News: Aquatics

City of Newcastle looks to recruit new generation of professional of lifeguards

With beaches that attract over a million swimmers and sunseekers each year, the City of Newcastle is calling for high-school-aged trainee lifeguards to join its beach patrol team. For the…

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Oct 2, 2024 Aquatics / Education / Recreation / Safety / Tourism /

 
 

WaterAid Australia’s Big Spring Swim 2024 looks to combat global water crisis

Encouraging participants to dive into pools, lakes, rivers and beaches nationwide to raise much-needed funds to help provide clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene to communities in…

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Oct 2, 2024 Aquatics / Environment / Events / Sport /

 
 

Christchurch’s Hornby Centre saves with solar

Christchurch City Council’s newest library and pool facility at Kyle Park in Hornby will save around $90,000 annually from 625 new solar panels installed on the Hornby Centre’s…

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Oct 1, 2024 Aquatics / Environment / Finance / Recreation / Technology /

 
 

New safety laws now in place for Western Australian water sports 

The Western Australia Government has introduced new safety equipment requirements for sail and kiteboarders, windsurfers and paddlers operating more than 400 metres from shore with the…

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Oct 1, 2024 Aquatics / Government / Legal / Safety /

 
 

Darwin venues to welcome home Paris 2024 Olympians and Paralympians

Venues across the Greater Darwin area will be welcoming home Australia’s Olympians and Paralympians on Saturday, 5th October. The 2024 Australian Paralympic Team featured several…

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Sep 29, 2024 Aquatics / Events / Sport / Venues /

 
 

Swimmers outside of flagged patrol areas 10 times more likely to need rescuing

New research by a team from James Cook University - that used geomorphological, environmental and human data to better understand factors leading to surf rescues - has found that those who…

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Sep 28, 2024 Aquatics / Recreation / Safety /

 
 

Paedophile swim coach dies weeks after conviction for sexually assaulting young girls

Former Australian Olympic swimming coach Dick Caine has died, weeks after he was found guilty of raping and sexually abusing six female students in the 1970s and 1980s Caine, who had been…

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Sep 28, 2024 ByNigel Benton Aquatics / Legal / Safety / Sport /

 
 

BlueFit to continue focus on safety and commits to further staff training on breastfeeding awareness

Following mainstream media reports on a mother being told to stop breastfeeding while poolside at the Hurstville Aquatic Centre in Sydney's south, facility operator BlueFit has…

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Sep 27, 2024 ByNigel Benton Aquatics / Education / Legal / Recreation /

 
 

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