Author: rokur

Ant Williams can hold his breath for eight minutes underwater. Eight minutes. Underwater. Using just one, single breath and no tanks, he can dive 100 meters down, into the black folds of the ocean and safely return to the surface. One breath. For reference, many proficient free divers struggle to make it even 30 meters down. The pressure is too great. Read The Inertia https://youtu.be/MHhEAnD7NH4

What a bizarre question. If you could swim fast enough and produce enough heat, how fast EXACTLY would you need to swim to turn all of the water in the pool into STEAM? https://youtu.be/pMch4kmHG3c

Live from SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre. https://youtu.be/HJwqqoSp1-A

A senior at Seven Hills has qualified for the Olympic Trials. Matthew Marquardt qualified swimming the 200 meter backstroke in 2.03. Matthew is a multi-sport athlete but has really concentrated on swimming lately. He helped lead his high school swim team to back-to-back state championships for the first time in school history. He also swims with the Sea Wolves club team. He practices eight times a week for two hours at a time. “The way I see my story of swimming is that it’s one of kind of gradual progression. I wasn’t a super star right when I started swimming,…

Crews battled a fire at a old swim club in Pikesville Wednesday night. https://youtu.be/r_7Opn9J6Is

Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky on the National Team’s 2016 visit to Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station in Colorado Springs. https://youtu.be/zQ-b9A5WUCU

South Korea’s only Olympic swimming gold medalist Park Tae-Hwan will unlikely be allowed to race for his country in this year’s Rio Summer Olympic Games. https://youtu.be/rND-sKCvhsw

12 slightly mad swimmers braved the cold temperatures and aggressive swells of the Hauraki Gulf in a bid to raise money for the Westpac Rescue Helicopter on March 31, 2016. The swimmers launched off from Waiheke Island to battle the ocean for 5-7 hours before arriving at the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust Chopper base in Mechanics Bay. https://youtu.be/1Nv3soPv8LY

With a one-mile ice swim event being considered for inclusion at future Winter Olympics researchers at Winona State University in Minnesota and the International Ice Swimming Association (IISA) have investigated the performance and human physiological response in water -5° Celsius or less. The scientists analysed more than 80 ice swimmers ((71 male, 17 female) who completed ice mile swims, in an attempt to understand how age, gender and environmental factors such as wind chill affected performance. Ice swimming was a demonstration sport at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and is being considered as a permanent addition to the…

Olympic gold medallist Park Tae-hwan’s hopes of representing South Korea at Rio 2016 have been dashed after the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) refused to waive its rule on athletes competing at the Games who have failed drugs tests. Park, who won the men’s 400 metres freestyle race at Beijing 2008, was handed an 18-month ban after testing positive for testosterone before last year’s Asian Games in Incheon. The 26-year-old’s suspension ended on March 2 after he had his ban backdated to September 3, 2014, the date on which he provided the positive sample. He had hoped to be allowed to…