Category: Safety
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Fall River pool so murky that they didn’t see the body on the bottom?
Investigators of the drowning accident last week admit that the water was so murky, that the Veteran’s Memorial Swimming Pool shouldn’t have been opened. 36-year-old Marie Joseph drowned after using a water slide there, but wasn’t found until she surfaced again two days later, even though the pool remained open and used by dozens of…
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How to spot symptoms of dry and delayed drowning
Swallowing even a small amount of water into your lungs is serious, children have been known to have died up to 24 hours after getting water into their system. There might be some differentiation between ‘dry’ and ‘delayed’ drowning, but the symptoms are in both cases tiredness, coughing, paleness, and trouble with breathing, and the…
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Missing woman DID drown in the pool 2 days before
I must confess, this story is so far out that I catch myself checking and re-checking that I’m not reading The Onion or something like that. The Haitian woman who was found floating in a public Fall River pool on Tuesday, apparently did drown in the pool on Sunday, with a boy noticing her going…
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Scottish Swimming: Everyone Can Swim !
Nice video, excellent mission :-) Scottish Swimming from 29studios on Vimeo.
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Woman’s body goes unnoticed for 2 days in public-run pool ?!?
This is crazy, 36-year-old Marie Joseph had not been seen since Sunday, when youngsters who jumped over a fence Tuesday night for a clandestine swim found her body floating in the Fall River Veterans Memorial Pool. Via ctv.ca
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Michael Phelps celebrates Olympic Day with TODAY
Talking about his foundation, making headlines when he looses, and other things.
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Simple swimming techniques can prevent tragedy
Via abc-7.com: As of Thursday, there are no more water activities at the FGCU lake until further notice after this student drowned Wednesday night. It was a tragic ending for Joel Johnson. Infant swimming resource instructor Kathy Cole says this could have been avoided if Johnson knew the life saving techniques she teachers her students.…
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40 percent of children who drown do so in “kiddie pools”
Scary stuff, researchers for the online journal Pediatrics report nearly 40 percent of the 209 children who drowned from 2001 to 2009 in the USA did so in small, inflatable “kiddie pools”. The majority (94%) involved children younger than 5 years, 73% occurred in the child’s own yard and 81% occurred during the summer months.…