This video explains how to escape when caught in a rip current. By swimming to the side a victim can escape the deep channel of the rip current to shallower safer water.
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Michael Phelps Photobombs NBC Bay Area News Crew
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A run-of-the-mill local news shoot at a Silicon Valley swim meet became an opportunity for the most decorated Olympian of all-time to photobomb a friend.
Michael Phelps photobombed NBC Bay Area’s interview with fellow Olympian Allison Schmitt.
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Team GB swimmer Grant Turner confirms retirement
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The 25-year-old won relay silver at the Commonwealth Games in 2010 and represented Team GB at London 2012.
But he revealed last month that he was considering quitting after failing to make the 39-strong team for this summer’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
Turner announced his decision on his Twitter account on Friday, saying: “Very excited today to announce my retirement from competitive swimming.”
Very excited today to announce my retirement from competitive swimming. It's been an unbelievable journey and one that I'm very proud of…
— Grant Turner (@MrGrantTurner) June 20, 2014
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Libby Trickett reveals she is confronting the transformation from sculpted athlete to a female figure
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The four-time Olympic gold medallist, who retired last year, was renowned for having one of the most chiselled physiques in sport.
Trickett’s impressive frame led to hurtful and unsubstantiated drug rumours in 2006 and now she wants to help women Ânationwide embrace their bodies.
“I wasn’t a woman, I was an athlete,†she said.
“I am confronting my expectations. My body helped me become one of the best swimmers in the world. Now I’m learning to love the Âwobbly bits.
“I now have an appreciation for the feminine features of my body.â€
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Swimming in Style: The $250 Bathing Suit
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Vilebrequin’s Brian Lange discusses the company’s premium men’s swimwear with Pimm Fox on “Taking Stock.”
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Katie Ledecky 15:34.23 and World Record in the 1500 free
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The American distance star just keeps on dropping jaws as NCAP’s Katie Ledecky smashed her own world record in the women’s 1500-meter free with a sizzling time of 15:34.23.
Ledecky’s effort crushed her previous mark of 15:36.53 set at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, and provides a potentially scary time to come this summer as she starts to hit her taper meets.Katie Ledecky set new world record in 1500 Free! 15:34.23 #TWSTInvite14 pic.twitter.com/X47wlHEs3o
— Woodlands Swimming (@swimTWST) June 19, 2014
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Teaching young kids to swim can save their lives
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Emergency workers says it’s never too early to teach children how to swim.
Parents should also learn basic swimming safety so they can protect their kids.
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Mother works for swim safety after her two children drown
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It’s been a mission Barbara Jeff has been on for three years: making sure children learn to swim and that money won’t be a barrier in getting them lessons. Her two boys, Cameron and Bryce, drowned in 2011 in a neighbor’s pool. Sadly, Barbara has learned since then nine children drown every day in the U.S. and a surprising number don’t know how to swim.
She says, “And also, I know there’s a lot of children who have the misconception of thinking they can swim because they can get in the water but can’t swim in deep water.”
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Amy Van Dyken ‘Going to Get Through It’
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The six-time Olympic Gold medalist swimmer who severed her spinal cord in an ATV crash says the surgeon told her to say her goodbyes to her husband after the crash.
“There’s a good chance I wasn’t going to make it out of surgery,†Amy Van Dyken-Rouen said Wednesday. “I looked at my husband and basically said, ‘I love you, goodbye, please continue on with your life.’â€
Her husband, former Denver Broncos punter Tom Rouen, said her injuries were so severe that he was telling her to go on, if she needed to.
“She was saying, ‘Hey, if I don’t make it I want you to move on,’ but I was saying, ‘Hey, if it’s too much and you have to go, then go.’”
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