Year: 2016
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Russian Team Sets New World Record for Deepest Ice Dive
This weekend, two Russian explorers, Maxim Astakhov and Alexander Gubin, have set a new world record for deepest ice dive as part of their work with the Russian Geographical Society. The two men descended 102 meters (335 feet) during an 80-minute dive in the White Sea, just outside the Arctic Circle, as part of the…
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Katie Ledecky spends 72 hours coming up short, intentionally
For 72 hours here, Katie Ledecky got to see how the other half lives. The half that doesn’t necessarily need to swim 70,000 grueling yards every week in practice to achieve its goals. The half that measures its times in fractions of seconds, not whole ones. The half that doesn’t set or threaten world records…
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Alicia Coutts: ‘It sucks the life out of everybody around you; it is pure evil’
I was six months old when my dad was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Being so young and seeing my dad go through his fight with cancer was hard to really understand. He passed away on the day of my first ever swimming carnival. I was just seven years old. My mum said I wasn’t going…
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Pellegrini publishes phone number in Twitter gaffe
Italian former Olympic swimming champion Federica Pellegrini accidentally left her address and mobile phone number for all to see when she posted a photograph on Twitter on Friday. The 27-year-old Pellegrini, whose Twitter account @mafaldina88 has 455 000 followers, tweeted on Friday morning that she had been subjected to a random doping test and posted…
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Smart Eel switches aquarium for snacks, returns for alibi
The eel swam in his own, otherwise empty tank at the FairPrice Ultra supermarket in the Changi Business Park in Singapore. He noticed that the neighboring tank had tasty prawns, so he slipped over the barrier and had a snack. YouTube user itedaniel recorded the eel then returning to his own tank. See Neatorama
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Bernard Bear – 107 – Swimming
Bernard wants to relax in the pool but Lloyd has other plans. He wants to teach Bernard how to become a good swimmer – or at least how not to drown.
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The March Charge Ambassadors – Alicia Coutts
Alicia knows the cost of the War on Cancer. She wants to obliterate it. Will you help? 1/3 of cancers can be prevented by a healthy lifestyle. This March, push yourself 1/3 FURTHER/FASTER/HARDER and let’s obliterate cancer once and for all. See Alicia’s story now at: http://www.themarchcharge.com.au/ https://youtu.be/erllyCC2oAo
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Swimming With Sperm Whales – Super Giant Animals – BBC
Steve Backshall has an amazing experience as he swims with two whales who interact with him.
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How to Swim | A Classic Mickey Cartoon | Have A Laugh
Goofy learns to swim – more or less – in this classic Disney cartoon short.