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High water is slowing the efforts to find a missing man who leapt into the St. Croix River to save his nephew, but officials say the unfortunate ordeal is an opportunity to raise awareness about how dangerous fast-flowing waters can be.
Calvin Vang, 11, was rescued by a Good Samaritan who jumped from a 30-foot cliff after hearing his cries. He had been fishing with his uncle, 21-year-old Touhu Vang, when he slipped and fell in. […]
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You can now pick up free swim passes for your kids to use at the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County pools.
It’s part of the Ditch the Ditches program and this year it’s getting a new look and mascots.
The program is also handing out more than 50,000 free swim passes with the goal of keeping kids out of drainage ditches that can turn deadly if a flash flood hits.
“It’s a good program,†said Michael Barth. “It’s been around since I was a kid.â€
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An intoxicated 40-year-old swimmer pushed her luck by splashing a county marine patrol officer, then ran out of luck by biting him, an arrest report states.
Sheriff’s deputies on marine patrol at the Silver Glen Run near Astor said they spotted Amy Allen swimming in a boating lane with a pool float toy at about 6:15 p.m. Saturday. An arrest affidavit said the Odessa woman asked if she could climb aboard the marked patrol boat.
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The former assistant coach at a Hanover County swim club was found guilty Tuesday in Hanover Circuit Court of sex-related offenses against a juvenile swimmer that he’d known since her early childhood.
Tucker E. Smith, 24, faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced Sept. 29.
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Concern is growing that more could have been done to prevent a child’s drowning in a Balch Springs pond last week.
Tamia Johnson, 9, drowned on May 18 while swimming in a retention pond at the new Walter E. Luedeke Park, located in the 3200 block of Hickory Creek Road.
“I don’t understand why it takes a fatality for something to be done,” Weldon Colbert, a Balch Springs resident, told city council members Tuesday night.
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A New Smyrna Beach man recorded video of sharks just feet from young swimmers over Memorial Day weekend and posts it to YouTube, where it’s gained more than 7,000 views.
The video shows the danger lurking off the coast in waist-deep water, right off of New Smyrna Beach Inlet.
“I noticed a bunch of dark shadows in the water and I thought, ‘Wow, this is interesting, I wonder what this is,’” said Steve Anest. “It became apparent just by their signature shape that they were sharks. Sharks were everywhere. In a second, if I would’ve fallen off, or she would’ve fallen, that’s where the fear came in.”
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The University of Tennessee swimming and diving camps begin next week at the Allen Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center.
Olympians abound at this year’s Tennessee swim camps.
Three traditional camps will be held during June and each will feature one or two American Olympic swimmers as special guests. Ryan Lochte will be at Camp 1 (May 31-June 4); Amanda Beard and Peter Vanderkaay will be at Camp 2 (June 8-12); and local Olympians Davis Tarwater and Claire Donahue will be at Camp 3 (June 15-18).
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