Category: Safety
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Indiana Hoosiers’ Isaac Griffith in coma after swim accident
See ESPN Indiana wide receiver Isaac Griffith is in a medically-induced coma following a swimming accidenton Monday in Florida. Griffith’s father, Shannon, the football coach at Division III Manchester University,tweeted Tuesday morning that his son remains in critical condition after an incident involving a rip current. Isaac Griffith is on a ventilator to “allow his lungs to heal,” according…
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Bodyboarder injured when dolphin hit him ‘like a bulldozer’
Read The Australian and see 7News The 27-year-old man was surfing at Bawley Point, 250 kilometres south of Sydney, when the collision occurred. “He has come over a wave and as he did so, a dolphin has come through and hit him in the pelvic area,’’ New South Wales Ambulance duty operations manager Wayne Dunlop…
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London Bridge suicide jumper rescue saves second man from drowning
See London24, via Arbroath A man threatening to leap into the Thames from London Bridge last night inadvertently saved a stranger from drowning. Lifeboat crew were called out around 11pm yesterday evening, and were stood down when police on the bridge talked down the distressed man. 1) 23:00 called to London Bridge to reports of…
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Swimming Saves Lives Foundation Announces ‘Adult Learn-to-Swim Month’
See USMS According to the Centers for Disease Control, 37 percent of American adults can’t swim the length of a pool, which puts them at risk of being one of the 10 people who drown every day in the United States. The Swimming Saves Lives Foundation, U.S. Masters Swimming’s charitable arm, has declared the month…
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Learning to Swim at UCSB
Santa Barbara-area third-graders learn to swim, and learn a lot about a college education, in an annual session sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Early Academic Outreach Program. Learning to Swim at UCSB from UC Santa Barbara on Vimeo.
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Peeing In Pools Can Create Dangerous Neurotoxin Cocktail
See CBS Sacramento The next time you jump in a pool, think twice before you skip a trip to the bathroom. The chemical stew could harm more than just your reputation. Scientists say peeing in pools is more than just socially frowned upon, it can be hazardous to your health. It’s something that Olympic swimmers…
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Chlorine leak sends 9 kids to hospital at Houston-area swim school
See khou.com The health department is investigating what could’ve caused a chlorine leak that sent nine children to local hospitals. It happened after 6 p.m. at Fins swim school on Spring Cypress near Stuebner Airline. The victims, ages 2 to 16, began complaining of nausea, tearing and respiratory distress. According to fire investigators, everybody got…
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Dougherty County Law enforcers warn not to fish or swim in retention ponds
Read WALB A safety warning from the Dougherty County police about fishing or swimming in retention ponds. […] “Just like the retention pond we are at right now, when it fills up with water, parts of the ground are going to get very mushy and soggy and you can actually get stuck in that and…
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Cameraman Justin Lyons reveals Steve Irwin’s final words: ‘I’m dying’
See Herald Sun “We stood up and said, ‘One last shot. You swim up from behind the animal and I’ll try to get a shot of it swimming away’.†“All of a sudden it propped on its front and started stabbing wildly with its tail. Hundreds of strikes in a few seconds.â€