Month: September 2011
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The Race Club: Secret Tip – Rangs Jr.
Gary Hall Senior shares a Race Club secret with us, to use the Rangs Jr by Finis as upper arm flotation devices supporting high elbow position, instead of the original purpose.
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Japanese swimmers complete gratitude swim to Taiwan
Six Japanese men swam 150 kilometers (95 miles) through heavy winds and rough seas to reach the Taiwanese coast Monday in a show of gratitude to Taiwan for its US$260 million aid after the March earthquake and tsunami. Taiwan’s foreign minister Timothy Yang said at a cocktail party to welcome the swimmers, that he was…
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Diving on the Salam Express
The ferry “Salam Express” sank in December 1991 while it was on its way home to Egypt from Saudi Arabia. On board there were officially 690 passengers, some estimate 1600, whereof only 200 survived. Diving on The Salam Express Red Sea 2011 from Karim Hamza on Vimeo.
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Time Warp – Water & Professor Splash
Water droplet photography meets a Photron high speed camera for some serious ‘water in motion’ poetry. They also filmed shallow water Guiness Record holder Darren Taylor a.k.a. “Professor Splash” doing a high dive into a kiddie pool So let’s watch that shallow water world record
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6 Japanese swim to Taiwan to say thanks for US$260.5 million
Six Japanese swimmers are at the moment navigating 150 kilometers to Taiwan to show gratitude for the US$260.5 million aid the country provided following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disasters. Team leader Kazuya Suzuki said prior to the swimmers’ departure that their main fear is “not the current or typhoons, but the fragility of…
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Mark Foster may seek 7th Olympic appearance at London 2012
Exciting news, according to the Guardian, 41-year-old Mark Foster doesn’t rule out a seventh Games appearance, which will make him the oldest Olympic swimmer in history. In fact, it sounds like he doesn’t see himself as retired yet. “A tiny part of me never wanted to say that it was over. I was always leaving…
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Britta Steffen abandons weight-training to gain stamina
After having won the 50 and 100 meter freestyle crowns at both the Beijing 2008 Olympics and the Rome 2009 World Championships, Britta Steffen flopped at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships, ending up as #16 in the 100 freestyle and a no-show in the 50. In her opinion because the (supersuit era?) weight-training had hurt…
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Lifeguards thought drowning boy was ‘playing dead’
Suraj Mall, eight, was unconscious in the deep end, but the guard and another young swimmer thought he was “pretending to be dead” before the alarm was raised. After being pulled out, he was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. Read the Mirror.
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CNN recounts Diana Nyad’s journey to swim from Cuba to Florida
A sneak peak of Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s special “Diana Nyad’s Xtreme Dream” on CNN this Saturday night. Via blogs.cnn.com.