A swimming instructor has been arrested, accused of molesting two 6-year-olds during swim class.
Francisco De Aragon, 26, was arrested Wednesday and is facing charges of sexual assault and lewd and lascivious behavior on a victim less than 12-years-old.
De Aragon was in bond court Thursday. The judge ordered that he be held on no bond.
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Dutch European 10km Open Water Champion, Sharon van Rouwendaal talks about her decision to swim both pool and open water events. Sharon also talks about her approach to both and her plans for Kazan.
Everyone’s probably seen or done it at least once at the pool: the “hey watch this!” trick, such as when two New York City men first took a series of fast, deep breaths, then held their breath underwater in 2011. Both drowned.
It’s not unusual, the New York City health officials report.
They call it “dangerous underwater breath-holding behavior” or DUBB for short. Other people may call it just plain dumb, but in fact most of the cases involved serious training. The victims may not have realized just how much danger they were putting themselves in.
She is recovering from shoulder surgery but Olympic swimmer Belinda Hocking says she will be back in the pool to vie for a spot at next year’s Olympic Games in Rio – which if she qualifies, will be her last.
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As California finally holds a statewide high-school swim meet, elite swimmers face a dilemma: whether to compete for their school or focus on bigger things
James Magnussen is to seek a second opinion after being advised to rest his injured shoulder less than three months before he defends his 100 metre freestyle title at the world swimming championships, the Australian reported on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old, who will be gunning for a third successive gold in the blue riband event in Russia in August, was given the advice by a consultant after tearing a muscle under his left shoulder blade.
His coach, Mitch Falvey, told the newspaper Magnussen would probably be forced to skip Mare Nostrum races in Canet-en-Roussillon and Monaco next month.
“Anything he does at racing intensity aggravates it,” he said.
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A man got the scare of his life when a curious killer whale swam up to his paddle board and had a nibble. The board fortunately didn’t taste like food and the man did not have the appearance of a Sea World handler, so the whale let it slide.
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Sometimes a step backwards can be beneficial in moving moving forward again… well, this is hopefully applicable to 2012 London Olympics swimmer, Karin Prinsloo.
That’s why Pretoria based Prinsloo is not too worried about missing the World Swimming Championships in Russia later this year.
‘It would have been nice to compete at World Championships, but because of a back injury and having my tonsils removed as well I missed out on many hours of quality training. I considered competing at the Mare Nostrum Series in Monaco in an effort to qualify for Worlds, but then decided against it,’ Prinsloo said.
‘If I had qualified, my training program would have been disrupted. I would have had to do a build-up for Monaco and then I would have had to taper down before the World Championships. Now I can focus only on getting racing fit for the next season.
‘I have started to do some gym training this week to strengthen my body. It is the first time in 18 months that I am back in the gym. I would not have been able to do so if I were going to compete at the World Championships.’
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Rip currents can often be seen from the beach as a cloudy stretch of water in between areas of high wave action.
The other current is called a structural current. These currents occur along break walls and the many concrete piers along the shoreline. They form when high waves throw water against the structures. That water has no where to go but further out into the lake.
“They can be pretty fast and some of the measurements that they’ve done recently have been twice faster than Michael Phelps can swim,” Dodson said.
The best way to keep yourself and others safe from these currents is to stay dry when waves are high — and steer clear of the pier. But sometimes we don’t realize how dangerous a situation is until we’re in it.
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