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A WA junior surfing champion was lucky to escape serious injury after a dolphin launched out of the water and landed on him during a surf at Kalbarri. Incredible footage shot by 13-year-old Jed Gradisen’s father Andrew shows the moment the surfer slid off his board a split second before the creature’s nose punctured a hole in the fibreglass surfboard. Mr Gradisen was filming Jed and his older brother Ben three weeks ago when the close encounter happened. “I was paddling back out. I saw them (a group of dolphins) coming. Oh my god, they were coming straight for me,…

The Apple Watch Series 2 is waterproof — and it’s updated design will spawn a whole host of new functions and apps, including the world’s most advanced swim tracker, Swim.com. The Swim.com app, available now on the iOS App Store, transforms the Apple Watch Series 2 from a standard lap counter to an advanced swim tracker. On top of the basic swimming functionality that the Apple Watch Series 2 offers, users swimming with the Swim.com app will be able to record stroke count, stroke type, differentiate periods of rest from swimming, track intervals, pace, efficiency and much more. “Our Swim.com engineers…

Albany Times Union – Sports https://youtu.be/zePJ55ydcmU

Part 1 of 4 Vlogs documenting my time with the Arena Elite swim team in Rome! https://youtu.be/_0osVZrwrGE

Former Olympic champion swimmer Florent Manaudou told AFP on Tuesday that he is taking a break from the pool to concentrate on playing handball. The 50m freestyle gold medallist from London 2012 said in a statement he didn’t want to take “hasty or radical decisions” but wanted to avoid continuing his swimming career “without pleasure”. The 25-year-old will instead train with the Aix-en-Provence handball team, although “without any ambition other than to give my best” and “find a different source of pleasure”. Read France 24 https://youtu.be/ZLdiZyaP2jw https://youtu.be/XNDoV26YVvY

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Yesterday, MySwimPro announced their first wearable integration with a native swimming app for Apple Watch. The Watch App coaches you through swim workouts set by set. It works by syncing a swim workout from the iPhone App to the Apple Watch. The iPhone app features hundreds of swim workouts organized by skill level, stroke category and workout duration. This workout functionality is only available on the Apple Watch Series 2 because it’s waterproof to 50m. The Apple Watch Series 1 will only display a swimmer’s profile stats. “We’re thrilled to launch the first swimming app for Apple Watch! This new…

Watch some of the best moments from the second event of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2016 in Berlin (Germany) including the highlights of Jeanette Ottesen, Katinka Hosszu, Chad le Clos and more. https://youtu.be/uJ_0HQhfIh8

Saturday 29th of October will be the inaugural date of the 1st MARNATON SwimRun Cap de Creus. A challenge that combines the two disciplines of running and swimming consecutively over a marked course comprising 18km running and 5km swimming. The adventure will start in the Port of Roses, either in pairs or individually, participants will cross the Cala Montjoi, go up the Cap Norfeu and end in the Paseo de Cadaqués. See Marnaton https://youtu.be/WdP4BbvkjaE

If you were unfortunate enough to drown in London during the mid- to late 18th century, further indignities likely awaited you. A member of the public may have attempted to revive you by furiously pumping tobacco smoke into your rectum. The tobacco smoke enema was one of the resuscitation techniques recommended by London’s Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned, an organization formed in 1774 with the aim of developing and administering lifesaving first-aid to those on death’s door. At the time, resuscitation was still a new and novel concept, and the idea of touching a dead person was thoroughly unappealing to most.…