Category: Safety
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3 interesting talks at the NEG 2012 Speaker’s Corner event
So at the just-for-fun Speaker’s Corner event on Friday night at Hotel Føroyar, our federation president Jon Hestoy got into a mine-is-bigger-than-yours competition with Ilkka Keskinen from Finland and Hafþór Gudmundsson from Iceland, speakers at the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching, on how many 5-6th grade kids could swim in their countries. Unfortunately…
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Boat race swimmer banned from going with 100 meter of the (extensive) Olympic torch route
35-year-old Trenton Oldfield who on April 7 stopped the 158th annual Boat Race by swimming between the boats was yesterday banned from the Olympic torch route and celebrations for the Queen’s Jubilee. Now, that is a lot of ground covered over time, since the Flame will come within 10 miles of 95% of people in…
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Swim lessons can reduce toddler drownings by 88%
According to the US Center of Disease Control and Prevention, participation in formal swimming lessons can reduce the risk of drowning by as much as 88% among young children aged 1 to 4 years, who are at greatest risk of drowning. But with many families still struggling financially, swim lessons are not a top priority…
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Lee Memorial Health System on Pool Safety
“The one thing that will keep the kids safe around the pool is a parental supervision. Watching your kids while they’re swimming to make sure that they are out of danger and they are not falling down hitting their head or having any types of accident while they’re in the pool.â€
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Helmet cam may hold jet-skier Joseph Scaturchio’s last moments
Bound to happen, I guess, with the cameras marketed (and proven) as rugged, survive-all ‘action cams’, but still incredibly sad: Police are investigating the death of Victorian competitor Joseph Scaturchio in the Australian Watercross Nationals in a crash on the Southport Broadwater on Sunday. Mr Scaturchio, 22, was killed during a collision between three jet-skis.…
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Stewie the Duck launches free water safety app on iTunes
Stew Leonard III Children’s Charities today announced the launch of its new Stewie the Duck Learns to Swim mobile app for iPad and iPhone. The app, which is free of charge, is the first app of its kind designed to promote water safety to children. It was remarkably approved by Apple on April 4, 2012,…
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Iranian diplomat accused of fondling kids at Brazilian swimming club
An Iranian diplomat has been accused of fondling girls at a local swimming pool in Brazil’s capital city Brasilia, a case testing local perceptions of diplomatic immunity laws. Witnesses said the diplomat had been pretending to swim around the pool in a “duck-diving” manner, police said. While underwater, however, the diplomat surreptitiously fondled four girls…
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Texas ‘Mud Race’ death won’t stop next month’s race in Houston
Texas officials are trying to determine how a man died during a challenging and at times chaotic obstacle race called the “Original Mud Run†last weekend, but race organizers are going ahead with another mud run for next month. Read more here on ABC News.
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30-year-old racer’s body found after ‘mud run’ in Forth Worth
Friends and family say 30-year-old Tony Weathers was one of the most talented athletes they knew, and cannot understand how a man in such elite physical condition could die during Fort Worth’s “Original Mud Run” on Saturday. He was in the competitive division of the Mud Run, consisting of challenges including “Hole to Hades”, “Leap…