Category: Safety
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FINA suspends Flavio Bomio
As reported yesterday, Flavio A. Bomio is in jail on child sexual molestation charges, whereof he’s partially admitted sexual relationships with two underage boys. Now FINA suspends him with immediate effect, as stated in this press release: Lausanne (SUI), December 22, 2011 – Following information received from the Swiss Swimming Federation and articles in the…
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FINA committee member Flavio Bomio arrested for child molestation
Switzerland’s swimming community is in a state of shock after the now ex-president of Bellinzona swimming club, Honorary Secretary of FINA’s Technical Open Water Swimming Committee, Chairman of LEN’s Technical Open Water Committee, Honorary Member of the Swiss Swimming Federation and Member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Selection Committee, Flavio A. Bomio (69), partially admitted to allegations…
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Great white shark attack victim shares his story
“I just remember hearing a crunch, darkness and next thing I knew was in the water, underwater,” says Eric Tarantino, shark attack victim. “Everything was quiet and I could see the shark.” Via Central Coast News
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Elevating pool is both very 007 and good for the disabled
Hidden Water Pools founder Stefan Kanetis designed this system to aid his mother Delicia, who for many years was a professional dancer, but later paid the price with severe arthritis and muscle damage in her lower extremities. Her doctor suggested that in order to avoid the wheelchair, she needed to exercise daily in a warm…
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Diana Nyad’s Penn State Response
Jeez, those stats are scary: “Don’t we realize that this is a full-blown epidemic in our country. They say that 1 in 4 girls, 1 in 6 boys do not reach the birthday age of 18 in our country without being sexually molested by somebody they know”. Read also diananyad.com.
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Surfer Stephen King escapes shark attack with huge bite taken out of his surfboard
Australian surfer Stephen King was taking an early morning surf off the coast in New South Wales, when a shark swam up and lunged at him, scraping him and taking a huge chunk out of his surfboard. “There was just a bang from the side and I went cartwheeling through the air, then there was…
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2-year-old boy survives 30 minutes underwater (!)
Not even in ice-cold water, but in the family pool. And he is already bicycling again, saved by the doctors putting him into ‘therapeutic hypothermia‘, where your body is cooled down to almost hibernation, and then slowly brought back to life again. He just woke up and was 100% normal again. Gee, they must rename…
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HIV-positive couple jailed for swimming pool sex act
An HIV-positive Edinburgh couple who downed three bottles of vodka before carrying out a sex act in a public swimming pool have been jailed. This was while children were swimming nearby, and when asked to leave the premises, they first asked for their entrance money back, and then spat at police officers and a pool…
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So you’re 426 feet down in your freedive and then the sledge jams
This must be exciting, dig the German speak, it gets even better if you try to hold your breath with the guy.