Swimmer's Daily

  • A teenage boy has been found dead at a popular swimming hole in Sydney’s west on Monday.

  • On this episode of Blue Wilderness, we’re back in Guadalupe, Mexico with Mark and the crew, and this time Mark is about to enter a self-propelled ocean cage (SPOC) to encounter Great White Sharks like never before! This adventure will be ANYTHING but ordinary!

  • The number of women across Scotland participating in basketball, football, hockey, aquatics, rugby and tennis clubs has risen by over 35 per cent over the past five years. […]

    More than 14,000 women now play football after numbers doubled over the past three years. Swimming also saw a 14 per cent rise with more than 14,000 regular participants.

    Read The Scotsman

  • Russia confirmed Friday that it will appeal its four-year Olympic ban for manipulating doping data.

    The Russian anti-doping agency, known as RUSADA, sent a formal letter disagreeing with the sanctions imposed earlier this month by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The case is now heading to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

    Next year’s Olympics in Tokyo will be the third consecutive edition of the games preceded by a legal battle over Russian doping issues.

     

  • Enjoy the highlights of the Women’s Water Polo Final between USA and Italy and the Olympic Summer Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and find out who claimed the gold medal!

  • A Naples mother is starting the new year with a commitment to keep your child from drowning. A new program with an unique approach to protect your children around water is coming to Southwest Florida.

  • Life Saving Victoria has introduced a new swimming program to help people from overseas about water safety.

  • Some of us look at a frozen lake and see an inky blackness that should be avoided at all costs. But there are others who look at that layer of ice and see an opportunity to explore an obscure world, both in the lake and within themselves.

    After cutting a hole into the surface, these freedivers lower themselves into the darkness of the waters below, and with just one breath in their lungs, they dive; pushing their bodies and minds to blissful extremes as they float under a frozen ceiling.

    Surely, there has to be a pay off to doing something this extreme. Let’s dive in with them and see what drives them to these waters, shall we?

    See Ever Widening Circles

  • A British evangelical pastor and his two children have been named as the victims of the pool tragedy in the Costa del Sol, as their family revealed they could not swim.

    Gabriel Diya, 52, and his son Praise-Emmanuel Diya, 16, are thought to have died as they tried to rescue Comfort Diya, nine, from a resort pool on Christmas Eve.

    The horrifying scenes were witnessed by the children’s mother, Olubunmi, 49, and sibling Favour, 14, who had been in the water with her sister moments earlier.

    The surviving family are believed to have told Spanish police that their relatives did not know how to swim, except for Comfort, who had “some idea”.

    Mr Diya was a respected pastor who led Open Heavens London, an evangelical place of worship in Erith, south-east London, which claims to part of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, founded in Nigeria.

    A witness described how Mr Diya’s wife stayed calm and prayed while CPR was performed on her husband and children.

    It is believed the children attended school in the capital, but Praise-Emmanuel travelled on a US passport as the family visited the Club La Costa World resort near Fuengirola.

    Spanish police have since allowed the swimming pool to reopen, despite fears the pump system may have trapped the three victims in the water.

    Read for instance The Telegraph and The Express