Month: June 2014
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Black Kids Lack The Basic Swim Skills They Need To Prevent Drowning
Read WLRN Florida has the highest rate of drowning in the country and for those younger than 4, water is the No. 1 killer aside from birth defects. But the danger is not spread equally among all children. Overall, black kids drown at a much higher rate than other children. But among the youngest group…
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Stirling prize longlist pits the Shard against Olympic Aquatics Centre
Read The Guardian The jagged form of the Shard, western Europe’s tallest building, is set to compete with the piscene curves of the London Olympics swimming pool for the title of best British architecture for 2014. Both structures have been selected on the longlist for the Stirling prize, the £20,000 annual gong awarded by the Royal…
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Video: Amy Van Dyken Speaks To The Press, Surgeon Explains Injury
See SwimmingWorld While lying on a stretcher just a few feet from the airplane set to transport her to Craig Hospital in Colorado, Van Dyken said her memory of the day she was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle in Show Low, Ariz., is very fuzzy. Most of what she knows was described to her after…
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This Is What All Backyard Swimming Pools Should Be Like!
See The San Francisco Globe What’s there not to love? Natural clean water, hand built, and so much cheaper than a traditional swimming pool.
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Behold The Stiffys Rap About Ian Thorpe
See hhhhappy.com Earlier this year, he was admitted to rehab in order to seek help for his depression and issues with alcohol. So, it is only fitting that we have decided to give the Thorpedo the love and attention he deserves. He’s as Australian as a sheep shearing station, Bunnings Warehouse, or this image. We love…
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One-third of swimmer deaths involve alcohol, Irish Water Safety warns
Read Irish Examiner 13 people drowned during the heatwave last summer, and Irish Water Safety is urging people to exercise caution. An analysis of figures over the last 25 years shows that more than one-third of people who died while swimming had consumed alcohol beforehand. 62% of drownings happen inland, and Irish Water Safety is…
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Man turns into ‘zombie’ after swimming
See CBS Sacramento A Stockton man claims he got severely ill and nearly died after swimming in a popular lake, losing 28 pounds in just one week. Luis Lopez swam at the Woodward Reservoir Regional Park in rural Stanislaus County. “I couldn’t move; I couldn’t look around, like I was a zombie,†Lopez said.
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Swimming pool viral Vine: How to make your own magic ‘hand-of-god’ video clip
Read The Mirror The internet was captivated by a three-second video appearing to show a boy diving into a swimming pool, only to be plucked from the air by a god-like hand. The giant hand then apparently throws him into another part of the pool. We’re here to assure you the hypnotic clip is not…
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‘Dream Weavers,’ underwater fashion spread by photographer Zena Holloway
See BoingBoing Zena Holloway is best known for elegant underwater photography, and her work was recently featured in this fashion shoot for the Financial Times’ lifestyle magazine, How to Spend It. Artist website here. An Underwater Film: Behind the Scenes of ‘How to Spend it’ Magazine from Zena Holloway on Vimeo.