Month: March 2013
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Alligator Learns to Swim with a Prosthetic Tail
Read for instance Ecorazzi We’ve seen bunnies in wheelchairs, sea turtles with prosthetic limbs, but as far as the Phoenix Herpetological Society knows, this is the very first alligator learning to swim with a prosthetic tail.
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Seal Pup Slip n’ Slide (surfboard remote camera)
“Newly weaned harbor seal pups make use of my old windsurf board. I mounted a remote GoPro camera and these posers seemed to know exactly where to perform! It had rained that morning and the slip n’ slide ensued.”
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Swimming to Alcatraz in March
“Evan joins the Alcatraz Swimming Society (ASS) of the South End Rowing Club for their weekly swim. March 6, 2013. Pier 33 San Francisco to the Rock. Water temp 51F; Air temp 50F; Winds 10 knots. No wetsuits were used in the making of this film.” Swimming to Alcatraz in March from Evan Morrison on…
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CC photo #436: The Istanbul 2012 men’s 200 fly medal podium
Medal winners in the men’s 200 meter butterfly at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Laszlo Cseh (HUN, silver), Kazuya Kaneda (JPN, gold) and Nikolay Skvortsov (RUS, bronze). See the result list here.
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CC photo #435: Water Balloon Catapult Crew at our ‘Swim Day’, Yesterday
So the rules were that the team won that caught the largest number of (intact) water balloons. One girl managed to catch 4 balloons, several kids caught 2 or 1, and most of them got wet. The kid standing is our youngest son choosing to stand on the non-business end of the catapult, the girl…
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SwimmingWorld struggling with a ‘Denial of Service’ attack
Read statement via SCAQ BLOG “Swimming World’s website SwimmingWorld.com has been under an extremely heavy denial of service attack since last evening. On top of working with our server host to get the problem solved, we are in contact with the FBI and are working on filing a complaint regarding this attack on our company,…