Author: rokur

Swim coaches Rob Marshall Hill and Seth Dawson have been identified as casualties of a single-engine plane crash Wednesday on Little Si near North Bend, Washington, according to for instance The Seattle Times. Both were swim coaches at Decatur High School and the Valley Aquatics Swim Team in South King County, Washington, 30-year-old Hill also a private flight instructor and pilot on this particular flight, and 31-year-old Dawson a local swim legend. Read for instance The Seattle Times, The Columbian, The Bellingham Herald and watch a touching video here on q13fox.com.

Despite being a natural-born swimmer, one small penguin at an animal park in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province is too timid to dive into the water. Penguins do know how to swim, but they have to learn how to climb up ashore, and can have problem with controlling their direction and speed while swimming. To help the young penguins gain more aquatic skills, their parents will cheer for them in the water and demonstrate proper form. If they take too long to make it back to the bank, trainers will rescue the birds to keep them from getting exhausted. Read more…

Interesting effects in this video, GoPros seem to be ever present by now.

Or as they say here on TMZ: “U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s won 6 medals — and even beat Michael Phelps — but that still doesn’t get him a pass for pretending to be the biggest d-bag in the pool. He is pretending … right?” video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

“7-time Olympic gold medalist, Aaron Peirsol, reappers from the mist in this surf video.” Quote Gold Medal Mel on Facebook

Photo taken from the athletes’ stand at the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships.

Matt Grevers’ surprise proposal to longtime girlfriend Annie Chandler has been the talk of the swimming community for the past week, and the happy couple join today’s edition of The Morning Swim Show to relive the experience. Grevers talks about the planning that went into the proposal, which started last December when he spent time with Chandler’s father over Christmas, asking permission and everything :-)

A lot of famous faces in this high quality video from the 2° Trofeo Città di Milano, February 3rd to 5th 2012, including Federica pellegrini, Filippo Magnini, Massimiliano Rosolino and Milorad Cavic. See results on nuotatorimilanesi.it.

“Hung-over-frozen-lake-dip in the “morning”, followed by much wallowing until still-hung-over-mountain-lake-hockey in the late afternoon.”

Val and Pete have been swimming together every morning for the past seventeen years. Once a year they have a race, two laps up and back. Two friends. One race. Two laps. No prisoners. Two Laps from Passion Pictures on Vimeo.