Category: Safety
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Ex-swim coach accused of abuse appears in court
Read Boston Globe When the young boy joined the Arlington Boys & Girls Club swim team in the late 1970s, his coach was Paul Collins, who also dated his family’s neighbor and would sometimes fill in as baby sitter. On those occasions, when the boy went to sleep, Collins would sit at his bedside and…
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YMCA Teaches Minority City Kids to Swim to Stop Drownings
The president of the YMCA of Greater Boston talks about the organization’s urban swimming program, which teaches poor black and latino kids how to swim to keep them from drowning. Kevin Washington, who learned to swim at the
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David Letterman – Will Smith Can’t Swim
Will opens up to Dave about his biggest weakness http://youtu.be/BIVJQ7OHJTo Image courtesy of Walmart, CC BY 2.0
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National Learn to Swim Day
See Fox8 Cleveland Ten people die every day in the United States, 2 of the 10 are under the age of 12. That’s why the YMCA of Greater Cleveland is working to educate kids and parents on the importance of water safety. Saturday is National Learn to Swim Day. May also marks National Water Safety…
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Learning to swim: The younger the better
See Live 5 WCSC Swimming is a life-saving skill says James Island swim team coach Eddie Mason, who teaches kids as young as five. “It keeps them from being afraid of the water as they get older, and we find that the kids who started at five are usually faster and better swimmers by the…
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Wanda Sykes on Learning To Swim
Wanda Sykes on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, he he he http://youtu.be/Wl00fSLIZw8
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Meridian swim club deals with water problems
See wtok.com Dirty water is being blamed for causing a murky mess at a Meridian swim club. The owner of what use to be Briarwood Country Club, estimates that between three and four inches of mud poured into the 10 foot deep pool there when workers attempted to fill it. Although this is a concern,…
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How I Learned to Swim
This is an inspirational and well-told story of overcoming your fears – produced on an ipad by an educator-in-training in a SHIFT workshop. Submerge. How I Learned to Swim from Shift Workshops on Vimeo.