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 :-)

“I was very surprised, to say the least,” Lance Armstrong said after his incredible runner-up finish at today’s Ironman 70.3 Panama. “It was a completely new experience for me. I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know strategically how these races go down, so I tried to feel my way out on the bike and basically take a crash course in 70.3s.” Read more here on ironman.com

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Marine ecologist Rodney Rountree modified a few mp3-players into waterproof, deep-sea recording devices, attached them to crab traps and sent them 2000 feet below the ocean’s surface for 24 hours. As expected they heard whales and stuff that they could identify, but also frequent samples of at least 12 deep-sea sounds that they couldn’t identify, including something sounding like a bird whistling and duck-like quacks. They think it is deep-sea fish communicating, I have another theory (see picture to the right). Via Scientific American

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This is something they call The Ice Castles at Silverthorne, located in Colorado, USA. Beautiful, but I’m sure it looks more romantic and warm than it is :-)

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Sunday 12th February 2012, freediver Michele Tomasi will attempt to break the current Guinness record of swimming a distance under ice (with monofin), at Lago Santo in Val Cembra (Trento – Italy). The record stands at 110 meters, swum by Turkish freediver Åžahika Ercümen in the Weissensee lake in Austria back in February 2011. Follow the record attempt here on the Rane Neri website. Via Deeper Blue

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A funny read, this thing on Gadling Not more than two seconds after reaching the bottom, however, his eyes excitedly bulged and appeared to double in size as seen through the fog of his mask. Slowly, he raised a focused finger at something apparently located behind me. For anyone who hasn’t spent much time underwater, regardless of how comfortable you are in the ocean, you never, ever, want to see someone with wide eyes pointing directly behind you. Music starts playing, drums start thumping, and you can almost feel the teeth sinking into the nape of your neck.

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