Year: 2019
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Whales Have Been Spotted Swimming in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the First Time
While conducting research for the Ocean Cleanup’s Aerial Expedition, scientists spotted whales swimming through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for the first time. In a new study published in the journal Marine Biodiversity, researchers shared their findings from the survey and documented the sightings. “It is well known that ocean plastics pose a threat to marine mammals, with many…
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Anna Deacon: Swimming for a Reason
My focus is to find out what motivates people to swim in freezing cold water all year round. Mainly because I love it too and I realised, through doing it, that I was meeting some extraordinary people along the way, all with amazing stories
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Budapest REWIND | Best Bits | ISL
Re-live the best bits from the fourth match in the ISL. Budapest put on a show as London Roar recorded a second victory on the bounce.
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40 swimmers to represent Kenya at the 2019 CANA Zone 3 swimming championship
Forty swimmers will represent the country at the 2019 CANA Zone 3 swimming championship to be held from the 28th of November to December 1st at the Kasarani Aquatic Centre. However, a total of 80 Kenyan swimmers will take part in the tournament, with the additional 40 competing to gauge their fitness.
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Cambridge graduate drowned in swimming pool during ‘breath-holding contest’
A Cambridge graduate who drowned in a swimming pool during a party at his family home had been playing a game to see how long he could hold his breath underwater, an inquest heard. Dominic Hamlyn, 24, died earlier this year after friends pulled him from the pool during a party at his home for…
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High School Swimmer Continues to Compete During Chemotherapy
A junior at Thornapple Kellog High School in Michigan is battling cancer as she finishes the swim season with her team. Lydia Cole has been swimming for the past 11 years and throughout her high school career.
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Olympic swimmer to kick off National Diabetes Awareness Month
The NMU Student Nurses Association and the U.P. Diabetes Outreach Network are hosting former Olympic swimmer, Gary Hall Jr., on Friday. Gary Hall Jr. is an Olympic swimmer (1996, 2000, 2004) and winner of 10 Olympic medals (5 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze). He was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1999 while he…
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Greatness Starts Somewhere
As anticipation and excitement builds for Tokyo 2020, Swimming Australia is proud to unveil its Olympic and Paralympic campaign ‘Greatness Starts Somewhere’.
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Turkish diver Åžahika Ercümen breaks women’s free-diving world record
National sportswoman and world record-holding diver Şahika Ercümen on Oct. 28 broke the 90-meter women’s cave diving (without fins) world record at the Gilindire Cave in Aydıncık, a town in southern Turkey’s Mersin. The cave was discovered by a shepherd in 1999 and dates back to the Ice Age. The freestyle driver said she was overjoyed at earning the…