Category: Safety
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Winter swimming competitor dies
Read Yle An elderly Russian swimmer who participated in the World Winter Swimming Championship in Rovaniemi, northern Finland has passed away. The man competed in the 450-metre endurance race in the 70 – 74-year old age group. The veteran Russian swimmer took ill while competing while competing during the competition’s opening day on March 20.…
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Lovemaking lands bottomless woman at bottom of well
See The Local via Arbroath Spanish daily ABC reported that the Ciudad Real woman had been having sexual relations with a man when the cover on a waterwheel well shaft became dislodged. She plunged 10 metres into the hole near ‘Playa Park’ – a waterpark popular with local youths as a venue for romantic liaisons…
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Police officers held drowning bull’s head above water for 3 hours
See ABC Action News, via Arbroath “I saw big nostrils going underwater and staying underwater with water blowing out,” Ammons said. An animal lover herself, she didn’t hesitate to jump into the retention pond to rescue the bull. “I stripped everything off that the sheriff’s office really cares about,” she joked. “And then I got…
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Swimming instructor is committed to water safety
See The Reporter When Debbie Koenig was 4, she watched her younger sister crawl and fall in a pool. She could swim, so she jumped in and pulled her out. Her sister choked and threw up on her, and Debbie says she knew, even then, that teaching swimming and water safety would be a lifelong…
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Headed to Amazon, David Beckham warned about Candiru, the urethra invading ‘vampire fish’
Read NY Daily News David Beckham was warned off swimming in the Amazon during the recent shooting of a documentary — for fear of a deadly fish swimming into his genitalia, sources tell Confidenti@l. The 38-year-old Becks, famously nicknamed “Goldenballs,†was told by the production’s medical supervisors not to go for a dip during filming…
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UCSB Student Dies During Swim Practice at Santa Barbara High School
Read Santa Barbara Independent and see KEYT Nicholas Johnson, a 19-year-old UCSB freshman athlete, was swimming laps at the time during a joint practice with the high school’s swim team. It’s unclear what caused Johnson to lose consciousness, and police and coroner’s officials say they continue to investigate the incident.
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Preparing Your Child to Swim Safe this Summer
See kiiitv.com Accidents are the leading cause of death in children under the age of 14, and each year, nearly 1,000 of those deaths around the country are due to drowning. Most of those drownings happen at the family pool. KiiiTV.com South Texas, Corpus Christi, Coastal Bend
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Missing Castaic Boy Found in Swimming Pool; Pronounced Dead
See KTLA A 4-year-old boy died after walking away from his home and being found in a pool in Castaic on Friday afternoon, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Rick Chambers reports for the KTLA 5 News at 10 on Friday, March 21, 2014. (video autoplays, therefore pushed below the break)
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IU football player Isaac Griffith walks for first time since swimming incident
See The Indy Channel Isaac Griffith has walked for the first time since being swept away by a rip current at Siesta Beach near Sarasota. Doctors also moved him out of the intensive care unit Friday. The Indiana University football player was on spring break when currents swept him into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday.…