Category: Safety
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NSW Lifeguards Are Urging Swimmers to Take Care at Beaches
Lifesavers are pleading with swimmers in New South Wales to take care at beaches as over a thousand rescues have been made since Christmas. Australians have traveled in great numbers to the coast during the School Holidays putting extra stress on lifesavers.
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Swim Lessons in Honor of Malik Ramirez | WMFY News 2
A Greensboro mother is taking action to teach kids to swim. Her son, 15-year-old Malik Ramirez, was a student at Page High School when he drowned in a private lake. He was swimming with two other students when he went under. His mother told said, Malik never learned to swim. See WMFY News 2
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Melbourne’s Dangerous Summer on the Water Takes Another Tragic Turn | 7NEWS
A rescue mission is underway to find a missing swimmer, feared drowned in the Yarra River. The 39-year-old man disappeared on a day out with friends in Melbourne’s north-east.
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Parents of an 18-Year-Old Who Drowned off Mission Beach Said San Diego Lifeguards Failed to Prevent His Death | CBS 8 San Diego
Parents of Woodlain Zachee filed a legal claim against the city of San Diego, alleging city lifeguards were understaffed and failed to warn swimmers of dangers. See CBS 8
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Peyton Hillis on the Road to Recovery After Swimming Accident | NBC Sports
Former NFL player Peyton Hillis has been hospitalized for the last week after a swimming accident, but he is showing improvement. Hillis’s girlfriend, Angela Cole, wrote on Instagram that Hillis went into the water to save his children from drowning. Hillis was in intensive care and on a ventilator but now doing well enough that he no…
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Swimmers Warned to Be Careful After Spate of Beach Drownings | | 7.30 | ABC News (Australia)
After years of COVID disruptions, bushfires, and floods, plenty of Australians have been hitting the beach this summer and enjoying the water. But surf life savers say they’ve made thousands of rescues in a matter of weeks, with most drownings occurring at unpatrolled beaches. This report from Hannah Bowers and Emily Jane Smith.
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A Grandma Learns to Swim | Float | The New Yorker Documentary
Before she dies, the 82-year-old Bubbe wants to learn how to swim, as chronicled in a short documentary by her granddaughter, Azza Cohen.
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Water Polo Coach Teaches Underserved Students How to Swim | CBS 8 San Diego
Generations of goodwill are colliding at the Jackie Robinson Family YMCA. In this Zevely Zone, I caught up with a Coronado water polo coach who is helping underserved students thousands of miles apart. Last August, I introduced you to Asante Sefa-Boakye. The Coronado water polo coach introduced the sport he loves to the people of Ghana.…
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Swim Safety Advocate Laurie Lawrence Calls for Better Swimming Lessons in Queensland | 7NEWS
Of the 84 people who drowned in Queensland in the year to June 2022, 16 were under 17. It’s prompted swim safety campaigner Laurie Lawrence to call for swimming lessons in Queensland schools to be overhauled. “Water safety is not a wet session … a lot of the schools are getting around saying they’re doing…