Swimmer's Daily

Month: January 2012

  • Bryan Woodward only one of 40 arrested in week-long internet sex sting

    Bryan Woodward only one of 40 arrested in week-long internet sex sting

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    They called it Operation Red Cheeks, the week-long, multi-agency operation that resulted in the arrest of 40 suspects in Osceola County, including Gator Swim Club head coach Bryan Allen Woodward, pro Senior PGA Tour golfer Stephen W. Thomas, U.S. Army Reserve Shane D. Cousins and teacher Alexander Roy. Read more and see news segment here…

  • Live manatee webcam goes online

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    The Save the Manatee Club debuted a live underwater camera on Tuesday morning at Blue Spring State Park, with which we’ll now be able to watch manatees seeking warm water refuge in the park’s spring run during the winter. Mmm, warm water … If you’re lucky, you might even see me ! :-D Watch live…

  • Underwater dragon dance in Bangkok

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    Thailand prepared to welcome in the Year of the Black Water Dragon on Tuesday as the Lunar New Year approached. In Bangkok, children attended a unique performance which included an underwater Chinese dragon dance. Hmm, if they could make that go really fast, by wearing fins or riding some underwater jetski underneath the outfit, then it…

  • Biologists capture rare photos of whales and dolphins playing together

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    Via Treehugger, they’re pretty excited that wild humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins take time out to play with each other off the coast of Hawaii. Unfortunately we only get to see shots of dolphins riding whales, and not the other way around :-P

  • CC photo #18: The forest of flags at Shanghai 2011

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    An angled view of the flags outside the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai. Always difficult to get good photos of flags, but a stiff breeze sure helped. Just strange (for me) when the wind temperature is well above 30°C (86°F).

  • Behold Filip Jonker and his cardboard boat

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    Named after the tugboat in Jan de Hartog’s 1940 book Hollands Glorie (published in English as Captain Jan), Dutch artist Filip Jonker’s boat De Furie is 24 feet long and made out of standard honeycomb cardboard. Fitted with a 33-horsepower diesel engine, it made the trip from Enschede in Holland to London, crossing the English…

  • iPhone 5 will possibly be waterproofed with HzO “Waterblock” technology

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    HzO is said to be in talks with Apple and Samsung about incorporating its “WaterBlock” technology in future devices, such as the iPhone 5. This technology uses a nano-scale film barrier during the manufacturing process to provide waterproofing without the need for bulky cases. Read more here on Slashgear and Pocket-lint

  • How humpback whales hunt with bubble nets

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    To learn more about how humpback whales use bubble nets in feeding, marine biologist David Wiley and colleagues attached digital suction cup tags to whales that recorded depth and orientation in 3D, revealing advanced “double-loop” bubble releases consisting of first one upward spiral to corral the prey, and then a second one to capture the…

  • Geoff Huegill involved in scuba diver rescue effort

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    Australia’s Geoff Huegill was one of the first at the scene of a tragic diving death at Rottnest Island in Western Australia yesterday, where a 55-year-old scuba diver died after suffering an apparent heart attack while diving with family. Huegill was on a rigid inflatable boat with two other men when they were flagged down…