Category: Safety
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Morocco-Spain Border Incident Leaves 15 Dead As Police Fire Rubber Bullets At Swimmers
Read for instance Reuters Spain said on Thursday border police had fired rubber bullets in an attempt to turn back around 200 migrants who tried to cross the frontier between Morocco and Spain’s north African enclave Ceuta on February 6. Several migrants from the group drowned in the Mediterranean trying to swim around a man-made breakwater…
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Ad Says Don’t Wait Too Long
I say “you go, big boy !!” :-) BCBS Swimming 30 from Colin Quinn on Vimeo.
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Rebecca Adlington: Why are we closing swimming pools?
Read BBC As British swimmers leapt from the London 2012 starting blocks, they should have been doing so in full confidence. But their performance was one of the few lowlights of 2012, with the team securing three medals instead of UK Sport’s target of at least five. “We put a lot of pressure on ourselves,”…
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Swim program helps children with special needs
On Saturday mornings, the swimming pool at the France A. Cordova Recreational Center splashes with the sound of children learning to swim, but that sound also helps parents with children in the Special Needs Aquatic Program breathe a sigh of relief.
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Body of missing Boynton Beach swimmer found, identified as Billy Jeudi, 23
See WPTV The body of the swimmer that went missing on Thursday morning near Boynton Beach Inlet has been found and identified, says Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The body of Billy Jeudi, 23, was found floating in the Intracoastal Waterway along the 7000 block of Dixie Highway and Hypoluxo…
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Rally Car Goes For A Swim
See Daily Picks And Flicks A dramatic crash video from the 2013 edition of Karkonosze Rally in Poland. Everyone was OK.
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Riverton High School Swim Team Saves Lives
“As we reported earlier this week the Riverton High School team are being called heroes are saving the lives of 2 people who where in a head collision with an 18 wheeler on saturday. K2’s Michael Sevren spoke with them students… coaches and bus driver who put their lives at risk to save complete strangers.”…
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Midmar swimmer’s body found
Read Sport24 The body of Herman van Straten who went missing during the Midmar Mile swim has been found, KwaZulu-Natal police said. “At about 16:20 (the body) surfaced about 800m from the starting line,” Captain Lolly Moodley said. He said the rescue dogs had respond “positively” just before the body was found and pointed in…
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Simple Step by Step Guide on How to Save Someone Who is Drowning
Guest post by Miles Wiseman Drowning can happen any time and surprisingly even in shallow water. Knowing what you are required to do to rescue a drowning person safely helps save lives. A simple process to carry out when rescuing a drowning person is, reach, throw, row and go, in that order. However, the first thing…