Swimmer's Daily

  • May is national water safety month and one of the best ways to stay safe around water is learning how to swim. Jumping into the deep end may not seem like a good idea for an infant, but with parent-child swim classes, an early start is key. Liz Walker, owner of SwimKids says, Children are born loving the water and if you handle it right that can continue onto a lifetime of love for the water.

  • Bystanders on a Hutchinson Island beach jumped in to save a drowning young man they say was caught in the rip current on Monday.

  • Since it began in 2013, over 6,000 children have taken part in Swim Safe schemes, a partnership programme between the Amateur Swimming Assocation (ASA) and the RNLI. While swimming in a pool is a great way of building confidence and technique, open water swimming comes with its own challenges and dangers. They receive the RNLI Partnerships Award at the 2015 Annual Presentation of Awards at London’s Barbican Centre. More: http://bit.ly/1FzSkdx

  • Five thousand people from around China have swum across the Yellow River to promote sports.

  • How amazing would it be to spend time splashing around with some of the sea’s friendliest creatures?

    One diver got to live the dream of many by getting up close and personal with a huge sea lion colony just off the coast of Mexico’s Isla Santa Margarita and, as the video shows, the cute pups seemed more than happy to see her.

    The sea lions seemed keen to take a closer look at the camera which captured the incredible footage, with a couple of them even mistaking it for a tasty meal.

  • WKYT News at 5:30 PM 05-22-2015

  • “My friends jumped and I jumped with them and I almost…” 10-year-old Gabriela tried to explain the time she almost drowned. “It was deep and I didn’t know how to swim.”

    It was just a few years ago she jumped into a river with her friends. The only problem? She didn’t know how to swim. Her mother remembers running into the river to rescue her.

    “She started freaking out and I just had to jump,” said Holyoke resident Dailly Martinez. “She almost drowned so I said wait this is not for fun anymore this is serious stuff.”

    Right after that, Dailly signed her daughter up for swimming lessons at the Holyoke YMCA. Swimming instructors recommend parents start getting their kids in the water as early as three months.

    “We teach them how to float, how to just walk around the water and be comfortable with it so they’re not freaking out because that’s really how they can hurt themselves in the water,” said swim coach Kevin Morton, who also instructs swim lessons at the Holyoke YMCA.

    See WWLP

  • A Memorial Day outing on the water turned tragic in Butte County. A young man drowned on his 21st birthday after reportedly trying to swim across a pond while carrying a ten pound rock.

    According to the Oroville CHP, 21-year-old Austin Harr of Gridley drowned while swimming at the Gridley Plunge, in the Oroville Wildlife Area. The area is at the dredger ponds off Palm Avenue.

    Witnesses told officials Harr was holding a the large rock while trying to swim across the pond.

    He disappeared in the water and did not emerge.

    His body was found about 40 minutes later, around 5:50 p.m.

    Read KRCR and see Action News Now

  • Park Tae-hwan, Olympic swimming champ currently on a doping suspension, will resume training at a public pool in Seoul, officials said Wednesday.

    Park will train with his old coach Roh Min-sang at the Olympic Swimming Pool starting June 1, the arena’s operators said.

    In March, Park, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 400-meter freestyle, received an 18-month ban from FINA, the international swimming governing body, after testing positive for testosterone the previous fall.

    Under FINA’s anti-doping policy, Park isn’t permitted to train at facilities operated by the government or the Korea Swimming Federation (KSF).

    However, he is free to train on his own at other public pools, and the swimmer had been trying to join Roh’s class at the Olympic Swimming Pool since earlier this month.

    Read The Korea Observer

    Photo by KOREA.NET – Official page of the Republic of Korea