Swimmer's Daily

  • Lifeguards put out double red flags near Pier 60 in Clearwater on Tuesday morning warning swimmers not to enter the water.

    Swimming conditions improve on Clearwater Beach

  • A northern California judge faces outrage over a former college swimmer’s six-month sentence in a sexual assault case at Stanford University. The attack was stopped by two grad students who happened to ride by on bicycles. John Blackstone reports on how they found Brock Turner and the victim and what they told the authorities.

    https://youtu.be/I9MN5crqADU

    https://youtu.be/A9OR7A68i_A

  • London school students who were trapped on a beach in Kent were rescued by helicopter and lifeboats after they used their mobile phones as beacons.

    The 34 teenagers and two adults were rescued and taken to safety after they got lost and became disoriented during a coastal walk between St Margaret’s Bay and Dover Harbour.

    In a video released by the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, the students can be seen waving through a night-vision camera.

    See Mashable

    Thirty six people rescued after getting lost on coastal walk

  • Police are looking for Ceazar Kainz who has been declared a missing person

    Barton Creek Greenbelt swimmer disappeared while swimming

  • With the Rio Olympics just a few days away, PNG Swimming sensation, Ryan Pini is gearing up to take part in the event.

    PNG Swimmer, Ryan Pini Ready for Rio Olympics

  • A member of the Sherrills Ford-Terrell Fire and Rescue’s dive team was killed Monday afternoon as he and two other divers searched for a swimmer who had gone missing a day earlier.

    Authorities identified the diver as Bradley Long, 28. They haven’t said what led to the diver’s death or to the injury of the two other divers who had trouble in murky water between 50 and 80 feet deep. The injured divers surfaced on their own.

    Divers recovered the body of the swimmer, whose name was not released, according to Rick Davis, the Sherrills Ford-Terrell fire chief.

    See The Charlotte Observer

    Diver drowns at Lake Norman

  • CNN legal analysts Danny Cevallos and Joey Jackson discuss the six month sentence handed out by a court to Brock Turner who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on the Stanford University campus.

  • He’s claiming he never raped her, but was only hooking up with her.

  • At Brock Allen Turner’s sentencing, the woman he sexually assaulted read a letter to him about how severely the incident impacted her mental well-being. CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield reads excerpts of the letter aloud. Turner was sentenced to six months in jail.

    Stanford rape survivor's letter to her attacker

    https://youtu.be/gTMZOP1AsGc