Author: rokur

Whitner Milner died in the family pool from shallow water blackout, which experts believe to be the #1 cause of swimming-related deaths. Rhonda Milner, MD, is working with pool expert Tom Griffiths and Clarion, the safety sign company, to bring awareness to the danger, pointing to the 3 criteria of shallow water blackout: That it is competitive, repetitive and involves over-breathing. A sobering reply to that intelligence-inducing story earlier this evening. Clarion: Drowning Prevention from Christopher King on Vimeo.

With less than five months to go, some are questioning whether the University of Maryland’s formula for saving its men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams was developed in good faith, or merely as a public relations stunt. They are supposed to raise $11.6 million by June 30, and have raised $1 million so far.

One of the fastest men on the planet, George Bovell from Trinidad and Tobago shares some of his favorite drills for improving freestyle, courtesy of The Race Club.

I’m not very comfortable with having a beer commercial on this site, but the build-up story is just so great that, well, please avert your eyes when we come to the brand :-) Guinness “Swim Black” from Smoke & Mirrors on Vimeo.

Enjoy the celebration of thousand of swimmers as they welcomed 2012 with the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day Swim. Beware, there is a quite NSFW lady taking the plunge in just ‘tassels and a thong’, having promised to do so if she raised $5000 dollars for a young boy with a rare brain disease. And if you peek (as I know some people other than me who did), dig that man in the yellow cap doing the same, while his son covers his eyes :-) The Coldest Thing on Coney Island from Hi – Tide Films…

Via the17thman

Fantastic :-) Ellery Swimming II from rob b on Vimeo.

Team GB’s first black female swimmer Achieng Ajulu-Bushell has taken a swipe at the sport’s national governing body for failing to support her while at a plateau in her progress. Widely regarded as one of Britain’s brighest talents, she recently dropped out of British Swimming’s World Class Performance program, and will now turn her attentions on achieving the grades needed to land a place at Oxford University in September. Saying that she would “rather have a first-class degree than an Olympic medal”, and following it up with this scathing remark: “It is my easiest way of justifying it (not competing…

Orcas have until now been prevented from moving into the Arctic regions because of their large dorsal fins impeding passage in and around sea ice. But with the ice melting, they range also northward, decimating populations of marine mammals and threatening the Inuit’s food supply. In the most gory way, killing for sport on occasion and wasting food. Still think they are the most beautiful thing out there, but don’t doubt their “killer” nickname The bowhead doesn’t stand a chance. His killers have surrounded him, holding him underwater and covering his blowhole so he can’t breathe. They immobilize his flippers…

According to Dr. Win Wenger, author of 48 books including How To Increase Your Intelligence and The Einstein Factor, we can all gain 10 or more IQ points if we accumulate 20 hours of held-breath underwater swimming in doses of 20-180 seconds at a time over a 3 week period. Including better span of attention, better span of awareness, better awareness of the interrelatedness of things and of ideas and/or perceptions, and better ability to win arguments and disputes. How can we not love this theory, especially when he stresses that this has to be truly underwater – not just holding…