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RLSS UK’s Drowning Prevention Week Campaign Making Waves!
Thousands of people are taking part in the national drowning prevention campaign run by the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), to help cut down the hundreds of deaths caused by accidental...
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Water Phobias
Overcoming a fear of water differs from learning how to swim. Quite often a mistake is made by both aquatic professionals and people who are looking to achieve specific aquatic goals. There is a...
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Swim safe Uganda is as a community based program that is run by a group of swimming lifesavers in Uganda. It comes as a remedy to the drowning problem that is wide spread in the great lakes region of...
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Sri Lanka Women’s Swimming Project
More people in the world drown than die of HIV AIDS. Swimming is not a sport; it is an essential life saving personal survival skill. In Sri Lanka, the national drowning rate is six times greater than...
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Safer 3
Over the last year, many in the aquatics industry have identified with the following statistic by Ruth Brenner and her colleagues in 2009 at the National Institute of Health: “Participation in formal...
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Safety Angel Fish
Do you know a child is 14 times more likely to drown then die in a car accident? And for every child that drowns 3 others experience a near fatal drowning resulting in hospitalization and sometimes...
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Project Face In The Water
As her 40th birthday approached, Kim Shults began to think about how much more she could offer humanity - something bigger, something better, something more important. The result was a challenge:...
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PoolSafely
Every year, nearly 300 children under the age of five drown in a pool or spa and another 4,000 children of that age go to hospital emergency rooms for non-fatal drowning injuries. While most parents...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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