Year: 2012
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Rebecca Adlington and others join JLS for Sport Relief music video
The music video for JLS‘s official Sport Relief single, Proud, sees three British Olympic medal winners join the UK’s hottest pop group to celebrate the UK’s biggest year of sport: Swimmer and double gold medal winner Rebecca Adlington, triple jumper and silver medal winner Phillips Idowu and gymnast and bronze medal winner Louis Smith. Via…
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China’s deep-sea vessel “Jiaolong” to attempt record-setting dive
“Jiaolong will make a 7,000-meter test dive this year after several improvements are made to the submersible vessel,” Jin Jiancai, secretary-general of the China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association, said over the weekend. If the planned dive is successful, Jiaolong will have proven itself capable of reaching nearly any seabed in the world.…
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Gold-digging diver gets arm stuck in a vacuum hose
The gold hunters of “Bering Sea Gold” (Fri., 10 p.m. EST on Discovery) use high-powered vacuums on the bottom of the sea in their work to try and find gold there. But as with any equipment underwater, working with them can be dangerous. Emily, the newest member of the team, who’s trying to make money…
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Liam Tancock is FAST at putting on a swim cap
We’ve seen others do it before, but now it is Tancock ! :-)
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GoPro Wi-Fi BacPac will allow us to live stream 50 remote controlled GoPro’s at a time
GoPro’s highly anticipated Wi-Fi BacPac and Wi-Fi Remote Combo Kit are promised to be released in March 2012 for $99, that will allow us to simultaneusly record to onboard SD-card and live stream over Wi-Fi from 50 cameras at a time, remote controlled via the Wi-Fi Remote or with a free GoPro App available for…
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Wow, frozen sea ice flowers are beautiful
If I understand this correctly, this is something called ‘surface hoar frost‘, where saturated water vapors coming up through cracks in sea ice freeze and crystallize with salt on the ice serving as a nucleus for the frozen vaporized water. A dominant source of sea salt aerosol in Antactica, that scientist suspect may be main…
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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…