Second-graders in Hampton City Schools are receiving free swim lessons at the new Hampton Aquaplex.
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NSRI Open Third Survival Swimming Centre | eNCA
South Africa has thousands of kilometers of beaches, and in rich neighborhoods, hundreds if not thousands of swimming pools.
But alarmingly, only one in every seven South Africans knows how to swim.
According to the National Sea Rescue Institute, about 1500 people drown each year — an average of four people per day. This is why the institute has opened the third of its NSRI Survival Swimming Centres.
After launching similar facilities in the Western and Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal communities can now also benefit.
The newest facility was recently opened at a school on the KZN south coast and will service the greater Port Shepstone area.
Let’s find out more from the NSRI’s Drowning Prevention Manager Andrew Ingram.
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Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Shares Wild Story of Saving Man Accused of Stealing Boat | KATU News
The Coast Guard officer who saved the suspect in a bizarre series of crimes – stealing a boat and driving it into stormy seas after placing a dead fish at the “Goonies” house – has spoken about the dramatic rescue.
The Coast Guard says two aircrews got a mayday call Friday from a boat that was floundering in the surf near Cape Disappointment.
A Coast Guard boat crew was also called out, but the surf made that kind of rescue too dangerous – so they lowered a rescue swimmer into the water.
This was Petty Officer First Class Branch Walton’s first rescue.
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Waterproof Drone Can Fly and Swim Using the Same Four Propellers | New Scientist
A quadcopter that can fly like an aerial drone, but also splash down into water and operate like a submersible, could be used for search and rescue missions or engineering inspections.
Ben Chen at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his colleagues created a prototype device called Mirs-X, which weighs 1.63 kilograms and is 38 centimetres wide. It can hover for 6 minutes in the air or dive underwater for around 40 minutes. Mirs-X is waterproof at depths of up to 3 metres and moves at up to 2 metres per second in water.
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Man Wanted for Leaving Dead Fish at ‘Goonies’ House Is Rescued by Coast Guard Swimmer | ABC7
A man wanted by police in Oregon in a bizarre incident at a house featured in “The Goonies” was the subject of a daring Coast Guard rescue when he was tossed from a stolen boat as it capsized, authorities said.
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Swimming World Records That Will Be Broken in 2023 | Propulsion Swimming
We look at the swimming World Records we’d love to see broken in 2023! Can Leon Marchand take down Michael Phelps’ historic mark in the 400m IM? Will Kristof Milak break Caeleb Dressel’s 100m Butterfly World Record? And who out of Summer McIntosh, Katie Ledecky, and Ariarne Titmus will hold the 200m and 400m Freestyle World Record by the time the year is out?!
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Teen Dies in ‘Unusual’ River Shark Attack in Perth | The Star
A 16-year-old girl died on Saturday (Feb 4) in Western Australia’s state capital, Perth, after being mauled by a shark in a river, in a location experts deemed “unusual” for sharks, according to the police.
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Thousands of Swimmers Have Taken the Plunge for Cole Classic at Shelly Beach | 7NEWS
Thousands of swimmers have taken the plunge battling it out in an annual Sydney race that’s become an institution at Shelly Beach.
The Cole Classic’s history spans more than 4 decades and it’s proving more popular than ever.
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Day in the Life at a Swim Meet | Luxembourg | Wiffen Twins