Swimmer's Daily

Month: August 2011

  • Woman fishes leg out of lake, lost 3 years earlier by a swimmer

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    A woman fishing near her home on Lake Ida in Minnesota said she reeled in a prosthetic leg three years after it was lost by a swimmer. She tries to track down the leg’s owner, who turns out to be another resident at Lake Ida who lost her leg while swimming three years ago. Leg…

  • Wild swimming with Martin Strel in Slovenia

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    Ha ha ha, funny intro to this article on The Guardian: “You are going to meet Martin Strel?” a woman says to me in Ljubljana. “You know who he is?” I ask. “Yes, of course. He is famous in Slovenia … But a lot of people here think he is a bit weird.” That doesn’t…

  • Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world

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    The Kurishio Sea Tank in the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, featuring whale sharks, mantas and the occasional diver. Beautiful, soothing, mesmerising, they still look a bit trapped, though. Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

  • Swimming with a (dead) giant squid

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    While filming whales off of the Canary Islands recently, a documentary crew discovered a rare marine find – the body of an Architheuthis (giant squid) bobbing in open water. They reckon that it was an adult female about 8 metres long with intact tentacles, where the largest specimens can be about 18 to 20 metres…

  • Dream Machine – Fiji Water 2011

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    Tatiana and Verda enjoying the water in and around Fiji. Yes, we are in the GoPro zone again, capturing beautiful video no matter if it is in, on or above water, or in the transition between these places. DREAM MACHINE – FIJI WATER – 2011 from Tatiana Howard on Vimeo.

  • Gemma Spofforth breaks nose and toe in bicycling accident

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    Britain’s Olympic medal hope Gemma Spofforth fell of her bike yesterday evening, breaking her toe and nose in the fall. They are keeping her at the hospital overnight in case she has a concussion. Looking at the picture, she might have broken a front tooth too, poor girl. Doing much better!! Keeping me in over…

  • Why did CAS burn Subirats and not Cielo ?

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    In short, Venezuela’s short course 50 meter butterfly world champion Albert Subirats missed the world championships last month because he was reported to have missed three anti-doping tests (a sanction that is now totally lifted) while now 50 meter butterfly long course world champion César Cielo and 2 other Brazilians got a last-minute express trial…

  • Long distance swimming is “a moving meditation”

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    I like that description: After about six hours I am usually deep inside my own head. My body takes over and my mind drifts off somewhere…a moving meditation. At night I will try and narrow my attention to a single light or glow stick on the boat or kayak. I close my eyes periodically to…

  • Aww, swim with tigers at Dade City zoo

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    The nonprofit Dade City’s Wild Things sanctuary in Pasco County is hoping that cat lovers will pay $200 a pop for the chance to take a dip with a tiger cub. Just don’t be around when momma comes home! Via Tampa Bay Online. Here’s another video from Tampa Bay Online …