Crews are searching a lake in northern Minnesota for a 21-year-old Twin Cities man after he got out of a canoe during rough weather Thursday and tried to swim for shore. Katie Johnston reports.
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Mobile Swimming Pool Brings Joy to Displaced Syrians in Idlib | Middle East Eye
Youssef Ramadan drives a mobile swimming pool around makeshift camps in northwest Syria, bringing displaced children a reprieve from the summer heat
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YMCA Lifesaving Fire Chief Rockwall Kenneth Cullins | JER Chilton YMCA Rockwall
3 lifeguards at the JER Chilton YMCA we recognized for saving a young swimmer’s life after 3 rounds of CPR.
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Vernon Parks and Rec Offers Water Safety Tips as Families Flock to Beaches and Pools During Heatwave | FOX 61
Some lakes have signs telling people not to swim if a lifeguard is not on duty. For beaches, it is swimming at your own risk if that is the case.
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Swimming Australia – Making Gold Medalists With Machine Learning | Amazon Web Services
Hear how Swimming Australia stood up a data lake on AWS, providing coaches with a detailed analysis of each swimmer’s performance, and in turn enabling them to extract peak performance in the pool.
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7x Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky Rings The Closing Bell | New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange welcomes the most decorated female swimmer of all time, 7x Olympic Gold Medalist, Katie Ledecky, to ring The Closing Bell®.
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Bacteria Put Some Shore Beaches off Limits Temporarily | NJ Spotlight News
Getting turned away from the beach is not what you want during a week like this. But that’s what happened to swimmers at several bay and ocean beaches along the Jersey Shore. The state Department of Environmental Protection banned swimming for a time at five beaches in Ocean and Monmouth counties after levels of fecal bacteria exceeding the state standard were detected in the water.
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Exclusive | Srihari Nataraj — From Losing His Dad to Making History at Tokyo Olympics | The Bridge
Indian swimmer Srihari Nataraj lost his father in February 2021. But that did not stop him from becoming India’s youngest swimmer to make the Olympic ‘A’ cut and qualify for Tokyo Olympics, where he clocked his personal best.
Srihari takes us through his Tokyo experience and how the death of his father affected him and more.
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Heping Island Park Saltwater Pools Reopen With COVID Prevention Measures in Place | Formosa TV English News
The saltwater pools at Keelung”s Heping Island Park are open once again. After three months of restrictions, the park is now allowing swimmers to come for a dip, with COVID prevention measures firmly in place. The park has scheduled five daily sessions capped at 100 swimmers each. Early Friday morning, many eager swimmers arrived at the park for their first dip since the local outbreak.
After almost three months of COVID restrictions, people are itching for an outing. Now, they can go to Heping Island Park, which reopened its seawater swimming pools on Friday. Many swimmers turned up early to once again take a splash in the salty waters.
The pools have reopened with COVID measures in place. Every day there are five sessions lasting 90 minutes each. Capacity is capped at 100 people, all of whom must register beforehand. The pandemic is not over yet, so public health guidelines are still being enforced. Swimmers must put on a face mask as soon as they get out of the water. Showers are to remain closed, though changing rooms will remain open. Pets won’t be allowed in the pools.