Category: Health
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CPR is now simply Hands Only to the beat of ‘Staying Alive’
See for instance the American Heart Association and the British Heart Foundation. We have posted the Vinnie Jones video before, but it is definitely worth a re-share. And there are other examples And you know what? - It might even work ! A grandfather who suffered a massive heart attack on a bus has told how he…
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Learn to Swim as an Adult
Atlanta Swimming very own Matt Murphy and Friend of Atlanta Swimming Brenda Tran sat down with Tacoma Perry of Fox 5 Atlanta to talk about why it is never to late for every adult to learn to swim.
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Record Day for Swim Across America
See It’s Relevant Saturday marked seven years for Swim Across America’s Stamford swim — and lucky seven it was. Saturday the swim set a new bar, raising over $475,000 for cancer research. “[We’re swimming for] good friends — one who passed away, and another who has cancer,” said Ed Linekin of Ridgefield.
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Adults find out it’s never too late to learn how to swim
Read Lancaster Online Wanda Gregg is 56 years old, and she is learning how to swim. The Lancaster woman never learned the skill as a kid. Now she has two grandsons and she wants to be able to be in the pool with them. “We started with breathing, blowing bubbles — the basic stuff. That’s…
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Toxic ‘Blue Lagoon’ quarry pool dyed black to deter swimmers
Read for instance MailOnline, Derby Telegraph, BBC A pool at a disused Derbyshire quarry, known locally as the Blue Lagoon, has been dyed black in a bid to deter people from swimming in it. Despite the water at the quarry at Harpur Hill, near Buxton, having a pH level of 11.3 dozens of people still swim there.…
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Study shows Swimming Kids are Smarter Kids
See Swim Australia and Griffith University Griffith Institute for Educational Research, recently revealed children who had learned how to swim from a young age, reached many developmental milestones earlier than other children the same age, who had not. Some of these milestones included visual-motor skills such as cutting paper, colouring-in and drawing lines and shapes;…
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Swimmers defy advisory, take to bay for annual swim
Athletes from all over the world hopped into the Chesapeake Bay on Sunday, coming out in droves for charity and competition despite a weekend swimming advisory. Deborah Weiner reports.
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“Swim Across America” Gearing Up to Make Waves Against Cancer
Swim Across America is a collection of open water and pool related swimming events, that raise millions of dollars every year for a variety of cancer treatment and cancer research programs. They are now getting ready to make waves against cancer with their 7th Annual Greenwich-Stamford Swim.
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