Swimmer's Daily

  • The New Coral Pool at The Coral at Atlantis features poolside cabanas and a swim-up bar

  • Watch live action from day 1 of the finals of the #ScotNSC17 from the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh.

  • This past June, the Beautiful Destinations team ventured to Iceland and met up with the inspirational Kiki Bosch. We followed her through the frozen waters of the Glacier Lagoon, capturing her emotions, and learning the importance of determination. She openly and courageously discussed past trauma and how she learned to reconnect with herself through free diving in extreme conditions.

  • Meet Olive and her mom Karen, as they tell us the story of Olive learning to swim here at the YMCA. Every year thousands of kids learn how to be safe around the water and avoid the tragedy of drowning with the help of our Y swim instructors. Check us out at ymcafoothills.org/swim-lessons

  • Michael Andrew is an athletic phenom, famous for breaking the most National Age Group Records in USA Swimming history. He’s the youngest swimmer ever to turn pro, doing so at the age of 14.

  • A professor at Stanford is in hot water after she tweeted a link to a song that promotes violence against convicted rapist Brock Turner. Devin Fehely reports. (12-7-17)

  • A woman who suffered a spinal injury as a teen received a multi-million-dollar award in a case revisiting the decades-old debate about starting blocks and water depth.

    It also serves as a wake-up call to those who own aging facilities, reminding them that grandfather clauses might not hold up in court.

    In October, jurors held the University of Regina, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, negligent in a diving accident that rendered Miranda Biletski paraplegic. She was 16 at the time and an aspiring Olympic swimmer. She trained with the Regina Piranhas Swim Club, which rented the pool from the university. In 2005, Biletski was practicing her diving starts when she struck her head on the bottom of the pool, fracturing her C6 vertebrae.

    Biletski alleged that the school was at fault, claiming there wasn’t enough water in the pool and that it didn’t meet code.

    Attempts to settle out of court failed, and Biletski became too consumed with a new passion — wheelchair rugby — to pursue damages through civil court until well into adulthood. (A Paralympian, Biletski was the first woman on Canada’s wheechair rugby team during the 2016 Summer Olympics.)

    The trial finally began in September. The jury heard testimonies about how shallow is tooshallow.

    Read Aquatics International

  • Five-time Olympic swimmer Dana Torres on the Russian ban from the Winter Olympics over doping and safety concerns for U.S. athletes competing in South Korea.

  • The Shubenacadie Canal waterway spans 114km and goes through the heart of Nova Scotia. One swimmer wanted to become the first person to swim the whole waterway and experience the history, beauty, obstacles along the way.