Category: Safety
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Swimming like a Samurai
Walking or running in a full suit of samurai armour is not the easiest thing in the world. Swimming in it is even harder, behold the Kobori ryū samurai style combative swimming. Read for instance Japan Daily
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CPR Makes You Undead
A WTF PSA proudly presented by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation, see #theundeading via Mashable
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Go Chemless: The Saltwater Swimming Pool Myth Exposed
Dr. Russell Betts, (Ph.D. Organic Chemistry) discusses the truth about Saltwater Swimming Pools. Go Chemless The Saltwater Swimming Pool Myth Exposed from Go Chemless on Vimeo.
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NIKE “Swim”
Hmmm, I’m putting this in the Safety category (for lack of same) NIKE “Swim” from William Kehoe Sound Design on Vimeo.
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Surviving Cold Water Immersion & Hypothermia
Volunteers experience the 3 effects of cold water immersion – cold shock, cold incapacitation & hypothermia. Learn how to survive a fall into cold water. When a person is immersed in cold water without a life jacket on, there are limits to how long a person can keep themselves afloat – regardless of what swimming…
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Swim coach jailed for sexting ALL his contacts, blames his fat finger
Doub, 24-year-old swimming coach Craig Evans had typed an intimate invitation to his girlfriend asking her if she would like to engage in sex with him ‘skin on skin’, when a slip of the fingers on his BlackBerry smartphone resulted in it going out to ALL the numbers on his phone. As well as having…
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Crew member drowns on Lone Ranger set
Tragedy has struck the production of Disney and Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger summer blockbuster after one of its crew members sadly passed away earlier today. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that he was prepping a tank, possibly cleaning it, when someone noticed no bubbles from the gear were surfacing. Apparently he had a heat…
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Brits warned to not swim naked with crayfish
The Red Swamp Crayfish, which are native to America, have rocketed in numbers in the past few months at two ponds in Hampstead Heath, north London (UK), now estimated to be more than 5,000 ‘very defensive’ of their territory, with powerful claws. Now the regular nude dippers are being warned to beware of the crayfish,…