Year: 2014
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Italian explorer plans to live on an iceberg for up to a year
Italian explorer Alex Bellini has conceived an extraordinary plan to live alone on a drifting iceberg in northwest Greenland for up to a year, or until it melts away – whichever happens first. He aims to stay alive during this time in a tiny survival pod, and hopes his experience will encourage further discourse on…
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Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 4:20.83 and New 400 IM Short Course World Record
At the FINA/Mastbank Swimming World Cup leg in Doha tonight, Hungary’s “Iron Lady” clipped the short course world record, clocking 4:20.83 in the 400 meters individual medley where her own world record from the Berlin leg of the 2013 World Cup series was 2:20.85. In the 100 meter IM later in the session, she was…
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High-Speed Canyon Jet Ski – Lake Powell
California Polytechnic State University student Christian Yellott recently captured some first-personGoPro footage of a fast jet ski trip through Mountain Sheep Canyon on Lake Powell in Arizona that bears more than a passing resemblance to a video game. Via Laughing Squid
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Grouper eats 4ft shark in one bite
Goliath grouper eating a black tip shark in one bite off the coast of Bonita Springs Florida. August 2014. Courtesy of Gimbb14 on YouTube
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Duke of Hawaii: A Swimmer and Surfer Who Straddled Two Cultures
Duke Kahanamoku, who won a total of five swimming medals in Olympics from 1912 to 1924, probably did more than anyone else to bring the sport of surfing from his native Hawaiian islands to the United States mainland. Almost in reverse, he also played a substantial part in the Americanization of old Hawaii. Born in…
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Japanese Swimming Has Momentum at Its Back
In 2012, Michael Phelps saw the writing on London’s Aquatic Centre scoreboard. In the third of four preliminary heats of the Olympic 400-meter individual medley, the Japanese teenager Kosuke Hagino clocked at 4 minutes 10.01 seconds. Phelps, the world-record holder in the event since 2002, remembered cringing, because he was in the final heat and…
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Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 57.25 and new 100 IM Short Course World Record
At the FINA/Mastbank Swimming World Cup leg in Doha this morning, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu set a new short course world record, clocking 57.25 in the 100 individual medley where here own world record from the World Cup leg in Berlin last year was 57.45. This during prelims, with the final coming up later today. See…
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Swimmers Abandon 76-Mile Swim After Multiple Shark Encounters
A team of swimmers attempting a 76-mile relay swim from Catalina Island to La Jolla Cove in support of wounded veterans abandoned the swim after multiple shark encounters, organizers said Sunday. The group of eight swimmers, three kayakers and a support boat left the city of Avalon on Catalina Island about 4:10 p.m. Friday and…
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Why is Breaststroke so strong in Scotland?
We caught up with Michael Jamieson, Ross Murdoch and Craig Benson about the strength of Scottish Breaststroke. Courtesy of Team Scotland on YouTube