Year: 2011
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Sir Branson bows out of The Swim after fire ravages his home
Sir Richard Branson has pulled out of “The Swim” across the Irish Sea, after his luxury Carribean home was struck by lightning caused by Irene. Actress Kate Winslett was among 20 people who fled the paradise home on Necker Island, as it went up in flames. Pop star Ronan Keating has vowed to battle on…
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Garrett Weber-Gale keeps eating crazy stuff at Noma
First it was live prawns, and now some guy from Brazil produces a fly and says that it is edible. As if we didn’t learn already at kindergarden, not to eat stuff just because some other guy says that you can. How many of you would eat this? I did. Brazilian chef brought them to…
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Here’s a tub of terrified sea lampreys
The sea lamprey is a parasitic eel-like fish found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, in the western Mediterranean Sea, in the Great Lakes and even in the Thames. It has a suction-cup like mouth full of sharp teeth, and it doesn’t take prisoners, but let’s them bleed to death or die…
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Cannonball – Skating the Swimming Pool
This fad has to stop, “Once upon a time, Fresno was the California Dream. Own a car. Own a house. Own a pool. Everyone wanted it and the wonderful world of credit made it all possible. But now, with the foreclosure monster running wild, the dream is dry. Thousands of pools are festering in the…
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Eamon Sullivan struggles with being a sex symbol
See Eamon, there are problems and then there are non-problems ;-) “I wear less every day anyway so that wasn’t a problem,” Sullivan said. “It just wasn’t my thing, I had fun but there’s no way I’d ever do that as a career, it’s not me.” Despite his chiselled physique and boy-next-door good looks, Sullivan…
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Sea lion attacks couple at Venice Beach
An elderly couple out for a swim off Venice Beach Thursday evening found themselves the victims of an attack by a sea lion, reports KTLA.
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ITN: Gaddafi swimming pool becomes rebel playground
Libyan rebels have stormed the Tripoli house of Colonel Gaddafi’s daughter, Aisha, swimming in her pool and lounging on her sofas. Read more here on ITN.co.uk.
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Woman fishes leg out of lake, lost 3 years earlier by a swimmer
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…
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Wild swimming with Martin Strel in Slovenia
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…