Author: rokur
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CC photo #622: First meet of the season 2013-2014
The very first heat in the very first meet, three young girls readying themselves for the launch of the 2013-2014 swim season here in the Faroe Islands.
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Man dies after rescuing child from hotel swimming pool
See ABC13 Investigators found that Hernandez, 27, died after receiving an apparent electric shock in the hotel pool. Witnesses tell investigators he saved his 10-year-old brother and his mother, after they and other guests felt what they believed to be a series of shocks and could not swim. Police say Hernandez went into cardiac arrest…
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Driver trapped under water survives in air bubble
See 9News Early Thursday morning, Roy Ortiz was driving to work when the world literally crumbled underneath his car. He went nose first into the rising flood waters and was trapped fearing the worst. “I’m completely stuck right there. So, I have to wait,” Ortiz said. He could not get out of the car, but…
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The Devil’s Pool
Via Laughing Squid In the short film “The Devil’s Pool,†filmmaker Casey Neistat recounts his single-minded mission to swim in Devil’s Pool, a notoriously dangerous natural pool at the edge of Victoria Falls in Southern Africa.
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Inventions Made Better: The Super Shower Slide
“Cleanliness is next to geniusness” http://youtu.be/0dkZ6WRP9uc
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”Wake Up Minneapolis” – Jeff Wagner takes his mayoral campaign for a swim
Putin’s got nothing on this guy !
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Name the mascot and win tickets for Herning 2013
The organizers of the Herning 2013 European Short Course Championships today presented the official mascot, ‘a true Danish viking who loves swimming’, along with a competition to win tickets for the event by finding him a fitting name. Send in your bid to SvømmeSport at journalister [at] svoem.dk before Sunday 22 September 2013, and you…
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Speedo Advisors | How to stay motivated by David McNulty
Swimming for fitness tips from David McNulty, how to stay motivated.