Swimmer's Daily

  • Donna Nelson, who son drowned in 2015, is training to undertake her biggest challenge yet by getting back in the water for the first time since his death.

  • Sandy Arbino noticed something odd when she looked outside Thursday morning. When she opened the door to look closer, she saw an animal swimming in circles.

    “I looked out my back door and noticed my pool cover was inside my pool and all of the sudden, I see something swimming around. I didn’t know what it was. I opened up the door and it was a deer,” Arbino recalled. “It kept trying to get out, but it was just so tired it couldn’t get out.”

    Arbino has seen other animals in her pool before, but a deer was a first.

    “Ducks will come and they’ll swim around in the cover, but that’s it,” Arbino said. The deer could only swim in circles since it was apparently too short to touch the floor of the pool. Arbino wasn’t sure what to do, so she called the Deer Park-Silverton Joint Fire District.

    “The deer was swimming around the pool. It couldn’t really couldn’t touch the bottom,” said Chief Denny Meador. “You could tell it was a little bit scared. It had been in there for a while. It looked really tired.”

    Meador and his crew spent about 15 minutes trying to get the deer out of the water. One firefighter tried to encourage the deer to move toward a set of steps by using a skimmer net. That didn’t work, so they decided to use the pool cover to save the deer.

    “We actually got the deer to get itself tangled into the tarp, and with the crew that we had, we were able to pull the deer out, got him on the ground. We used some towels to kind of try to dry him off,” Meador said.

  • Daniel Keller explains his thoughts and feelings about the swim team, that contains swimmers from Titans and Monarchs high schools.

  • World champion swimmer and brand ambassador Ryan Murphy meets Goldfish Swim School mascot Bubbles!

  • Mechanicsburg swimmer James Wetherhold loves engineering, specifically aviation. He also has plans to obtain his pilot’s license.

  • Make a splash on race day with a little cross-training.

  • Scott Rice and his team at Quantum Events have been creating and operating ocean swimming events for over 15 years, including the 7-event Banana Boat New Zealand Ocean Swim Series.

    Inspired by stunning scenery, exceptional swimming conditions and world-class hospitality, Ocean Swim Fiji first launched in 2018 and has grown year on year, now heading into its third swimcation in 2020. Fine-tuning the perfect balance of challenging yet rewarding ocean swims, incredible relaxation and a touch of local Fijian culture, Scott and his team are dedicated to quality, safety and delivering unforgettable experiences.

    Now an aspirational fixture on the calendar for avid open water swimmers around the globe, Ocean Swim Fiji sold out in it’s first two years.

    https://oceanswimfiji.com/

  • Officials said a pipe break resulted in an unpermitted discharge in the area of 7000 Island Blvd with discharge to Little Maule Lake and adjacent water bodies.