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The Long Swim: Glowstick on Speedos
Lewis Pugh, oceans campaigner and endurance athlete, continues his ‘unrelenting’ mission through the dark sea.
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Crocodile caught on camera using swim noodle to cross canal
A photo posted to Instagram earlier this month is creating a stir in Key Largo, Florida.
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The Best Wild Swimming in Wales
Wales in the summer involves a lot more swimming than wales in the winter.
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Man drowns in pool trying to teach himself to swim: Peel police
Peel Regional police say a man has drowned at his apartment building pool in Mississauga, Ont., while teaching himself to swim.
A police spokesperson told Global News officers were called to Queen Frederica Drive with reports of a drowning around 4 p.m.
The spokesperson said paramedics transported a 29-year-old man to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The victim’s little brother went to the building’s pool to check on him around 3 p.m. and found him without vital signs.
Officers said it appears from surveillance video in the facility that the 29-year-old slipped in the deep end and failed to resurface.
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Police have reviewed surveillance footage which shows the man going into the deep end and never resurfacing. The victim was in the pool for a couple hours before being found by family. Officers now holding the scene, coroner en route. #Mississauga https://t.co/Topbn0lzOX
— Jeremy Cohn (@JeremyGlobalTV) August 19, 2018
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Ill health forces Dutch Olympian Maarten van der Weijden to halt long-distance swim
Maarten van der Weijden beat leukemia and went on to win an Olympic gold swimming medal in Beijing, but even his powers of endurance weren’t enough to complete his latest challenge.
Ill health on Monday forced van der Weijden to halt his ambitious bid to swim the 200-kilometer (124-mile) route of an iconic speedskating race in the northern Netherlands, bringing to a premature end a fund-raising feat that had enthralled his home nation.
Van der Weijden had swum 163 kilometers (101 miles) since plunging into a canal in the northern city of Leeuwarden early Saturday morning.
Wearing an orange-and-black wetsuit and swimming a slow freestyle, the 37-year-old swimmer was cheered on by thousands of supporters lining river banks over the weekend. Tractors drove alongside him at night to illuminate the water, and he was hoisted over canal locks by cranes.
He was attempting to swim along canals and rivers linking 11 towns in the northern province of Friesland that are used for a speedskating race in the years when cold winters freeze the entire route. The last such race was in 1997.
Supporters unable to get to Friesland followed his progress on a live stream by national broadcaster NOS.
Yet in a post on his official website, van der Weijden’s team wrote Monday that a doctor who checked him considered it “irresponsible” to continue. The swimmer was suffering from an imbalance of salt and was unable to keep down any medicine due to nausea, according to his site. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital for checks.
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YMCA holds swim safety event
YMCA holds swim safety event
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Woman survives 10 hours in open water after cruise ship fall
A British woman fell from the deck of a cruise ship and spent a harrowing 10 hours in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Croatia before being rescued on Saturday.
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Blue-green algae can be deadly for dogs swimming in lakes | Your Morning
Here’s what pet owners need to know to keep their dogs safe.
https://youtu.be/XcXTsG7Uvjs
Photo by Bobby McKay.
