5 Ways to Avoid Swimming Pool Accidents

Each year, thousands of people are involved in pool accidents or die in a pool across the country. If you want to prevent a swimming accident and accidental drowning from occurring in your backyard, then you should consider following the five safety tips on how to prevent...

Bronze for Rebecca Adlington in dramatic swimming final

Rebecca Adlington battled back to land the bronze in tonight's 400m freestyle final, which was won by French swimmer Camille Muffat, who set a new Olympic Record time of 4:01.45. After trailing for most of the...

Kenrick Monk & Nick D'Arcy: Swimmers Punished for Gun Photo

Australian Swimmers Kenrick Monk & Nick D'Arcy Disciplined over US Gun Store Photo When it saw a photo of Olympic swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk posing with firearms at a Los Angeles gun store, the...

Olympic Swimmer Matt Grevers Proposes to Annie Chandler Video

Olympic swimmer Matt Grevers proposed to his girlfriend and fellow U.S. National Teamer, Annie Chandler at the 2012 Missouri Grand Prix. Annie Chandler was proposed to last weekend by Olympic-swimmer boyfriend Matt...

TCU Men, Women Lead After Day 1 of UIW Christmas Invitational

The TCU men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams lead the field after the first day of competition at the University of the Incarnate Word Christmas Invitational at the Palo Alto College natatorium. The TCU men and women combined for six wins to highlight the first...

Swimmer skin tough as leather?

Swimmer skin tough as leather? I don’t know, this is another Welsh news story destined for a BBC mini-series special starring Helen Mirren. " “Swimmer, 84, in sea rescue at Treaddur Bay, Anglesey A...

Diana Nyad Suffers Asthma Attack, Stops Key West Swim

Diana Nyad Forced to Abandon Cuba-Key West Swim after 29 Hours After 28 consecutive hours of swimming, marathon swimmer Diana Nyad suffered an asthma attack. She kept swimming for another hour, trying different...

Diana Nyad Trying 103-Mile Swim, Cuba to Florida, No Shark Cage

Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad, 61, who is trying to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, was battling asthma, shoulder pain and a counter-current Monday afternoon as she swam through the Florida Straits, according to updates on her...

Diana Nyad Begins Havana-Key West Swim: No Shark Cage

Diana Nyad: 61-year-Old Swimmer Starts 103-Mile Journey Diana Nyad is taking another swing from Havana to Key West. The 61-year-old swimmer is not the first to make the journey: Australian marathon swimmer Susie...

Who is Ashley Finestone (Photo): Michael Phelps Secret Girlfriend

Michael Phelps Reportedly Has a Secret Girlfriend Named Ashley Finestone. Here is a Ashley Finestone Photo After winning a zillion gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Michael Phelps earned a reputation as a guy...

Over one thousand swimmers stung by jellyfish in Florida

You can call it the attack of the jellyfish as it is something out of a horror show.  Uncountable numbers of purple jellyfish are attacking swimmers and over 1,600 people have already been stung.These could be...

Francis Crippen: Swimmer Dies During Open-Water Race

US Swimmer Fran Crippen Dies During Race in United Arab EmiratesFrancis Crippen, a 26-year-old Olympic hopeful, died while competing in the Marathon Swimming World Cup. The 10km race took place in Fujairah, UAE. Preliminary examinations suggest that Fran Crippen died of...

Jake Satherley & Spencer Jeames: Nippers Save Drowning Man

Jake Satherley and Spencer Jeams, two eight-year-old boys from Gold Coast, Australia, saved a man from drowning in a riptide off Northcliffe Beach in Surfers Paradise.  These two young badasses swam out with...

Lewis Gordon Pugh To Swim Mt Everest Waters For Climate Change

British endurance swimmer and environmental activist Lewis Gordon Pugh will be swimming under the summit of Mt Everest to raise awareness for the importance of protecting the glaciers of the Himalayas. These...

Dirty Little Secret (Aug. 4, 2009)

The sewage systems for communities on the Great Lakes are actually designed to dump 15 billion litres of sewage into local waterways every year. To get a better sense of what sewage pollution is being reported,...

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