Month: August 2014
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Happy dog helps people get into the pool
Lifeguard Lab “Toyo” helps people get into the pool. I know one or two swimmers who could use a dog like that, especially before morning practice. Seen on Google+ http://youtu.be/VVu4f5cl4n4
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See Carbon Dioxide Narcosis Hallucinations That A Freediver Experiences
Guillaume Néry is a champion freediver, and his sport exposes practitioners to carbon dioxide narcosis, which can lead to, among other symptoms, powerful hallucinations. This short film is inspired by Néry’s experiences and the things he thinks he sees during a deep water dive. See io9
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Surfing’s Got This Little Guy’s Seal of Approval
Mathew Stanley captured this GoPro footage of a baby seal climbing on his board and playing with him and a friend in the water. We caught up with Matt to get the low down on what happened: “Me and my friend Andrew Flounders were out enjoying some summer waves when this little guy came along…
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Polar bear cub goes for first swim
Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub explores the zoo’s Big Polar Bear Habitat for the first time and gets ready for his summer swim. Humphrey, born in November, seems a little shy about jumping in off the rocks, but he wades in and chomps on some rushing water like a pro. See USA Today See also…
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Funding risk for underperforming Kiwis at Glasgow 2014
High Performance Sport New Zealand, which allocates government funding for elite sport, will carry out a reviews of all the sports it funds that competed in Glasgow. Triathlon failed to win a medal in Glasgow and swimming relied on Lauren Boyle and para swimmer Sophie Pascoe to win medals. Both sports each received about $2…
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Katie Ledecky has more than Olympics on her mind
The most dominant distance swimmer of her generation serves meals to the homeless once a month. Maryland teenager Katie Ledecky also collects, assembles and repairs bicycles for developing countries instead of attending classes every other week during the school year. The Stanford-bound swim star volunteers with the Wounded Warrior Project at the Walter Reed Bethesda…
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Swimmers ignore lightning threat, sharks for swim race
Swimmers competing in the Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim had more than just other competitors to worry about.
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Watch as Great White sharks attack underwater cameras
REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted: In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS “SharkCam” underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. They captured more than they bargained for.
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For Michael Phelps, there’s no place like home
Sitting on the deck at his beloved Meadowbrook, Michael Phelps glances toward the pool where he was once afraid to put his face in the water. “This is me,” he said, a slight smile curling off his lips. “This is home.” This is where Phelps put in most of the work to become the most…