Dogs are allowed to join Greenwood Park’s last swim of the season. The outdoor Leslieville pool allowed the fury friends to join the fun on its last day of operation on Sunday.
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Ocean City Beach Patrol Working To Protect Swimmers From Rough Waters
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Swimming in the Danube
We take the bikes, meet up with friends and dive into the Danube in Vienna.
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Rescue swimmer recalls seeing 2 children in Tupperware container
First responders from across the country came to Houston to help rescue people from rising floodwaters, including a coast guard team from Massachusetts involved in one of the most dramatic stories from the storm.
One rescue swimmer said he’ll never forget a woman giving him a Tupperware container.
He thought it was luggage and told her the chopper couldn’t carry it, but he couldn’t believe what happened next.
“She was like, ‘My baby’s in there!’ The top was snapped down, so I didn’t know what she was talking about. I said ‘What are you talking about?’ So I opened it and there was this 2-year-old holding an infant inside like not screaming or crying or anything, just big eyes looking at me like ‘What’s up, man?’ So that was like pretty incredible,” Brendan Kiley said.
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Would Bill English really swim in the Oreti River now?
The National leader says he would swim in the river, one of the South Island’s largest. Ian Telfer went to check it out.
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A decade after cleanup, Halifax residents reluctant to swim in once-polluted harbour
Nova Scotia may be known as Canada’s Ocean Playground, but the moniker hardly applies to Halifax harbour.
Almost 10 years after the city spent $333 million to clean up its massive, infamously polluted harbour, the two public beaches near its downtown remain strangely quiet — even on hot, sunny days.
Despite monitoring that shows the crystal-clear saltwater is fit to swim in, the city decided this year not to post lifeguards at the Black Rock and Dingle beaches, saying there were so few swimmers last year it didn’t make sense to hire rescuers.
“There hasn’t been an appetite for swimming,†city spokesperson Nick Ritcey says.
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Marine Officers work to protect swimmers, boaters
Marine Officers work to protect swimmers and boaters on Labor Day.
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1500 Meters for Mike 2017
On September 16, 2017 the swimming community of the tri-state area will come together again at Belmar Beach, NJ in the largest open swim on the New Jersey Coast to honor the memory of a fellow swimmer, The College of New Jersey’s Michael Heaney and support victims of Traumatic Brain Injury by swimming 1500 Meters for Mike.
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Swimmers see shark feeding frenzy from the inside
Snorkelers in Belize flock to a shark and stingray sanctuary called Shark Ray Alley. They are given the rare opportunity to swim among a large group of hungry nurse sharks. These 10 foot beasts appear ferocious but they are really gentle and curious and they will allow swimmers to join them as they compete for scraps of fish that are dropped from the boat. Although they are capable of biting, like any shark, their mouths are not designed for the same kind of flesh ripping and tearing as some of their more aggressive cousins. These sharks have skin that feels like sandpaper and they bump the swimmers and push past them in their hurry to get the scraps. The swimmers are careful to keep their hands away from the sharks’ mouth and they wear wetsuits if they expect to be in close to the action. Although perfectly safe, being so close to dozens of big and hungry sharks is a very exhilarating experience.