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The Spanish Federation of Underwater Activities (Spanish: Federación Española de Actividades Subacuáticas, FEDAS) is the governing body in the field of Spanish aquatic sports. As of 2023, the federation has 897 registered clubs and 31,828 federated athletes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends swimming lessons for children from 1–4, along with other precautionary measures to prevent drowning. [4] In 2010, the American Academy of Pediatrics reversed its previous position in which it had disapproved of lessons before age 4, indicating that the evidence no longer supported an advisory against early swimming lessons.
Water safety and swimming lessons are crucial to SplashDown as a company and especially in their aquatics department, encouraging the use of life jackets, explaining the dangers around water to ...
Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS; known in English as the World Underwater Federation) is an international federation that represents underwater activities in underwater sport and underwater sciences, and oversees an international system of recreational snorkel and scuba diver training and recognition.
However, one Japanese swimmer, Masaru Furukawa, circumvented the rule by not surfacing at all after the start, but swimming as much of the lane underwater as possible before breaking the surface. He swam all but 5 meters underwater for the first three 50 meter laps, and also swam half of the last lap underwater, winning the gold medal.
Summer means time in the swimming pool. With the fun, however, can come danger, especially for those who can’t swim. On Thursday people around the world were scheduled to splash into pools for ...
The Puerto Deportivo Valparaíso, [59] located at Muelle Barón, Bordemar Centro, [60] is a watersports centre which offers sailing, kayaking and scuba diving lessons and hosts the "Valpo Sub" program that seeks to preserve the area's underwater heritage, offering educational tours and expeditions to shipwrecks along the bay. Puerto Deportivo ...
This is a list of national swimming records for Spain. These are the fastest times ever swum by a swimmer representing the country. These records are kept by Spain's national swimming federation: Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN). Information listed here is based on an update published August 19, 2013.