Month: February 2012
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CC photo #45: Kristina Elin Thomsen took down 2 Faroese records this weekend
Kristina Elin Thomsen from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag is only 13 years old and not very tall at that, but still blew away two relatively long-standing Faroese senior records this weekend at the Ægir-meet in KlaksvÃk. First with a 2:25.36 in the 200 meter short course butterfly (yeah I know, we need to improve on that), and…
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Learning to Swim with Michael Klim
Huggies swim pants and tribal tattoos is a fun combination ! :-) Via the17thman
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Paganelli, Randig and de Vos freediving the Dahab caves
Linda Paganelli, Stefan Randig and Jacques de Vos head out to ‘The Caves’ just south of Dahab. Despite being an overcast, winter January day the dive itself still turned out to be awesome…
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Armstrong goes back to his triathlon roots, bests all but one
“I was very surprised, to say the least,” Lance Armstrong said after his incredible runner-up finish at today’s Ironman 70.3 Panama. “It was a completely new experience for me. I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know strategically how these races go down, so I tried to feel my way out on the bike…
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Night swimming with sea monsters
This brave National Geographic reporter dove down into skools of man-sized Humboldt squids aka diablo rojo (‘red devil’).
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There is something in the abyss that says “quack”
Marine ecologist Rodney Rountree modified a few mp3-players into waterproof, deep-sea recording devices, attached them to crab traps and sent them 2000 feet below the ocean’s surface for 24 hours. As expected they heard whales and stuff that they could identify, but also frequent samples of at least 12 deep-sea sounds that they couldn’t identify,…
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Michele Tomasi did it, 130m under ice in one breath !
Old record was Şahika Ercümen 110 meters in the Weissensee lake in Austria back in February, new record is Michele Tomasi 130 meters in Lago Santo in Italy.
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Cold Power North Bondi Classic
Something going down at North Bondi, see results and stuff at www.oceanswims.com
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Ice Castles
This is something they call The Ice Castles at Silverthorne, located in Colorado, USA. Beautiful, but I’m sure it looks more romantic and warm than it is :-)