All posts tagged "Swimming"

Researchers in the UK are seeking hundreds of people to take part in the first large study into whether outdoor swimming can reduce symptoms of depression. Open water bathing has been praised as a way to improve well-being in the last few years, with emerging evidence that it can have a positive impact on mental health, experts said. The number of adults experiencing moderate to severe depression in the UK doubled to nearly one in five between March and June 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, compared to one in 10 before the crisis. The research call comes after the first clinical trial into i......

In Paris, residents and tourists will be able to swim in the Seine again from 2025 for the first time in over 100 years, Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced on Sunday. She named the three sites that will be open to the public, an aquatic centre already partly in use, as well as two more central swimming spots, not far from the Eiffel Tower. The swimming areas will be demarcated by buoys and accessible via a jetty. There will be changing rooms and showers provided, the city said. Being able to swim in the Seine again has been a long-standing wish for Parisians. Swimming in the city's river was officia......

More than 236,000 people are estimated to drown every year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It's one of the leading causes of death globally for children and young people ages 1–24, and the third leading cause of injury-related deaths overall. Here are six things you may not have known - but should - about such tragedies: What are the biggest misconceptions about drowning? "The Baywatch syndrome," says Benjamin Taitsch, deputy chairman of the Bavarian Water Rescue Service in Germany. A reference to the former American TV series about lifeguards that became popular a......