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Brave little kitty ! :-) Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Behold, Casio’s official G-Shock smartphone, shock resistant to 10 feet, water resistant to 1.0 bar (10m), pressure resistant to 1.0 ton, and with real, stopwatch-friendly physical buttons around the perimeter of the device rather than the usual set of Android (or iPhone) capacitive buttons. Via phandroid

Some people still think it is safe to go swimming in waterways across the Northern Territory in Australia, but Environment Department director of conservation and wildlife Brett Easton warns that they are taking huge risks by mistakenly assuming crocodiles do not inhabit them. “Some of the things that we heard continually is that it was fairly shallow and it was clear, and you could see very well,” he said, “or it was fast moving, so apparently crocodiles won’t come to fast-moving water”. “The classic is you send the dog in first, which, as you probably know, is a very good…

The concept of the ‘rogue’ shark, seeking revenge on its human nemesis is nothing more that Hollywood fodder, says Christopher Neff, researcher at the University of Sydney carrying out the world’s first PhD on the politics of ‘shark bite incidents’. He says we should drop the term ‘attack’ and all the other emotive language as sensationalist and misleading. ‘Swimmers are in the way, not on the menu,’ he says, ‘there is no evidence any shark species develops a taste for human flesh.’ Read more here on Sail-World.

A week early, cathing Huegill plus a few organisers of the West Australian training camp by surprise last Saturday. Read the telegraph

At 62, record-smashing endurance swimmer Diana Nyad set out to swim from Cuba to Florida, she tells here dramatic story here, including the real reason she set herself such a tremendous task. There is a Q&A follow up too

Dolphins are known mimics, able to make whale sounds because they’ve heard them before. Now a recent study suggest that they can do this even while asleep, and even though they were born in captivity, and therefore never met actually a whale. Researchers from the University of Rennes in France placed underwater microphones in a tank of performing dolphins at the Planète Sauvage dolphinarium to investigate the sounds they make at night, and recorded 25 sound they’d never heard before when the dolphins were thought to be sleeping, some of them very similar to whale songs. The guess is that…

Fun moment just after the “2nd Swimming Championships of the Small States of Europe” June 12-13, 2010 in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland. We were on our way for post-race practice, but missed the bus because a (non-swimming) team member was late. So coach decided to use the 20 earned minutes well by going trough today’s program, with Magnus (in the green hat) as translator and demonstrator. That poster in the background was just appropriate ! :-)

John Kapp claims to have found a little piece of the Caribbean off the Sussex coast, about the size of a football pitch and above a foot deep, where he has been swimming for up to three-quarters of an hour in just his swimming trunks in what should be icy waters. He says the water there is about 20ºC (68ºC), and the reason for it being so hot is the nearby Shoreham power station. Read The Argus.

“In 1929, Johnny Weissmuller inaugurated the Molitor swimming pool in Paris. This wonderfull art deco building is planned to be destroyed in 2012. This giant collage is a giant tribute to the olympic champ aswell as a bridge between this golden era and today.” 12oz via Upper Playground