Month: June 2015
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2017 World Aquatics Championships: EUR 157m Price Tag for Hungary’s Largest-Ever Sports Event
Hosting the 2017 FINA World Aquatics Championships could cost Hungary 49 billion forints (EUR 157m), though the budget would recover about 10 billion forints in the form of VAT, the government’s commissioner for priority investments in the capital has said. Balázs Fürjes said the construction of an aquatics centre in the north of the capital that…
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Surviving 42 Minutes Underwater…How Boy Beat the Odds
A teenager in Italy recently beat some incredible odds when he survived for 42 minutes underwater, according to news reports. The 14-year-old boy, identified only as “Michael” by the Italian newspaper Milan Chronicle, reportedly dove off a bridge into a canal with some friends last month and never resurfaced. His foot became caught on something…
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How to Keep USA Pools From Becoming A Flat Earth Society
There has been a recent push of articles regarding banning breath holding in pools lately as well as a segment on Good Morning America. This media coverage and efforts by certain interest groups has resulted in the ban of breath holding activities in New York City and Santa Barbara, California. I do not deny that…
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Aussie Free diver alive after 16 hours at sea; ‘I Did Not Expect The outcome’
A Wickham teenager who survived a “scary†16-hour ordeal after becoming stranded while free-diving off the Pilbara coast swam for up to seven hours and thought he was going to die before he finally reached land. Mr Saylor, who had been free-diving with three friends on Monday, was found about 6.40am on a beach on…
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Keri-Anne Payne targets gold at Rio 2016 Olympics
Olympic silver medallist Keri-Anne Payne hopes the support she has received in the absence of Team GB funding can propel her to the gold medal at Rio 2016. Payne, who finished second in the inaugural 10km open water swim at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, lost financial assistance when she decided to take a break from…
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Swimming May Slow Down Aging for Decades
Swimming is good for just about everyone. It accommodates all ages, stages, abilities and disabilities. There’s also evidence it can slow down the aging process. A long-term study at Indiana University Bloomington’s Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming found that Masters Swimmers (over age 35) who swam roughly 3,200 to 4,500 metres (about 3.2…
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Swimjitsu Launches as Fun, New Introduction to Swimming
Creating a unique and fun introduction to launch newcomers to swimming, USA Swimming has developed SwimJitsu – a new grow-the-sport program that combines swimming, inflatable obstacles and cannonballs. SwimJitsu is an in-water obstacle course that includes a series of entry-level swimming skills stages and 10 entertaining tasks. Participants become “swimjas†(a combination of swimming and ninja)…
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Libby Trickett and Eamon Sullivan swim with the Whale Sharks in Exmouth
Olympians Libby Trickett and Eamon Sullivan had some #SuperSeriousFun in Exmouth not long ago when they went swimming with the whale sharks and manta-rays plus a whole lot of snorkeling as part of the BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series.
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Hawaii Island man dies after being impaled by swordfish
The victim originally jumped into the water in Honokohau Harbor and speared the fish.