Swimmer's Daily

Year: 2014

  • Katie Ledecky has more than Olympics on her mind

    Katie Ledecky has more than Olympics on her mind

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    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…

  • Swimmers ignore lightning threat, sharks for swim race

    Swimmers ignore lightning threat, sharks for swim race

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    Swimmers competing in the Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim had more than just other competitors to worry about.

  • Watch as Great White sharks attack underwater cameras

    Watch as Great White sharks attack underwater cameras

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    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.

  • For Michael Phelps, there’s no place like home

    For Michael Phelps, there’s no place like home

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    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…

  • The Ripple Effect – How a Small Oz Town Produced 5 Surf Champions

    The Ripple Effect – How a Small Oz Town Produced 5 Surf Champions

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    Five thousand. That’s the population of Coolangatta, Australia. Yet someway, somehow, this tiny town has produced more surfing world champions than anywhere else in the world. A lot of that has to do with the local wave. You may have heard of it – it’s called the Superbank. But in The Ripple Effect, we learn…

  • High Diving comes to Russia

    High Diving comes to Russia

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    Following the remarkable introduction of High Diving in the FINA World Championships programme and crowning moment of the first-ever World champions in Barcelona (ESP) last year, Kazan (RUS) will host the inaugural edition of the FINA High Diving World Cup on August 8-10, 2014. Two events are on the programme: a men’s competition in three…

  • LEN moves 2015 Short Course Europeans to December

    LEN moves 2015 Short Course Europeans to December

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    With a majority decision, through mail vote, the LEN Bureau approved to move the next European Short Course Swimming Championships from January to December 2015. Earlier this year LEN allocated the next edition of the European Short Course Swimming Championships to the city of Netanya (ISR) – the dates of the event were set at…

  • Dolphins surfing off Esperance, Western Australia

    Dolphins surfing off Esperance, Western Australia

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    Dave filmed this amazing aerial vision with his quadcopter off Esperance, along south Western Australia’s beautiful coastline. Huge pods of bottlenose dolphins cruise the shoreline and surf the crystal clear turquoise waves.

  • “Girl Water Diviner” – original 1954 reel from British Pathe

    “Girl Water Diviner” – original 1954 reel from British Pathe

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    Catherine Bent is a female water diviner whose body is highly sensitive to nature and physical elements. She identifies spots where water and underground streams can be tapped into, using a bizarre zombie-like walk which throws her body around so violently that “sometimes she falls flat on her face”.