Category: Safety
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Face Your Fears – Water
Someone has peed too much in that pool Face Your Fears – Water from Changing Faces on Vimeo.
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Did a seal save Cohen from being killed by the great white ?
British resident Michael Cohen was attacked within seconds of plunging into the water at Fish Hoek near Cape Town last Thursday, by a great white that ripped a good part of his right leg off and badly mauled this left foot. Two quick-thinking pensioners saved him by tying a makeshift tourniquet made of the leg…
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Danish reporter tries to re-read story about ‘dry swimming’ without laughing (and fails)
Sorry for those of you that don’t understand Danish, but this is hilarious. Anders Breinholt host of the comedy show ‘Natholdet‘ watches a news segment about ‘dry swimming’ together with Danish prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, where the reporter cracks up when realizing what he is reading from the teleprompter (that some Danish schools are…
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Kenrick Monk changes story, wasn’t run down but fell off skateboard
Shock – after originally claiming that he was the victim of a possible intentional hit-an-run accident while riding a bicycle yesterday, Kenrick Monk now admits to have made up the story, lied to the police and the public, and that actually he just fell of his skateboard. “I think the car just sounded a bit…
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USA Triathlon forms task force after 5 athletes die in races
USA Triathlon is creating a task force to determine if anything more can be done to prevent deaths such as those 5 that occurred at recent races in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Louisville, Ky. According to the research published last year in The Journal of American Medicine, there were 14 deaths among the…
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Cullen Jones helps South Florida kids swim safe
According to a study by USA Swimming, 60 to 70 percent of African-American and Hispanic children don’t know how to swim. Cullen Jones and USA Swimming are trying to do something about that, with the Make a Splash campaign. From NBCMiami.com via Diversity in Aquatics.
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Sri Lankan tsunami zone children learn to swim
Swim Lanka is a post-tsunami charity established to promote swimming in Sri Lanka, its initial aim to give coastal children the chance to overcome their fear of water and learn to swim. Many lives lost in the tsunami would have been saved if everyone had been able to swim. Most don’t know how. Read vcasa.net…
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Kenrick Monk ‘lucky to be alive’ after hit-and-run accident
The immediate future of Olympic swimmer Kenrick Monk is in jeopardy after the Brisbane-based star was knocked unconscious in a hit-and-run-accident while riding his push bike to training yesterday afternoon. X-rays have revealed two broken bones in his elbow and he will visit a specialist today to confirm the extent of his injuries. This only…
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Danish comedian explains Norwegian swimming safety rules
Danish comedian Anders Lund Madsen doing a funny routine here about the swimming safety rules posted on Norwegian beaches. Via boingboing.