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    Eamon Sullivan aims to have one last crack at Olympic gold at 2016 Rio Olympics before he calls it quits, with the three-time Olympian currently preparing for the Glasgow Commonwealth games.

  • See The Washington Post

    For the ensuing eight hours and 45 minutes, Pumphrey, 26, would fight fatigue and nausea in the water, pain in her back and, perhaps most difficult, the mental strain of trying to propel herself across the river and back. When she finished, she said, she stood on the beach and cried.

    “It was the most epic experience of my life,” she said. “There was just so much stress and coordination and patience and [it was an] emotional roller coaster.”

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    The Elmen Center offers the “Learn to Swim” program for children. While they have spots available for the sessions, enrollment has been steady with families wanting to teach their children how to swim.

    “We have parents call all the time — especially in the summer — just so their kids can learn the basic safe water skills,” Learn to Swim Coordinator Sherry Olson said. “They know if they go out to the lake all the time or if they fall off the boat, they will feel confident and comfortable in the water.” Each session is two weeks long.

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    With summer here, more of us are looking to cool off by getting in the water.

    The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta says minorities are most at risk for drowning.

    One Albany group is helping to bridge that gap by teaching all kids how to swim. Drowning is the number one cause of death for toddlers.

    Nearly 80% of teens and adults who drown are males, and African Americans are more likely not to know how to swim.

    “It’s not that they can’t swim they just need the opportunity to learn to swim.” said Boys and Girls Club Pool Manager Bobby Savage.

    WALB.com, Albany News, Weather, Sports

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    Consider this a friendly reminder for any wedding photographers who haven’t already heard it or maybe even forgot the tip when we shared it almost exactly a year ago.

    http://youtu.be/oaHi82yRjaw

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    A Gulfport resident got a big surprise in backyard on Monday when she found a gator in her swimming pool.

    Officials say the 5-foot-alligator that took up a residence in a backyard swimming pool is on its way to a new home and Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks officials plucked it from the water.

    Resident Pam Jones said she opened her back door to let out her dog when she spotted the alligator in the pool. The animal was swimming around, then climbed out to sun itself at poolside.

    WJTV News Channel 12

  • See WAFB

    Swimming lessons have started at the YMCA off Howell Road. Head Start kids were learning the basics. The first lesson was jumping in the pool. What’s unique about this swim program is it’s free. The program is fully funded by Exxon Mobil. Executive Director Ron Smith said these are very important lessons for kids in North Baton Rouge.

    “We live in a community where there is an abundance of children who don’t have the basic ability to feel safe around water,” said Smith. “Swimming has not been their main strengths.”

    WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge, Louisiana News, Weather, Sports

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    A sheriff’s deputy who swam out into the surf to help a 14-year-old boy caught in a rip current was in critical condition after 45 minutes in the water but is expected to recover, the Curry County Sheriff’s Office said.

    “He basically saved that boy’s life,” Sheriff John Bishop told the Curry Coastal Pilot newspaper.

    http://youtu.be/lHmm36gyzJ8

  • See Open Culture

    The Stories of John Cheever, a collection of 61 stories chronicling the lives of “the greatest generation,” was first published in 1978 with much fanfare. The critics liked it. The weighty, 700-page book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1979. The people liked it too. […]

    The collection features some of Cheever’s best-known stories: “The Enormous Radio,” “Goodbye, My Brother,” “The Five-Forty-Eight,” and “The Country Husband.” And also perhaps his most famous short piece of fiction, “The Swimmer.”