Author: 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 :-)

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Via GeekoSystem Last week, we found out that dolphins get high by chewing on puffer fish, and the discovery was caught on hidden camera, but the footage was part of a not-yet-released BBC nature documentary. Today, the BBC finally uploaded a clip of the dolphins passing the puffer (fish) around and being mesmerized by their own reflections. Oh, and it’s narrated by David Tennant. http://youtu.be/rZ2ZWUYPzE8

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Read for instance Mail Online (photos obviously NSFW) Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world’s largest skinny dip. Basking in the glow of a warm summer’s day down-under, the 745 nude swimmers swarmed into the water on the coast of Gisborne in northeastern New Zealand. […] Gisborne took the Guinness World Record for the largest skinny dip last year when 506 swimmers went for a naked dip, but the attempt was overshadowed by a nude horde of 729 on Playa El Playazo beach…

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“Bored in Paradise…. set my GoPro Hero 3 up outside one of the crab holes at a dive resort in Fiji (Maidive). I used the new GoPro app and wifi to sit and wait for the crab to appear and hit record from the building in the background. It all looked great until he disappeared with the camera down his hole.” http://youtu.be/YJLJxnDvq3M

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See 10News “As steam rose from the glowing blue pool, around a dozen swimmers at the Brandon Sports and Aquatic Center crisscrossed, lap after lap, Wednesday morning. The high schoolers braved the cold weather Wednesday to keep up a twice-a-week training plan that puts them in the pool during the day’s coldest time, from 5-7 a.m.”

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See news4jax.com “We are all struggling to deal with these chilly temperatures, but imagine having to jump in a pool. Students on the Episcopal High School swim team are doing just that.” video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

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