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Category: Safety

  • I should have been a Newport lifeguard

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    When thinking about career options with high salaries, lifeguarding is probably not one of the first jobs to come to mind. But it apparently should. In Newport Beach, lifeguards are compensated well, when compared, say, to the county annual median household income is $71,735. Even excluding benefits like health care and pension, more than half…

  • Lee Memorial on drowning prevention

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    Informative video by the Lee Memorial Health System, advocating these layers of protection: Supervision (“water watchers”), pool gates, alarms and having an emergency plan. View More Health Matters video segments at leememorial.org/healthmatters/ Drowning Prevention from Lee Memorial Health System on Vimeo.

  • Highlights from the Fran Crippen SafeSwim Event

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    Todays edition of the Morning Swim Show featuring highlights from last weekend’s Fran Crippen SafeSwim event. Watch the full show in the video player below and visit SwimmingWorld.TV for more video interviews. Via SwimmingWorld Magazine.

  • High school coach resigns after pulling swimmer by her hair

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    Parents in Roseville, California are in an uproar after high school assistant swimming coach Geoff Capell tried to pull the captain of the school’s girls swimming team Jennifer McCarroll out of the pool by her hair during a swim meet last Friday. The action was caught on camera by the parent of another girl on…

  • ABC News speaks with Jakub Maly

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    “Did you ever think ‘I’m not going to get out of this alive’?” “Yeah, maybe after the first hour”

  • Olympic swim team member hospitalized after being buried in sand

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    19-year-old Austrian Olympic swimming team member Jakup Maly had spent much of Sunday digging a hole 2.1 meters deep by 1.8 meters wide on Pompano Beach in Florida, when the sand collapsed around him. It took 60 rescuers two hours to rescue him, where after he was taken to a hospital and later released. Read…

  • Swedish sports people reveal sexual abuse

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    Former high jump world champion Patrik Sjöberg revealed in his memoirs published earlier this week how his former coach and stepfather Viljo Nousiainen molested him from he was 11 years old until he about the age of 15 had “the body of a grown man”. This after also former high jumper Christian Skaar Thomassen told…

  • Girl killed by weight machine in Danish swimming pool

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    A 12-year-old girl died yesterday evening when a 2 meter high weight machine fell on top of her in the swimming pool Ringsted Svømmehal in Denmark. She was training with her swim team, doing some exercise on the floor when the tower tilted and fell on her head. A 12-year-old boy was also injured. Police…

  • Heart plungers keep air flowing better during CPR

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    The ResQPump works like a toilet plunger, but while decompressing it can draw air back into the lungs. The ResQPOD, cleared by the FDA in 2003, regulates airflow by creating suction in the chest, which draws blood up into the brain. A study led by Tom Aufderheide, professor of emergency medicine at the Medical College…