Over 1.1 million primary school children will break up for half term next week unable to be safe in and around water.
The ASA and Kellogg’s surveyed 3,501 primary schools on how many of their children have attained Key Stage 2 swimming requirements. It found 51% of children aged seven to eleven cannot swim the length of a typical swimming pool (25 metres) unaided.
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Jan Shepherd has kindly prepared and Gerry Griffin circulated to our club membership a list of duties and volunteers for our Seahorse Swim on Sunday 23 June 2013.
This will be our fourth event in Studland Bay and competitors and volunteers have a really enjoyable day. The event finishes around lunchtime and so the afternoon will be yours to spend on the beach, in the sea or however else you fancy.
If you are a club member named on the list, or not and you or a friend / relative would like to help on the day, then please email Jan (janishep@hotmail.co.uk) to confirm your availability to help us run the event.
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In view of the very unseasonal weather, we need to consider delaying the start of our open water swimming season. The water is going to be much cooler than usual and Gerry Griffin, Membership Secretary has emailed our 2013 club membership to establish how many intend swimming on 16 April.
Please respond to Gerry on 01929 556 009 by Monday 8 April. Based on the response, Gerry will announce on the 9th when the season will start.
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We are pleased to announce that East Dorset Open Water Swimming Club has gained swim21 Club reaccreditation – the ASA’s ‘quality mark’. It recognises nationally and regionally the clubs that are committed to providing safe, effective and quality services for the benefit of their members.
We would like to thank everyone whose efforts have contributed to this achievement at Foundation level – Swim21 and volunteer co-ordinators, Committee members, teachers, coaches, officials, swim leaders, safety crew and partners.
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The fourth annual 3.8km Seahorse Swim on 23 Jun 2013 is now full.
Please find below competitor entry status as at 18 March 2013. Applicants marked with a ‘P’ or ‘Q’ have until 26 March 2013 to remit correct payments due otherwise they will forfeit their application and their provisional place will be offered to a reserve. In addition to the list below, we are awaiting competitor information for 6 places by 26 March 2013, for which a payment has been received.
We are now accepting applications for Reserves who will be offered places as they become vacant, on a first come first served basis from entries received with correct payment. No entries will be accepted on event day.
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This event returns to Preston Beach, Weymouth on Saturday and Sunday 29 and 30 June 2013:
The 10km Reg Blackburn Trophy Race will be held on the Saturday afternoon.
As at 6 February this is the only 10km race in Britain this year. It is hoped to have another 10km race, swum concurrently, which will be for swimmers not competing in the Reg Blackburn race.
On Sunday there will be 750m, 1,5km, 2km, 3km and 5km races. These will commence from 10am with the first briefing at 9am.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Dorset County ASA Open Water Sub-Committee have released details of exciting new open water team team and masters competitions they are holding on Brownsea Island on Saturday 13 July 2013.
Closing date for both competitions is Thursday 13 June 2013
Please read on and download and unzip this file for full details.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Open water swimming is becoming increasingly popular. And like any other aquatics discipline it needs officials to ensure events run smoothly. The growth in popularity of open water swimming has led to the alignment of the qualification steps for open water officials with those being used for pool officials to ensure parity. It created an Open Water Official Level 1 and an Open Water Official Level 2 qualification.
The first thing you need to do is choose a course you would like to go on. During 2013 there will be several courses available in different areas of the country.
Click here to download the list of current courses.
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RLSS Poole Lifeguard are once again organising the Brownsea Island Swim.
Date: 7 July 2013
Start time: approx 08:30am
Registration: from 05:45am at their club HQ at Sandbanks beach (in the car park).
It is an early start due to all swimmers needing to be on the Island by 07:45am. The timing of the swim is governed by tides and as such the start time is the best possible for the whole of 2013.
Please visit their website for full details and to enter via a 3 stage process.
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Celebrate life and bare all this summer in support of the work of the Marie Curie Nurses in Dorset. On Sunday 2 June 2013, hundreds of skinny dippers will gather together and try to break the world record for the largest skinny dip in one place.
Taking place at a secret location in the Dorset area, the exact location will be released to skinny dippers once they have registered. The aim of the sponsored dip is not only to break the world record, but to help raise vital funds to provide more hours of hands on care given by Marie Curie nurses in Dorset, who provide free nursing to terminally ill patients, and their families, in the comfort of their own home, at a time when it is needed the most.
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