Category: Safety
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Russian yacht skipper gets 4½ years in jail for causing swimmer’s death
Russian yachtsman Sergey Marchenko has been jailed for four and a half years and ordered to pay one million rubles in compensation to a young woman’s family, whom he ran down with a yacht back in 2010, in an area of a Moscow lake reserved for swimmers. The woman became caught up in the propellers…
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Swim and Survive with Eamon Sullivan
1 in 5 kids can’t swim the length of a pool, even if their life depended on it. Help Royal Life Saving reduce child drowning, visit swimandsurvive.com.au.
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Learn to swim – Better Health Channel
Featuring Tammy van Wisse and a not-so-great up-and-coming swimmer called Tony Shaw. For more information about water safety, visit the Better Health Channel website.
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Don’t push your luck with crocs
Some people still think it is safe to go swimming in waterways across the Northern Territory in Australia, but Environment Department director of conservation and wildlife Brett Easton warns that they are taking huge risks by mistakenly assuming crocodiles do not inhabit them. “Some of the things that we heard continually is that it was…
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It’s a shark ‘accident’, not an ‘attack’
The concept of the ‘rogue’ shark, seeking revenge on its human nemesis is nothing more that Hollywood fodder, says Christopher Neff, researcher at the University of Sydney carrying out the world’s first PhD on the politics of ‘shark bite incidents’. He says we should drop the term ‘attack’ and all the other emotive language as…
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Geoff Huegill involved in scuba diver rescue effort
Australia’s Geoff Huegill was one of the first at the scene of a tragic diving death at Rottnest Island in Western Australia yesterday, where a 55-year-old scuba diver died after suffering an apparent heart attack while diving with family. Huegill was on a rigid inflatable boat with two other men when they were flagged down…
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Eamon Sullivan nearly drowned as a kid
Australia’s star swimmer Eamon Sullivan could easily have become just another drowning statistic when, as a toddler, he accidentally rode into his family’s backyard pool. It was only the vigilance of his parents that saved him, and now the 26-year-old repays his fortune by helping Royal Life Saving, Uncle Tobys and Barnados teach disadvantaged children…
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Banning chlorine would improve swim safety by lowering the corrosion risk
Never thought of that, but this guy on ecademy makes a good point: In November 2011 a five month old baby diseased after being hit by a loud-speaker that fell from the ceiling of a swimming pool in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Over the past decennia several incidents occurred in swimming pools worldwide due to false…
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Prince George Aquatics Adult Swimming Lessons
A promo for what seems to be a well-structured, quality program teaching adults to swim, offered by the Aquatic Division of the City of Prince George (Canada). That bearded guy is epic !