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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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It was sink or swim Tuesday as students from Wilmington Academy of Arts and Science took part in the Cardboard Boat Regatta at Echo Farms Pool.
Students were teamed up in their science classes to build boats only out of cardboard and clear packing tape. The goal was to put two passengers in the boats and paddle 25 yards across the pool without sinking.
Some students took the challenge very seriously, applying buoyancy formulas to engineer their boats just right to hold their weight, others do not and some sink immediately.
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A 4-year-old boy was taken to the hospital after he was pulled from a swimming pool, Monday.
Officials said the incident occurred during a pool party at a home in the area of Northwest 17th Court and 36th Avenue in Lauderhill, Monday afternoon.
A 4 year-old boy was sitting on the steps of the backyard pool in, dipping his head in the water. An adult noticed he stopped moving and quickly pulled him out of the water.
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While the air temperature in Michigan may have hit the 80’s, it’s still not warm enough to melt the thick ice build-up on Lake Superior, where the water remains a chilly 37 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Last weekend Simon Holliday, 35, set a record for the crossing of the Pearl River Delta in a time of 10 hours, 20 minutes, and 30 seconds, beating the time of Beijing swimmer Zhang Jian who swam across in 10 hours 30 minutes in 2005.
