Month: September 2017
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Rescue swimmer recalls seeing 2 children in Tupperware container
First responders from across the country came to Houston to help rescue people from rising floodwaters, including a coast guard team from Massachusetts involved in one of the most dramatic stories from the storm. One rescue swimmer said he’ll never forget a woman giving him a Tupperware container. He thought it was luggage and told…
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Would Bill English really swim in the Oreti River now?
The National leader says he would swim in the river, one of the South Island’s largest. Ian Telfer went to check it out.
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A decade after cleanup, Halifax residents reluctant to swim in once-polluted harbour
Nova Scotia may be known as Canada’s Ocean Playground, but the moniker hardly applies to Halifax harbour. Almost 10 years after the city spent $333 million to clean up its massive, infamously polluted harbour, the two public beaches near its downtown remain strangely quiet — even on hot, sunny days. Despite monitoring that shows the…
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Marine Officers work to protect swimmers, boaters
Marine Officers work to protect swimmers and boaters on Labor Day.
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1500 Meters for Mike 2017
On September 16, 2017 the swimming community of the tri-state area will come together again at Belmar Beach, NJ in the largest open swim on the New Jersey Coast to honor the memory of a fellow swimmer, The College of New Jersey’s Michael Heaney and support victims of Traumatic Brain Injury by swimming 1500 Meters…
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Swimmers see shark feeding frenzy from the inside
Snorkelers in Belize flock to a shark and stingray sanctuary called Shark Ray Alley. They are given the rare opportunity to swim among a large group of hungry nurse sharks. These 10 foot beasts appear ferocious but they are really gentle and curious and they will allow swimmers to join them as they compete for…
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Baikal Swim 2017. Official Video
‘Official video report from the fourth stage of X-Waters – the international open water swimming series.’
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Lightning concerns cancel rec swim at Paul Nelson Aquatic Center
Lightning concerns cancel rec swim at Paul Nelson Aquatic Center