Category: Safety
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Cool Way To Put Out A Boat Fire
MacGyver to the rescue – “A boat caught on fire at Lake Lyndon in New Zealand with no fire extinguisher anywhere near. Then suddenly, out of nowhere….”
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Rescue workers save man and dog trapped on icy lake
Read Nothing To Do With Arbroath With his waders on, Eicher stepped out onto the ice, taking a chance on every step. “I just wasn’t thinking. I just wanted to try to rescue the friend of the family,” he said. “It broke and I fell in, and I was probably about 3 and 1/2 feet…
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Best pool fails of 2012
“So you discovered treadmills weren’t too chummy and thought swimming might be more up your street. Caution: surfaces become slippery when wet.” http://youtu.be/C5aTaPIBsqQ
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Bathers still swim despite shark attack
Many bathers have defied a swimming ban at a Port St Johns’ Beach, following an apparent shark attack on Christmas Day. The victim, a 15-year-old boy, is still missing.
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Proposed Indiana law would ban swimming during rip current warnings
A northern Indiana lawmaker says he plans to submit legislation that would outlaw swimming in Lake Michigan when rip current warnings are issued. Read wsbt.com
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Shark tank crack injures 15 in Shanghai
Fifteen people were injured, though none seriously, after a 33.5-ton aquarium burst on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at the Orient Shopping Center in Shanghai, police said. Three sharks raised inside the 7-meter-long, 3-meter-high aquarium died in the incident. http://youtu.be/Gn0YcspiesI
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Woman injured in Hastings Christmas swim dies
A Hastings woman injured during a Christmas Day swim in the sea has died. The lady was knocked off her feet by a wave and hit her head on a groyne at Hastings Beach about 10.40am yesterday. Lifeboat crews pulled her unconscious body from the water before she was taken to hospital. She had been…
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Michael Phelps Confesses to Early Fear of Water
From August 2012, American swimming legend Michael Phelps confesses that he used to be afraid of putting his face under water. The winner of a record eighteen Olympic medals also said his first time on the podium was the most special.
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School Swimming Programs: Physical Education – David Sparkes
A FINA 2012 World Aquatics Convention presentation. Very nice.