Category: Fun
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Bob the dog knows how to dive
Impressive, the stray dog Bob dives easily to depths of eight feet to fish out his toys. And we get a glimpse of the Canadian sport Octo-Pushing, a kind of underwater hockey where swimmers use home-made sticks to push a weighted puck around the bottom of a swimming pool. And of someone tumbling on a…
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SWIM. – Behind the scenes / day two
It is only day two of the shooting of SWIM. – Short Movie, and already there is a bit of a crisis. Or not :-) SWIM – Behind the Scenes / Day Two from SWIM. – Short Film on Vimeo.
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Principal to swim with sharks after students meet challenge
Aaah, Principal Fradley has surely learned a lesson about motivation, promising to swim with the sharks at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa, if his students raised more than $20,000 at a Walk-A-Thon in September. “I really didn’t think they would do it, because last year we raised $12,000,” Dr. Fradley said. Oh well, they did,…
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Freedance (Freediving in Bozburun)
So I have a weakness for freediving, deal with it :-) Freedance (Freediving in Bozburun) from mert gokalp on Vimeo.
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SWIM. – a short film being shot in British Columbia
A short film is being shot these days at the UBC Aquatics Centre in Vancouver, Canada, November 17th-21st 2011, by UBC Film Production. That is one thing, but they are at the same time producing great ‘behind the scenes’ shots, here from day one: SWIM – Behind the Scenes / Day One from SWIM. –…
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Three young girls completed the Alcatraz swim today
Kenya Lam, 12, Malia Martin, 13, and Isabella Des Roches, 11, have been training with a swim coach since September to embark on the 1.25 miles swim from Alcatraz to the San Francisco shore today, and completed it despite of frigid November waters. They would have liked to do the swim with an organized group,…
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Lucky girl gets one of Michael Phelps’ Minneapolis gold medals
Gracie Abdallah went to the Minneapolis Grand Prix hoping to meet her favorite swimmers and take a few autographs back to Sioux falls with her. Her marigold-yellow T-shirt has the names of nearly a dozen swimmers scrawled on it with a black Sharpie, but the greatest sovenier was one of Michael Phelps’ gold medals from…
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HzO can also waterproof you mobile phone
Waterproofing nanotechnology popping up everywhere these days, during a press preview for the upcoming 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, a company called HzO showed of some kind of technology that creates a “nano-scale film barrier” with the circuitry of for instance a mobile phone, that rather than keep water out, allows water too creep inside without…