Category: Safety
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Joseph’s Story – Swim Kids Operation 10000
“Follow 7 year old Joseph on his journey as he learns to swim and be safe in the water, mentored by Olympian Cate Campbell and Paralympian Matt Cowdrey. In Australia, drowning remains one of the leading causes of preventable death in children. Unfortunately, while many children are learning valuable swimming and water safety skills, alarmingly…
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North Baltimore swimmer’s death was accidental, autopsy shows
Read The Baltimore Sun An autopsy on the body of Louis Lowenthal, the 14-year-old swimmer from Towson who died last October after being found unconscious in a pool at North Baltimore Aquatic Club, determined his death was accidental and caused by complications of partial drowning.
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Oscar Pistorious charged with murder after shooting girlfriend Reeva Stankamp
Shock story out of South Africa this morning, Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius aka ‘The Blade Runner’ is in police custody after he allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend in the early hours of the morning believing she was an intruder.
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The Lifeguards
“Two comedy lifeguards have fun with passers by clamping down hard on running, shouting and of course petting!!” The Lifeguards . The fairly Famous Family from Fools Paradise on Vimeo.
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10-year-old boy’s body recovered in swimming pool
Learning was paralysed on Tuesday morning at Nairobi River primary school in BuruBuru estate, after the body of a 10-year-old standard four pupil was found floating in the school swimming pool. Angry parents could not understand why lessons were going on even with the body still in the pool. The lifeless body was discovered by…
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Underwater video from when police found car and woman gone missing 20 years ago
Florida police has released a video of an underwater search after discovering a missing woman’s car in a canal, that they have been looking for since she when missing in 1993. Inside, detectives found skeletal remains, later identified as the missing woman, Frances Hendrickson. By the way, doesn’t that anchor look eerily familiar? NBC-2.com WBBH…
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Brentwood swim coach accused of sex abuse
Read St. Louis Post-Dispatch A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses an unidentified swim coach who worked at the YMCA in the late 1980s of sexually abusing two students. The suit, filed in St. Louis County Circuit Court, says that the boys took lessons at the Mid-County branch of the St. Louis YMCA in Brentwood in 1986…
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Rick Curl agrees to plead guilty to child sex abuse
Read reachforthewall.com Longtime area swim coach Rick Curl, whose former athletes include world record breakers and Olympic gold medalists, has agreed to plead guilty to child sexual abuse at a hearing scheduled for Feb. 21 in Montgomery County Circuit Court. Curl, now 63, was charged in October after his former swim student, Kelley Currin, told…