Category: Fun
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Victoria’s Secret Swim 2012: Angels, Islands and Tiny Swimsuits
Practical clothing in some exotic country I guess. Here in the Faroes, I’m just happy to have survived the drive home through the storm tonight. Sigh.
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Germans do polar bear swims too, here the 14. Dresden New Year’s Swim
Some 116 brave souls headed for the Elbe River this morning for the 14th annual Dresden New Year’s swim, facing pouring rain and muddy water about 2°C (35.6°F). Organizers asked participants to come in costume and many obliged. Read The Local
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Aquadettes
On Life, Death and Synchronized Swimming, a film by Drea Cooper & Zackary Canepari Aquadettes from California is a place. on Vimeo.
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Bungee jumper survives cord snapping, swimming the wild Zambezi river
22-year-old Australian backpacker Erin Langworthy fell 20 meters into the Zambezi river after the cord snapped while she was bungee jumping of bridge at Victoria Falls in Zambia. Feet still tied together, with a good part of the cord in tow, into the turbulent waters beneath the world’s largest waterfall. According to MailOnline infested with…
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Air sharks take to the skies, prompt air traffic alerts
The Air Swimmers sharks mentioned in August have been “extremely popular” gifts this Christmas, and reports of their escapes started almost as soon as presents were unwrapped. Some even before they made it to gift-giving, as for instance when grandpa Brian Thomson lost his on Christmas Day, before his grandchildren had a chance to play…
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More crazy pushup (and pullup) fun from Vági
Some youngsters from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag in Vágur, Faroe Islands strutting their stuff. I don’t know how ‘perfect’ their form is at times, but they’ve sure got the energy! That last Berns vs SuSvim face-off thing is an internal joke, I think, between the director here Jón Bjarnason (head coach of SuSvim) and Berns head coach…
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Mystery of disappearing 3.5 ton underwater statue off Italian coast
Authorities are baffled as to who – or what – could have removed the bronze statue of St Francis of Paola, which stands 7.2 ft (2.2 m) high and was securely embedded in concrete 95 ft (29 m) beneath the surface of the sea. One unexpected upside from the disappearance is that when investigating the…
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Victoria’s Secret Swim 2012: Behind the Scenes
No matching caps and goggles here, though maybe sunglasses.
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Let’s get cold! China hosts ice swim tournament
The craze is spreading, this is a Polar Bear Swim International in Northeastern China.