Author: rokur
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Swimmer dies after being rescued from Dublin Bay
Read Irish Times The alarm was raised at about 11.20am yesterday when the 35-year-old went swimming off Dalkey Island and did not return. A major search operation was launched and the Garda Water Unit pulled the man from the sea south of Sorrento Terrace. The man was airlifted to Tallaght Hospital, where he later died.
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CC photo #464: George Bovell III at Istanbul 2012
Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell III making his entrance at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Here the men’s 50 freestyle final, he was 4th in 21.03, see the result list here.
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AZ To Hire Minority Lifeguards Who ‘Can’t Swim’
Via Breibart http://youtu.be/dHDseHidt1w
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Amazon’s Olympics have swimming too, only with piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles
Read The Guardian, via Neatorama Poised on the starting blocks at the Olympics, the 15 swimmers had good reason to feel apprehensive. But the cause of their nervousness was not the race itself – it was the piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles lurking in the turbid waters below. […] The swimming events all take place in…
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Curious sea lion pup dives into night diving diver’s kayak
… and scares the bejesus out of him :-) See PetaPixel Scuba diver Rick Coleman was getting ready to jump into his kayak and head home, when a sea lion pup jumped up and sat himself (or herself) down on his bow.