Month: September 2013
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8 Insane Things You Can Do Underwater
Courtesy of Buzzfeed “Underwater has never been this cool”
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Whole World calling on injured triathlete Camilla Pedersen
Read Jyllands-Posten (in Danish) “It’s been a storm without equal. It has gone around the world, and my phone has been red hot since Tuesday, says Michael Krüger, national coach of the Danish Triathlon Federation, now at third day waiting for news about the Danish European champion Camilla Pedersen, who crashed her bike Tuesday night.…
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500 feet below ice – Stig Severinsen sets new Guinness World Record
Yesterday on a single breath of air, Stig Severinsen sets a new official Guinness World Record by diving 500 feet (152.4m) below the ice in a frozen lake in East Greenland where nobody has ever been diving before! Post by Stig Ã…vall Severinsen.
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Beneath the Peel: Behind the scenes with the Dutch Swim Team
“Great ‘behind the scenes’ footage taken from a recent photoshoot with the Dutch Team in Rome. Watch as Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Jacco Verhaeren and the rest of the team get made-up for the shoot! Looking good guys!”
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Widow Of Columbus Man Says He Completed Cuba To Florida Swim First
Via the17thman “While the world celebrates marathon swimmer Diana Nyad’s historic swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida, a Central Ohio woman said her husband completed the same journey nearly 35 years ago. Faye Poenisch, widow of Walter Poenisch, said her husband completed the same swim at the age of 68. Walter Poenisch began marathon…
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‘Pipin’ Ferreras to attempt “no-limits†freedive world record a decade after wife’s death
More than a decade ago, record-setting free diver Francisco “Pipin†Ferreras of North Bay Village lost his wife, Audrey Mestre, when she drowned attempting to exceed his world depth mark in a plunge to 561 feet off the Dominican Republic. […] Ferreras, now 51, retired from competitive diving after his wife’s death. He dissolved his…
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New NZ qualifying times raise bar for Commonwealth Games
Read NewstalkZB The NZOC and Swimming New Zealand have lifted their expectations for Kiwi swimmers heading to next year’s Commonwealth Games. Qualifying times have been released , and in some events they’re faster than current New Zealand records. (Lauren Boyle on the BCN2013 medal podium)