Year: 2011
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Swimtastic releases free book for parents to teach their kids about water safety
A free educational water safety book is now available on www.Swimtastic.com; designed specifically for parents to use to educate their children at home. The book incorporates water safety rules through fun and engagement; downloadable for free on the Swimtastic Swim School website, if only you register. “Smart Fish Swim in Schools!” :-) Via PRWeb
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iiM update available for the FINIS Swimsense® swim watch
Interval Inference Mode (iiM) is a free update for the FINIS Swimsense® performance monitor, freeing you from having to manually press the “pause” button after each repeat. Simply press START at the beginning of your workout and STOP at the end, and the Swimsense® will automatically register all intervals and rest period, along with other…
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Lucky girl gets one of Michael Phelps’ Minneapolis gold medals
Gracie Abdallah went to the Minneapolis Grand Prix hoping to meet her favorite swimmers and take a few autographs back to Sioux falls with her. Her marigold-yellow T-shirt has the names of nearly a dozen swimmers scrawled on it with a black Sharpie, but the greatest sovenier was one of Michael Phelps’ gold medals from…
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Open water swimming drills
Courtesy of www.openwaterswimming.com, kicking with a snorkel and the “hug drill”. Both of them work perfectly for pool swimmers also :-)
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HzO can also waterproof you mobile phone
Waterproofing nanotechnology popping up everywhere these days, during a press preview for the upcoming 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, a company called HzO showed of some kind of technology that creates a “nano-scale film barrier” with the circuitry of for instance a mobile phone, that rather than keep water out, allows water too creep inside without…
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Canada’s new currency is see-through, stretchy and waterproof
It’s official, Canada’s now has money ready for you to tuck into your bathing suit and take for a swim. And it’s plastic, and it’s see-through. The $100 bill is out now (who needs less?), the $50 bill coming next March, and the rest in circulation by 2013. They’re not the first though to have…
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Catania withdraws as 2014 World SC Championships host
The Euro crisis and debt problems of Italy has stretched to the world of swimming: Sicily has told the Italian Federation (FIN) and FINA that it can no longer host the World short-course championships at Catania in 2014 because of a lack of funds. Read SwimNews.com.
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The truth about the night Grant Hackett snapped
Brace yourself before reading this Women’s Day report … On the surface, Grant Hackett seems to have it all – a beautiful wife, gorgeous two-year-old twins, and a golden reputation that has earned him a host of corporate gigs and a commentary spot at next year’s Olympics. But the triple Olympic gold medallist’s future is…