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Our friends at Optus have put together an overview of the importance of underwater in short course. https://youtu.be/pGLbafwubRs

Raw video: Group of friends in for shock while visiting beach in New Zealand. https://youtu.be/VpheZvUQ4VA

Find out more about Maarten’s fundraising efforts and his amazing 200km Elfstedentocht swim in August next year, all in aid of cancer research: http://maartenvanderweijdenfoundation… https://youtu.be/uy3sJ13ZaEU

Ona Carbonell is the captain of the Spanish synchronized swimming team and fashion designer, can she recreate and train in an 1920´s synchro swimsuit? https://youtu.be/FvmDBV5_egU

The Sacramento Police Department beat out six groups of Grant High School students in a friendly swim relay race on Oct. 23 at the school’s new pool. Officers who patrol the Del Paso Heights area near the school split up into five teams to take on the Grant High School Junior ROTC, student government, swim team and other student organizations, with the police taking the top spot and the Grant swim team taking second and third place. Officers swam in full uniform and bare feet (save one officer, who wore socks), while students wore swimsuits. See The Sacramento Bee

Of the ten sportsmen and women who received the most media coverage between October 1st last year and September 30th this year, five were men and five were women, according to fresh statistics. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic topped the list. A whopping 35,619 articles were written about the footballer last year according to the figures compiled by media analysts Retriever and newswire TT. He was followed by national men’s football team manager Janne Andersson (with a somewhat more modest 19,639 articles), popular skier Charlotte Kalla, golfer Henrik Stenson, record-breaking swimmer Sarah Sjöström, ex-women’s football manager Pia Sundhage, footballer Lotta Schelin,…

A British diver separated from his boat off the coast of Australia has said he was lucky to be alive after being forced to swim miles back to shore – shadowed by a large tiger shark. The spear fisherman, John Craig, was underwater off Western Australia state Friday when his boat was swept away due to engine problems and strong currents. He told the BBC that sharks gravitated towards him because stress had raised his heart rate. Read The Telegraph https://youtu.be/dc_jUnt5Hm0

Yusra Mardini’s incredible story has taken another turn, as the Syrian refugee and Olympic swimmer recently signed an endorsement deal with Under Armour. “I shouldn’t be alive today,” Mardini says in a promotional video released by Under Armour. “I should have been one of the many faceless refugees who died along the way. But I am here. Because I kept moving.” Read Sports Illustrated https://youtu.be/R18JNX5vhQU Through will and determination, @YusraMardini realized her dream of becoming an Olympian swimmer. Welcome to #TeamUA, Yusra! #IWILL pic.twitter.com/5ueK9RUHl4— Under Armour (@UnderArmour) October 19, 2017

In California, bicycles are not allowed in swimming pools. In Delaware, it’s illegal to consume perfume. These are among the bizarre and obscure laws that have made their way into America’s state and local legislation and that photographer Olivia Locher chose to document in her latest collection of photographs, “I Fought the Law.” Locher began the project after a friend told her that it’s illegal in Alabama to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket. “That idea, it kept haunting me for many months,” she said from New York City’s Steven Kasher Gallery, where the exhibition is now on…

A friendly kayaker saved the life of a very lost iguana he found swimming four miles out to sea. The fisherman, who runs YouTube channel Key West Kayak Fishing, said it was “pretty crazy to see the guy so far out”. He was on a fishing trip off the Florida Keys archipelago when he bumped into the struggling reptile who gratefully hopped onto his kayak. See The Telegraph https://youtu.be/o8R5f2kNo0A