Year: 2012
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CC photo #70: Max 5 persons on the bridge
A photo from the Stockholm leg of the 2010 FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup circuit. Sign says (in Swedish) “Max 5 personer pÃ¥ bryggan!”, which in English translates directly to “Max 5 persons on the bridge!”. Problem only that many of these didn’t really read Swedish, maybe didn’t care that much if they got wet, and…
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Michael Phelps before the Columbus Grand Prix
Michael Phelps spoke to the media before the 2012 Columbus Grand Prix
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James Cameron completed an 8,000-meter dive this week (!)
The following is an excerpt from an email from James Cameron to Don Walsh, co-pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, following Cameron’s successful (and record-breaking) 8,000-meter solo submarine dive in the “Deepsea Challenger” to the bottom of the New Britain Trench, Wednesday. Don Walsh will be joining the expedition in Guam, prior to Cameron’s 11,000-meter dive…
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6 more spots filled on Britain’s Olympic roster
Joe Roebuck added the 200 IM to his Olympic program today with a new personal best time of 1:58.16 today, ahead of also qualifying James Goddard in 1:58.42. Francesca Halsall won the 100 freestyle with a 53.57, well within the qualification standard, with Amy Smith also qualifying in 54.01, and Rebecca Turner qualifying for the…
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Diana Nyad goes for her Xtreme Dream again
It’s official, Diana Nyad will try again this summer to swim from Cuba to Florida.
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Video from a dolphin pod stranding and rescue this week
About 30 dolphins stranded and were saved by local people at Arraial do Cabo (Brazil) in the morning at 8:00 AM on March 5th 2012. And Gerd Traue was there to film the entire thing.
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YouTube and NBC will stream entire 2012 Olympics live and on demand
This summer, Americans, will be able to watch the entire Olympic Games as they happen for the first time ever, on NBC Olympics using YouTube’s technology back-end. That’s over 3,000 hours of coverage available for computers and mobile devices, live and on-demand. But alas, since NBC only controls digital rights for the United States, I…
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CC photo #69: Budapest 2010 team internet center
Internet for teams at the Budapest 2010 European Aquatics Championships was provided by parking this big bus inside the team area, complete with computers and everything. Best service I ever saw, maybe boosted by the fact that so few of us seemed to realize it was there :-)
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Cameron’s Deepsea Challenger launched, will go into the abyss in a few weeks
Behold the Deepsea Challenger, a one-man submersible craft that in a few weeks will take filmmaker James Cameron into the deepest point in the ocean – Challenger Deep in the Pacific’s Mariana Trench – as only the third human to visit that place since Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh back in 1960. Millionaire adventurer Chris…