Swimmer's Daily

Year: 2012

  • Seth Casteel’s amazing photos of diving dogs

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    California-based photographer Seth Casteel devised a series of ball games to get dogs playing in the pool, like holding a ball under water and releasing it in his “bobbing for apples strategy”, to get them to dunk their faces it trying to get the ball. “The timing of this is the most challenging part,” he…

  • Two swim coaches killed in tragic plane crash

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    Swim coaches Rob Marshall Hill and Seth Dawson have been identified as casualties of a single-engine plane crash Wednesday on Little Si near North Bend, Washington, according to for instance The Seattle Times. Both were swim coaches at Decatur High School and the Valley Aquatics Swim Team in South King County, Washington, 30-year-old Hill also…

  • Shy penguin too scared to swim

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    Despite being a natural-born swimmer, one small penguin at an animal park in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province is too timid to dive into the water. Penguins do know how to swim, but they have to learn how to climb up ashore, and can have problem with controlling their direction and speed while swimming. To help…

  • Carnaval

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    Interesting effects in this video, GoPros seem to be ever present by now.

  • Ryan Lochte – The Next, Hot Olympian Swimmer

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    Or as they say here on TMZ: “U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s won 6 medals — and even beat Michael Phelps — but that still doesn’t get him a pass for pretending to be the biggest d-bag in the pool. He is pretending … right?” video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

  • Bodysurfing the Boom Boom Room 2012

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    “7-time Olympic gold medalist, Aaron Peirsol, reappers from the mist in this surf video.” Quote Gold Medal Mel on Facebook

  • CC photo #49: Japanese fans at Roma 2009

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    Photo taken from the athletes’ stand at the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships.

  • MSS: Matt Grevers and Annie Chandler

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    Matt Grevers’ surprise proposal to longtime girlfriend Annie Chandler has been the talk of the swimming community for the past week, and the happy couple join today’s edition of The Morning Swim Show to relive the experience. Grevers talks about the planning that went into the proposal, which started last December when he spent time…

  • Trofeo Nuotatori Milanesi 2012

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    A lot of famous faces in this high quality video from the 2° Trofeo Città di Milano, February 3rd to 5th 2012, including Federica pellegrini, Filippo Magnini, Massimiliano Rosolino and Milorad Cavic. See results on nuotatorimilanesi.it.