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  • Garrett Weber-Gale was on Danish TV tonight

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    A short segment on TV2 tonight about his ‘holiday’ at Noma, working in the kitchen of the number one restaurant in the world. The subtitle says “I come here and work for hours in the kichen. It is tedious and hard.” If you have trouble with any other Danish speak in the segment, then please…

  • Garrett Weber-Gale keeps eating crazy stuff at Noma

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    First it was live prawns, and now some guy from Brazil produces a fly and says that it is edible. As if we didn’t learn already at kindergarden, not to eat stuff just because some other guy says that you can. How many of you would eat this? I did. Brazilian chef brought them to…

  • Woman fishes leg out of lake, lost 3 years earlier by a swimmer

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    A woman fishing near her home on Lake Ida in Minnesota said she reeled in a prosthetic leg three years after it was lost by a swimmer. She tries to track down the leg’s owner, who turns out to be another resident at Lake Ida who lost her leg while swimming three years ago. Leg…

  • Dream Machine – Fiji Water 2011

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    Tatiana and Verda enjoying the water in and around Fiji. Yes, we are in the GoPro zone again, capturing beautiful video no matter if it is in, on or above water, or in the transition between these places. DREAM MACHINE – FIJI WATER – 2011 from Tatiana Howard on Vimeo.

  • Aww, swim with tigers at Dade City zoo

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    The nonprofit Dade City’s Wild Things sanctuary in Pasco County is hoping that cat lovers will pay $200 a pop for the chance to take a dip with a tiger cub. Just don’t be around when momma comes home! Via Tampa Bay Online. Here’s another video from Tampa Bay Online …

  • Lynx sets shower world record with 152 models

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    Ehh, this video is at the very limit of what will pass as material for this site, but unfortunately you don’t get much more swimming relevant than a ‘shower world record’. Now standing at 152 persons, beating the old record of mere 145 persons from 2009, which apparently took a good deal of squeezing. Did…

  • Underwater boxing in 1939

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    This video shows a boxing match that allegedly took place in 1939 at Wembley Empire Pool in London. Unbelievable! Doobybrain via Neatorama.

  • Behold, Frederik of Denmark and a 100-kilo sunfish

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    While visiting the oceanarium Nordsømuseet in Hirtshals today, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark took time off to don a dive suit and feed the fishes, being the experienced ‘frømand‘ (Danish Navy Seal) that he is. Biggest attractions there are three sunfishes, whereof the biggest called Anton is well above 100 kg in weight. The sunfishes…

  • 2-year-old Caitlin clocks 9 meters in 47 seconds

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    Caitlin Morris from Stourport, England started learning to swim when she was 9 months old – 6 months before she could walk. Now she manages 9 meters in 47 seconds using a doggy-paddle style stroke, an ability that her instructor at Baba Seahorse rates as that of a 4-year-old. Here below she swims alongside big…