Swimmer's Daily

  • Three children have to take a flight from a remote Scottish island so they can learn to swim.

    Freyja Parnaby, six, Grace Parnaby, nine, and Lewis Wright-Stanners, nine, regularly travel from the Fair Isle to Shetland for their lessons.

    Each time they face the potential that their flight home may be cancelled due to adverse weather, leaving them stranded on the mainland.

    The children, from Fair Isle Primary School, take the 25-minute flight with their head teacher Ruth Stout, funded by the education department.

    Read The Irish News

  • A 20-year-old Florida woman discovered the health benefits of owning an Apple Watch when it indirectly saved her life as her flipped car was filling with water.

    Amanda Antonio told first responders in Hillsborough County, Fla., that she used her Apple Watch to locate her iPhone to call 9-1-1 after her car rolled in a ditch full of mud and water.

    “It’s up to my waist,” Antonio said according to a transcript of the call obtained by Spectrum Bay News 9, a television station covering the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. She later said, “It’s now up to my chin. I’m freezing. I’m so scared.”

    Antonio’s accident is yet another headline for the Apple Watch, which has been credited with detecting potentially fatal heart ailments with the ECG feature. The Apple Watch continues to be the best selling smartwatch, a device the public has been slow to embrace.

    Read Cult of Mac

    'Please hurry': 911 call reveals terrifying moments before woman is rescued from ditch off I-4

    Woman reunites with first responders, thanks them for rescuing her from SUV in water-filled ditch

    911 operator, woman trapped in car meet after dramatic rescue

    How Rescuers Found Woman Trapped in Mud With Seconds to Spare

  • By the standards of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, it was practically a day at the beach for participants in the 115th annual New Year’s Day dip in the ocean off New York City.

  • In this video, we interviewed Camille Cheng, a Hong Kong Olympic Swimmer who talks about her daily routine, struggles and success stories.

  • The waters in Vancouver’s English Bay can be as cold as 3 C on Jan. 1, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of people from getting into the water to mark the new year.

    On Tuesday, the Vancouver Park Board will host the 99th edition of its Polar Bear Swim.

    The first was held in 1920, when around 10 people gathered on English Bay beach and then went for a swim at a time of year when the water is at its coldest.

    Now, thousands run down the beach and splash their way into the water to mark the start of another year. Many dress up for the occasion.

    Read CBC

  • Canada’s swim team will go into Tokyo 2020 in a very different position then they went into Rio 2016 with. They now have world champions like Kylie Masse, Olympic champions like Penny Oleksiak, and names that carry real weight in the swimming world like Taylor Ruck. Mark Tewksbury explains the significance of the past four years and what he expects from Canadian swimming in 2020.

    Penny Oleksiak, Kylie Masse, And Swimming Canada At Tokyo 2020 | Mark Tewksbury

  • A Perth music producer is remembered as talented and warm-hearted, after he died in a New Year’s Day diving tragedy.

    Charlie Young, 26, was found unresponsive at a popular dive trail in Rockingham at midday but paramedics couldn’t revive him.

    Mr Young worked at Northbridge’s Crank Recording and colleague Lee Buddle said he could bring out the best in people.

    Read 9News

    https://youtu.be/6fO9tPQV1v8

  • An Irkutsk team of ice swimmers marked the start of 2019 by jogging and enjoying a freezing cold dip in Lake Baikal, Tuesday.

    https://youtu.be/CtItXaeF1xQ

  • Swimmers in Italy and the Netherlands have braved a New Year’s Day dip to welcome in 2019. . Report by Sarah Harper.