fun and safe. Pick the right time and place when introducing your baby to the water. Going in the morning may have less people in the pool and hopefully your baby will be well-rested. Acting confident in the water will reassure your…
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Lessons help prepare swimmers for water emergencies
Experts who teach swimming lessons say it only takes 20 seconds for a swimmer to run into trouble in the water — and what happens in those 20 seconds and make the difference between life and death
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Phoenix police officer saves swimmer in Hawaii
Woman was being pulled out to sea by current. Police released showing the woman jump into the water then almost immediately begin to struggle. See azfamily.com
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Learn to Swim as an Adult
Atlanta Swimming very own Matt Murphy and Friend of Atlanta Swimming Brenda Tran sat down with Tacoma Perry of Fox 5 Atlanta to talk about why it is never to late for every adult to learn to swim.
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Higher percentage of US minorities don’t know how to swim; fear the biggest barrier
See wsoctv.com Several recent drownings in North Carolina are drawing attention to an unsettling gap when it comes to minorities and swimming. About 70 percent of black children do not know how to swim, compared to 40 percent of white kids. A study by USA Swimming blames the gap on income and lack of inner-city…
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2013 World’s Largest Swim Lesson – Brendan Hansen at Aquatica San Antonio
“Aquatica San Antonio participated in the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson on June 18, 2013. We were joined by special guest Brendan Hansen, six-time Olympic medal winner and former world record holder.”
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ABC13 on Water Safety
“For the fifth time this month, someone has drowned in our area. The latest drowning happpened on Wednesday on the Chattooga River in Oconee County. It is a reminder that people need to be vigilant when they are out on the water.”
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Worlds Largest Swim Lessons
Setting the Guinness World Record for the single largest simultaneous swim lesson. It was an international effort that brought together over 35,000 participants on five different continents. See
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Coast Guard Florida: Injured Swimmer
A pleasure cruise ends in disaster when a swimmer gets tangled in the boat’s propeller! Time is of the essence; can the Coast Guard get to the young victim in time?