Jacksonville’s Mayor Curry announced an initiative promoting swim safety as city pools plan to open and the concern over drownings continues. https://youtu.be/V0xN3mi2Omo
Author: rokur
rokur
Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)
A tourist is spending his vacation recovering in a hospital after he was struck by a watercraft while swimming. https://youtu.be/P0mO1byCPXA
Dreams expert Ian Wallace offers advice to callers. https://youtu.be/Y48nkI26hWU
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advert by Taiwanese electronics company HTC featuring Olympic diver Tom Daley, after it implied that one of its mobile phones could be used in swimming pools. The ad sees Mr Daley using the HTC U11 to take selfies while diving from a board and landing in the swimming pool below, submerging the phone in the water. But a complainant contacted the ASA after noting that while the instructions for the phone stated it was water resistant in fresh water, the ad misleadingly implied the product would also work in a pool with chlorinated water. HTC Europe…
Another Wonderful Day at the pool! https://youtu.be/pDXxyquVB78
The men’s Europa Cup Super Final in Rijeka began with Spain’s stunning 7-goal win over Olympic silver medallist Italy. Olympic champion Serbia didn’t leave too much chance to arch-rival Montenegro while host Croatia blew France away. Hungary and Greece produced the opening day’s best encounter which ended in a thrilling 9-9 draw. The opening match couldn’t have been any better as it offered some brilliant goals and loads of excitements. Greece enjoyed a great spell in the second period, scoring five goals but Hungary responded well with a 3-0 rush in the third to equalise at 6-6. Still, the Greeks…
Gold Coast – South Africa’s Chad le Clos said on Thursday he would rather come second in the Commonwealth Games 50m butterfly after gold medal favourite Ben Proud was disqualified for a false start. Proud dominated Le Clos in their heat and clocked what would have been a Games record 22:84 seconds, but England’s defending champion was adjudged to have moved early on the blocks. It left Le Clos as the fastest swimmer in the morning’s prelims in Gold Coast with a time of 23.53. But the four-time world champion insisted he would prefer to line up against Proud than…
Courtesy of Reviews for Product History Of Swimming In October 1933, about 10,000 years old cave and Rock swimming art were originated by Hungarian explorer ‘Laszloalmasy’. It is named due to portraits of people with bent limbs and contains painted rocks pictures. In Mehenjo Daro Pakistan, ‘Great Bath’ was the first swimming pool since 2800. Books In 1953: The first swimming book named ‘Colymbetes’ was written by German professor Nikolauswynmann. His main purpose was to minimize the danger. In 1587: A swimming book was also written by Everard Digby whose aim was that Humans can swim better than fishes. In 1595: A book…
How well do our #OurTeamGC know their roomates? Find out all the goss. https://youtu.be/hdww1ezaO_s
The annual April Fool’s Day Swim for charity, sponsored by the Chatham Cape Cod fire department, was held on April 2nd this year due to the 1st falling on Easter Sunday. Despite a day of snow and drizzle and 39 ° water temperature at Hardings Beach, about 50 brave people took the plunge and had a great time doing it. Shot and edited with a Galaxy S8 in slow motion mode. https://youtu.be/eIVTGzWve5w