Category: Safety
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Bungee jumper survives cord snapping, swimming the wild Zambezi river
22-year-old Australian backpacker Erin Langworthy fell 20 meters into the Zambezi river after the cord snapped while she was bungee jumping of bridge at Victoria Falls in Zambia. Feet still tied together, with a good part of the cord in tow, into the turbulent waters beneath the world’s largest waterfall. According to MailOnline infested with…
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Former boy scouts swim instructor gets 95 years on child porn charges
A former Gerber Boy Scout Camp director was just sentenced to 95 years in federal prison for filming young boys dressing in a YMCA locker room and for owning a a massive collection of child porn. Scott Allan Herrick, 40, of Twin Lakes, Michigan, surreptitiously videotaped boys as they were dressing in the boys’ locker…
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Cullen Jones keeps on inspiring kids to swim
We’ve been there before, but now it’s on CNN, with a lot of interesting comments from Jones himself about his choice to be a swimmer rather than a basketball player like his father, etc. Via CNN, see also Make a Splash
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Vinnie Jones’ hard and fast (hands-only) CPR
Toughest guy in the universe teaches us how to do CPR, without the kissing because “you only kiss your missus on the lips”. Courtesy of British Heart Foundation, see bhf.org.uk/handsonlyCPR, where they’re preparing a free smartphone app and everything. Thanks Vinnie!
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Life after 615 – the recovery blog of John Caughlin
As you probably remember, John Caughlin lost most of his right arm and thumb and index finger on his left hand, after being hit by a boat (without propeller guard) during the Maui Channel swim on September 3rd 2011. Life after 615 is a blog about this new challenge of his, named so because they…
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Pentagon developing impulse gun to make swimmers puke mid-stroke
According to Wired, publicIntelligence.org leaked a U.S. Department of Defence “Non-Lethal Weapons Reference Book†online last week, that amongst other thinks mentions an “Impulse Swimmer Gun” that uses “pulsed sound waves” to cause “auditory impairment and/or nausea” among scuba divers engaged in “unauthorized underwater activities”. As if sharks and sea swells wasn’t enough. Read Wired.
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Peter Vanderkaay teaching kids in Detroit to swim
According to the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, six out of ten kids will never learn how to swim in the city of Detroit. But with the help of Olympic gold medalist Peter Vanderkaay and his brothers, a group is teaching as many kids as they can to be good swimmers. Read more here on wxyz.com.
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SeaWorld killer orca Tilikum is sick
One of SeaWorld’s most famous and controversial killer whales is ill, male orca Tilikum who killed veteran trainier Dawn Brancheau in February 2010. He has been allowed to participate in performances since the incident, mostly to splash audience members with his enormous tail, but no trainer has been allowed to swim in the water with…
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Workers face charges for allowing dirty pool to stay open with a body at bottom
Two former state workers will face criminal charges after they allowed a dirty swimming pool to stay open while the body of a woman lay at the bottom. We’ve heard about the story before, the water in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Pool in Fall River, Massachusetts, was so murky, that Marie Joseph’s body lay there…