Category: Fun
-
Fishing under ice
What is happening here ? Fishing under ice from Juuso Mettälä on Vimeo.
-
New Years swimming to support domestic violence victims
In Maine, roughly half of the homicides over the past ten years have been caused by domestic violence. On New Year’s day, hundreds of people took a ‘Polar Bear’ plunge in the Atlantic ocean at Gooches Beach in Kennebunk to support those victims by raising money for Caring Unlimited. Read wcsh6.com and see video:
-
Keri-Anne Payne appointed as face of Max Factor
British Olympian Keri-Anne Payne has been signed as the face of Max Factor’s award winning False Lash Effect Gold Mascara. I don’t blame them. See for instance the Links of London blog, Grazia Daily and Payne’s own blog
-
Behold, a hamster-driven soda bottle submarine
Another technological feat of mankind, this functional hamster wheel powered “HPS Hamstar” submarine made out of a 3-liter soda bottle. Project page is here, with photos and stuff so that you can construct one yourself, and a materials list disclosing that the biggest cost was the $12 hamster Houdina, now retired after one voyage. Via…
-
World swim cap wearing record set at the 2012 Tybee Island Polar Plunge
You might not have know about it, but the Guinness world record for the largest gathering of people wearing swim caps was 546 people, set in Japan in July 2011. Now it is American, with 2045 people absolutely demolishing the record at the 2012 Tybee Island Polar Plunge in Georgia, USA. Via The Graveyard shift
-
Swimming With Manatees
Finally someone going for a warm dip in wetsuits with aquatic wildlife on New Year’s Eve, rather than an icy dip with wild people the day after ! :-) Swimming with Manatees from Jess Wang on Vimeo.
-
Vancouver Polar Bear Swim 2012
People going crazy on Polar Bear Swim 2012 at English Bay, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. Air temperature: 5ºC / 41ºF. Water temperature: 7.7ºC / 46ºF. Polar Bear Swim 2012 from Beto Galetto on Vimeo.
-
Carry and Keri-Anne having Kopi Luwak (cat poo) coffee
Fun tweet from David Carry, who has been testing some Kopi Luwak coffee. We’re talking coffee made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet (Toddy Cat), defecated, gathered, washed, sun dried, roasted and brewed. And then drunk by people as the most expensive coffee in the world…
-
CC photo #3: Thumbs up from Alex in Budapest
So this photo is from when I was shooting some sponsor photos of Pál and the rest of us at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships competition pool, between prelims and finals the penultimate day of the meet. European 100 meter breaststroke champion Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) was swimming more or less alone in the…