Category: Fun
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The Olympics is a toy event to this 5-year-old
Funny, she’ll probably grow up and dream of having a tattoo with that.
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The Danish struck by the travel luck of Bjarnason
So, Pál Joensen is now on his first altitude camp ever, in Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, together with the Danish national team and a few other swimmers. But it was no easy trip from Copenhagen to the Sierras, as they had Pál’s coach Jón Bjarnason with them, who is notoriously unlucky when it comes…
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Learn to swim – Better Health Channel
Featuring Tammy van Wisse and a not-so-great up-and-coming swimmer called Tony Shaw. For more information about water safety, visit the Better Health Channel website.
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Soldier proposes (out) through aquarium window
Jake Schultheis “captured his only fish in the sea” with a pre-staged marriage proposal for girlfriend Cassidi Humphries on Thursday morning, a news release from the Virginia Aquarium said. It took a moment for Humphries to realize the message was intended just for her, but she got it when he got down on one knee,…
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Indonesia performs underwater Chinese opera (with dolphins)
To celebrate the Lunar New Year in 2012, the love story of Sampek Engtay was presented by Ocean Dream Samudra in Jakarta. “Who does not know about the Chinese legend of Sampek Engtay?” :-P Via NTDTV
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Autistic swimmer leads ‘normal’ swim team to first win
Hunter Develice trains just like any other swimmer on the Fond du Lac swimming team, but faces an extra obstacle on the way to the pool, as he was diagnosed with autism at the age of 4. “There were some people that told us a school swim team, maybe he should be just in a…
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Cat takes on hungry alligator
Brave little kitty ! :-) Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath
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Wow, dolphins can snore (or sleep-talk) whale ?
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…
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CC photo #25: “There is no plan B”
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…