Diving medicine

he punished Tuffs and Craven for cheating out of their laps. As the boys prepared for their attack on Otters, Momma otter overcame all obstacles in her way, getting closer and closer to her son. Her first clue was found on the side of the lake where Tuffs dropped his school identification card. Next, she searched out in the city for school kids. When she found an opportunity, she jumped into a backpack and made her way to Valley High School. Eventually, Tuffs met up with Craven at the pool and they set forth their scheme. Baby otter, scared and alone in the locker, was startled when the boys suddenly blinded him with the outside light when they opened the locker. He was thrown into the cold pool and stood frightened, hiding under the diving board, hoping for his momma to save…

Sometimes it was the diving board. Sometimes it was a game of sharks and minnows. Today it had been a breathing technique. The goal of the exercise was to swim a full lap without taking a breath. I watched the first girl, an experienced swimmer, swim like a fish to the other end of the pool and back without breathing. I thought that I could do it; in fact I was determined that I could do it. I reasoned that in the past, I had been determined about different challenges and succeeded: the…

My heart pounds harder than it has ever pounded before. The initial feelings of nervousness and excitement are momentarily forgotten with the intoxicating smell of chlorine. As each ear-piercing whistle is heard, the biggest moment of my swimming career is approaching. Among all the high school swimmers who made it to the PIAA Swimming and Diving State Championships at Bucknell University, I try to relax and calm my emotions, but I have been waiting for this moment my entire life. The announcer…

Through the many years of my swimming career, the sport has transformed me into the adult I am today. For the past twelve years, I have called the Woonsocket YMCA pool my home. I learned how to swim there at five years old, joined the swim team at seven, and finished off my high school swimming career at the age of seventeen. Over the years, I have made lifelong friendships, unforgettable memories, and achieved goals set for myself and the team. My swimming career has been primarily known for…

and the patron was taken to the hospital. These are just a couple incidents at my particular pool, but many other aquatic environments have situations like these that give you the opportunity to help out in dangerous situations. In addition, we are also trained to recognize distressed or drowning swimmers. According to statistics, an estimated 372,000 people died from drowning in the year 2012. Additionally, between the year 2005 and 2014, the U.S alone averaged about 3,256 unintentional…

Have you ever seen someone dive off the diving board? Do you enjoy swimming? Well now I’m going to give you a little more information on swimming and what the physics of it is. You will see swimming in a whole different way. Gravity is always affecting you while swimming. Even you don’t think it is. Force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies fall toward the center of the earth. Newton’s first law of motion has a part to do with swimming. An object in motion stays in motion until another…

The Art of Swimming Lessons Trying a new activity for the first time can be challenging as well as a frightening experience. In our complex that we lived in at the time with many other families and children of the same age as me was an outdoor swimming pool, smack dab in the centre of houses. You couldn’t avoid it, its crystal waters gleaming at your through the fence that surrounded the pool. I enjoyed being in the water; that wasn’t the issue, the problem I faced was the deep, ominous depths…

exceptional golfer where he began to get his techniques from a professional at the golf club. He was known as a poor sport because whenever he used to lose he would throw his club and walk away from the game. But in 1923 his reputation of being a poor sport was wiped out of everybody after his successful career of winning 13 championships and being a person that matured over the years. Another notable golfer was Walter Hagen because of his success in the 1920’s. He won 5 PGA tours and was the…

My favorite sporting event that was meaningful to me was this year on March 3. This was the state swimming and diving tournament. This year I was supposed to swim 4 events total which is more than I had had the previous two years. It was an absolutely phenomenal experience due to a couple of factors. Firstly, I was 9 overall in the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 53.1. This was a stellar time for me considering my best time before that was a 54. I had swum lights out and accomplished my goal…

Since watching the NatGeo/BBC Great Barrier Reef documentary on youtube (youtu.be/dwne0S2Hbag), I have dreamed, fantasized, and basically been obsessed with the desire to see it up close in person. After Obtaining my scuba diving license, I begged my parents to take me to Australia so I could fulfill my dream, which seemed impossible, until suddenly my dream came true. I got to opportunity of a lifetime to travel to Australia with a group of 12 kids, all older than me, that I had never met. I…