Category: Safety
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‘Swimming With Monsters’: Team gets charged by angry hippo
See Huffpost TV Monster Week continues on Animal Planet with Steve Backshall “Swimming With Monsters.” The wildlife expert and his crew traveled to southern Africa to get Steve the chance to swim with hippos.
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The SEAL: Wearable Swim Monitoring and Drowning Detection System
See and support this project on indiegogo, currently at about $14,500 raised of $85,000 goal. The SEAL wearable swim monitor and drowning detection system offers an extra layer of protection by creating a virtual safety network between swimmers, guards, and parents by wirelessly connecting wearable swimmer and guard/parent bands through a compact, portable monitoring hub.…
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Swim coach Rick Curl sentenced to seven years
Swim coach Rick Curl says to his victim: “Every day of my life has been spent thinking and feeling awful about my behavior.” See ABC7
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SPLASH – Our Y’s Water Safety Program
“SPLASH” is the Westside Family YMCA’s free water safety program for fourth graders attending local Title I LAUSD schools. During these lessons students develop or improve swimming skills, learn about water safety, and emphasize the importance of character, honesty, respect and responsibility. All participants emerge from the program with skills to help them be safe…
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Swim Club Founder Rick Curl Sentenced to 7 Years
Read for instance NBC Washington The co-founder of a prominent Northern Virginia swim club was sentenced Thursday to serve seven years in prison for sexually abusing a student. Rick Curl pleaded guilty back in February to abusing Kelley Currin 30 years ago. Currin was a swimmer at the Curl-Burke Swim Club, which Curl co-founded. Curl…
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Swim coach from Walnut Creek pleads not guilty to sex crime charges
Read MercuryNews.com and ktvu.com A former swim and water polo coach pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges alleging sex crimes against a teenage girl, according to the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office. Christopher Yang, 27, of Walnut Creek, was charged in April with nine felonies, including four counts of unlawful sex with a minor.…
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10 On Your Side Special Report: Treading Water
See wavy.com, via Diversity In Aquatic The barriers keeping African Americans from learning to swim is a difficult subject to talk about. There are stereotypes that black people cannot swim. That is not what this story is about. Almost everyone is capable of learning to swim. This story is about the barriers that keep African…
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Warning over low number of British pupils who can swim
More children may drown without better school swimming provision, the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has warned. Half of seven- to 11-year-olds in England, some 1.1 million children, cannot swim the length of a standard pool, research suggests. Only 2% of schools surveyed delivered the government’s recommended 22 hours a year of swimming lessons. See also…
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Cullen Jones gets kids swimming in New York
Read Enstars With the Rio Olympics still years away, Olympic medalist Cullen Jones is taking time out to give back through the sport he loves. Jones made a stop in Harlem, NY, last week to promote USA Swimming Foundation’s Make A Splash initiative, as part of the group’s national tour. Make A Splash is the national swimming…