Swimmer's Daily

  • It’s the beginning of pool season and officials are urging everyone to be safe.

    “It can happen in just a couple of seconds,” said Rural Metro Fire Battalion Chief, John Walka.

    Just this year, News 4 Tucson has reported on an elderly woman who drowned. In another incident, a toddler nearly drowned after officials say an adult supervising got distracted.

    “In these last two instances, it was adult supervision,” said Walka. “Where there was actually a break in that component that caused these incidents to happen.”

    He says it’s critical for the public to remember the ABC’s of swimming:

    A is for adult supervision.
    B is for barriers between you and the pool.
    C is for classes, whether it’s taking a CPR class or getting your child enrolled in swimming lessons.

    If you have a pool, make sure it’s fenced off and locked from public access. If you have children near the pool, look into fencing that can keep them from climbing in unsupervised.

    “So you got to think like a child and look around your yard and say, what is it that I could use as a step to get over that fence,” Walka said.

    According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the leading cause of death in children under the age of four.

    “Drowning is actually a silent event when a small child goes underwater.  There’s not a lot of screaming. There is not a lot of splashing,” said Walka. “It’s usually a very silent event because, at that point, the victim is struggling to get above water.”

    For more information on CPR classes, you can call your local Fire Department or click here. For more information on swimming lessons, click here. 

    See KVOA

  • Santa Barbara Police say a woman has died after suffering a medical emergency while swimming in the ocean on Sunday.

    Emergency crews were called to East Cabrillo Boulevard around 9:50 a.m.

    Police say when they arrived, bystanders were conducting CPR on the beach. When medics arrived, they were not able to revive her.

    Police say the woman is estimated to be in her late 40’s. Her identity has not been released.

    See KSBY and Noozhawk

  • Event organizer Dmitry Blokhin provided this compilation video of the preparations that were required to host the International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship and Ice Swimming Arctic Cup held in Semenovskoe Lake in Murmansk, Russia between March 15th – 17th 2019.

    See TDNOWS

  • With the British Swimming Championships 2019 firmly on the horizon, we caught up with Commonwealth champion Aimee Willmott to find out about the all-important prep for Glasgow, the Gwangju World Championships and beyond.

  • Less than 48 hours after breaking the world record for the deepest dive under ice, Kiwi free-diver Ant Williams has done it again.

    On Saturday (NZ time), Williams plunged 75m below the ice in northern Norway to beat the record he set on Thursday by five metres.

    He broke the previous record by five metres two days earlier, when he swam down 70m.

    “Today, I pushed deeper under the ice to reach 75m, surpassing my record from two days ago,” he posted on his Facebook page.

    See Newshub

    https://youtu.be/9nHCDueIRvQ

  • Daniel Floryan, a doctoral student in mechanical and aerospace engineering, employs experimental and computational methods to better explain how fish swim most effectively, which could lead to applications in humanmade propulsion systems. (Video by Nick Barberio, Office of Communications)

  • A local restaurant is paying tribute to San Diego swimmer, Florence Chadwick.

    The restaurant just opened on Monday and KUSI’s Allie Wagner checked it out live on Good Morning San Diego.

    Some fun facts about the restaurant, the land it is on used to belong to the Chadwick family. Florence Chadwick was the first person ever to swim the English Channel, both ways!

    Lastly, it is right off of Ted Williams Parkway, and Florence was personal friends with Williams and many other famous athletes.

    See KUSI NEWS

  • I started swimming when I was about 18 months old, because my mom can’t swim. So, my parents put us in swimming. I joined a local swim team, and I was good, I wasn’t great, but I liked to win, I was very competitive, and I made it my goal to go to the Olympics.

    My name is Janet Evans. I was an Olympic swimmer in the 1988, 1992, and 1996 Olympics. Winning a gold medal was the ultimate dream for an athlete like myself. So, in my total career I broke seven world records. It was a combination of working hard and having great coaches and having a great family to support me.

    Water is my safe place, it’s my therapy, it’s my meditation. I’m happiest in the water. I have a curve in my back, I have scoliosis as I always have, and swimming really elongates that. It’s a non-impact sport, and it’s such a great sport for your body.

    I don’t have time to swim every day, which is kind of my physical therapy for my back. So, having a hot tub in our backyard is perfect for me, I can go get some hydrotherapy on my back. Because my back hurts at the end of the day and for me it’s like this peaceful soak in warm water. The water stretches me out, I can work on stretching my back out the jets in the hot tub, I can make them so they’re specifically on my back where I have pain at the end of the day.

    I wake up in the morning, my back feels better. It’s not as stiff, it’s a little more stretched out and linked and elongated.

  • Professional free diver Ant Williams broke the record for the deepest dive under ice, reaching a depth of 70 metres.

    See ABC

    https://youtu.be/9nHCDueIRvQ