Category: Fun
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CC photo #20: A final talk before the Jóansøku 2011 swim
Two guys having a final chat before the Jóansøku 2011 open water swim across the Tvøroyri firth in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. As you see, we are not following the open water rules strictly, when it comes to gloves and caps and snorkels etc. But then again, with the water temperature seldom over 7ºC (44.6ºF), it…
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Phew, missing statue of St Francis is found
The 3.5-ton underwater statue of Saint Francis of Paola has been found, that disappeared in December. A patrol boat spotted a small floating buoy some 200 metres from the place where the statue was originally located, members of the Paola Divers Unit were called, and found the statue tied to the buoy’s mooring line, possibly…
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Axa commercial featuring Lotte Friis
It is her first television commercial, she says on Facebook. Axa is a Lantmännen brand of breakfast products, here promoting their oatmeal flakes in particular.
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Can you do this ? – SuSvim building upon the group pushups
Wow, a 4-man pushup with lift-off exercise, a 4-girl endurance session and … a, ehm, human pushup centipede ? (If you look closely, you’ll notice that the front man in the first exercise is Pál Joensen)
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CC photo #19: Lucky girl gets to lead Der Paul et al past the Rijeka 2008 audience
That Croatian girl seems pretty happy with her job, leading Mads Glæsner, Paul Biedermann and Massimiliano Rosolino (in that order) past photographers and audience after the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course men’s 400 freestyle medal ceremony. And yes, I must stress that she did wear clothes :-P
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Live manatee webcam goes online
The Save the Manatee Club debuted a live underwater camera on Tuesday morning at Blue Spring State Park, with which we’ll now be able to watch manatees seeking warm water refuge in the park’s spring run during the winter. Mmm, warm water … If you’re lucky, you might even see me ! :-D Watch live…
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Underwater dragon dance in Bangkok
Thailand prepared to welcome in the Year of the Black Water Dragon on Tuesday as the Lunar New Year approached. In Bangkok, children attended a unique performance which included an underwater Chinese dragon dance. Hmm, if they could make that go really fast, by wearing fins or riding some underwater jetski underneath the outfit, then it…
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Biologists capture rare photos of whales and dolphins playing together
Via Treehugger, they’re pretty excited that wild humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins take time out to play with each other off the coast of Hawaii. Unfortunately we only get to see shots of dolphins riding whales, and not the other way around :-P
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Behold Filip Jonker and his cardboard boat
Named after the tugboat in Jan de Hartog’s 1940 book Hollands Glorie (published in English as Captain Jan), Dutch artist Filip Jonker’s boat De Furie is 24 feet long and made out of standard honeycomb cardboard. Fitted with a 33-horsepower diesel engine, it made the trip from Enschede in Holland to London, crossing the English…