Category: Fun
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Josh Hutcherson and The Rock freedive in new film Journey 2
The pair dive 100 feet down into the sea without the aid of a scuba tank as they search for Captain Nemo’s legendary submarine, Nautilus. Vanessa Hudgens also stars in the movie, doing underwater stunts that she wasn’t really comfortable with. Via mb.com “Shooting the underwater sequences was tough because I don’t do well in…
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Guinness “Swim Black”
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.
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The Coldest Thing on Coney Island
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…
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East Bohemian freediving under the ice
I’m not totally sure where this is, but the video description says FEB Hrádek, and other videos by MrSmahy mention www.feb.cz, which is the East Bohemia Freediver club in the Czech Republic. Hrádek means ‘small fort’ in Czech, there is a map here on their site mentioning Hradec close to the center of the map.…
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Michelle Obama vs Ellen DeGeneres in push-up contest
No spoilers here, you have to watch the video (or look it up)
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McNamara goes for the biggest waves with his oxygen-enhanced wetsuit
Garrett McNamara already holds the world record for the biggest wave surfed (90 feet off Nazaré, Portugal in November), but aims for even bigger with his customized wetsuit fitted with a special oxygen pocket by Camelbak, allowing him to breathe through a straw for a few minutes more. Crazy, read TMZ He also has a…