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Partnering With The Public
It’s easy to forget that the public can be our best advocates for water safety, if we just reach out and harness that power. Today I’d like to relate an example of how a mother reached out to the life...
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Baby Otter Andre Dawson Aquatic Center
Are Your Children Safe Around Your Pool And Home? When we think about safety of our kids we immediately think car seats, locks on cabinets, putting all chemicals out of reach, and the list goes on....
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Kaua’i Lifeguard Association
The Kaua’i Lifeguard Association continues to reach out to children across the island in Hawaii, starting with simple messages for the young ones, the first graders, and providing more information for...
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You’re Wearing WHAT To Work?
Many of us spend 40+ hours each week at work. Sometimes it feels like a home away from home. Why not share with your co-workers the importance of boating safety while at work? Join the National Safe...
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Macedonian Rescuer
The Water and Mountain Association MACEDONIAN RESCUER from Veles, Macedonia is organizing trainings and courses on a regular basis for its members as well as for those who want to gain the skills of...
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Talisman Energy
In flood-prone areas of Vietnam, drowning is a real issue for young children. To help address this, Talisman-Energy provides children in grades 1 to 5 with specially made school bags that become life...
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Jack’s Gift
Every time Tammie Lacey hears of a child drowning she relives her son’s death the day before his second birthday. During the Australian summer she is reminded of it too often. By the fourth day of...
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Diversity In Aquatics
With the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reporting that “drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death for children ages 1 to 14 years, and the fifth leading cause for people of...
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PASSA – Pool and Spa Safety Association
Year after year we are witnessing several cases of near death or fatal accidents related to pool and spa users, with a high percentage of the victims being children. In fact in the State of Qatar, the...
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The Lifesaving Foundation
The Lifesaving Foundation is based in Ireland, has an international membership, and supports the development of lifesaving in countries in Africa and Asia. It aims to reduce the number of drowning...
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Aqua Life – A Controversial Innovation
I wanted to make you aware that I had first pulled this week’s blog post about Aqua Life inflatable swim shirts and am now reposting the original article, with an explanation. I heard back from a...
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Lifeguards Without Borders
According to the World Health Organization, more than 96% of all the world’s drowning deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Lifeguards Without Borders is a group of healthcare professionals...
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Surf Life Saving Mauritius
Mauritius is surrounded by water and yet around 85% of the locals cannot swim as we use our beaches for socialization instead of increasing our fitness level and learn how to be safe at sea. Most of...
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Empowering Women – Sri Lanka Women’s Swimming Project
Swimming and being safe near water is not a luxury; it is a Life Skill that everyone should be entitled to. As we write, 54 locals have already drowned offshore and a further 3 are unaccounted, five...
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Swim Vietnam
The Problem In Vietnam, the number one cause of death for children over the age of one is drowning. International aid agencies, UNICEF and The Alliance for Safe Children, call it the “silent epidemic”...
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Step Into Swim – National Swimming Pool Foundation
In the United States, the lack of physical activity and poor diet are emerging as the leading causes of premature death. In the next 15 years there will be about 23 million more Americans over 65 years...
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Nile Swimmers Project
The Nile Swimmers Project is a drowning prevention initiative that assists communities to provide locally appropriate solutions to local drowning problems. The Nile Swimmers Project provides training...
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RNLI – Royal National Lifeboat Institution
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) helps raise river safety awareness in Teddington by training local bar staff, riverside business people and the local community. Situated in the middle...
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SwimSafe Sharks Thailand
The leading cause of death in children aged one year and over in Thailand is drowning, causing nearly 2,650 deaths every year. It was on reading these statistics that one rural school in Thailand...
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Safe Pool Holiday Villas
The dark side of water safety – “Commercialism”. My own experiences and thoughts on keeping children safe around water could possibly be viewed as coming from a selfish place. “My name is Gordon...
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