Month: June 2016
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Stanford Swimmer Rapist Defended by Dad For “20 Minutes of Action”
Brock Turner’s father, Dan, has sparked outrage online after saying that his son should not have to go to prison for “20 minutes of action.†Brock Turner, a former swimmer at Stanford University, was convicted of three felonies for the sexual assault of an unconscious woman and was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and probation.…
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Twenty Days Until 2016 Olympic Swim Trials
The calendar says -60- days from Rio 2016… And, can you believe it, just -20- days until Omaha hosts the Olympic swim trials. today our Erin Murray shows us how signs are starting to pop up across the city.
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Ocean fish prefer to eat dangerous microplastics rather than plankton new study finds
A study of European perch larvae found for the first time that exposure to high concentrations of microplastics stunts growth and alters their feeding habits, leading them to only eat plastic and ignore their natural food source of free swimming zooplankton. Experiments found the microplastic particles caused 15 percent fewer hatchings. What is more, two…
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Cave Diving El Toh – Yucatan
Shot by underwater filmmaker and photographer Jonas Pedersen, the short video chronicles diver Christoffer Brenna exploring the ‘El Toh’ cave in Yucatan, Mexico. It’s undeniably beautiful, and it may have been impossible to capture just a few short years ago because it was shot at ISOs ranging from 3200 all the way up to 50000!…
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Husky Blows Bubbles in Her Water Bowl
If you’re a Siberian Husky, then you do whatever it takes to stay cool in the summer. For Maya, that means blowing bubbles through her nose in her water dish. It’s fun, too! See Neatorama
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Video: Swimmer gets caught in sea of foam during Gold Coast storm
A swimmer in Australia has found himself having an unusual swim, as he stands amongst a swell of white foam. The footage posted by Cooly News on Facebook yesterday shows the man stunned, as he rises after being dunked by waves of foam at Froggy’s Beach on the Gold Coast. The foam covered such a…
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Egypt Bans Swimming off Red Sea Beach After Shark Attack
Egypt has imposed a 15-day ban on sport fishing and offshore swimming near a popular Red Sea destination where a shark attack took place last weekend. Environment Ministry officials Mohamed Salem and Beily Hatab say Monday the attack was likely caused by the combination of fishing and swimming in the same spot. The shark attack…
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Jewish ladies in New York fight for right to swim alone
A New York City municipal pool that maintains female-only hours so that Hasidic Jewish women can swim with no men present has raised alarms among critics who say the accommodation to a particular religious group violates the constitutional separation of church and state. But defenders say the women-only swim sessions at the Metropolitan Recreation Center…
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Video: Florida man rescues tangled juvenile shark
A Florida man was able to free a tangled juvenile nurse shark he spotted struggling during a freediving trip on Wednesday, and the whole thing was caught on video. Szilard Janko, an underwater photographer from Hallandale Beach, said the hook pierced the shark’s mouth and the attached line was wrapped around the reef near Anglin’s…