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  • Nyad hit another Man o’ War, had to quit

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    After more than 40 hours of swimming and hitting a second Portuguese Man o’ War, Diana Nyad decided to quit, told by her medical team that she could risk long-term cumulative effect on her body, if she suffered additional likely stings. She had then completed about 67 nautical miles of the 103-nautical-mile passage, and suffered…

  • Nyad stung in face by something, switches to “staged swim”

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    Diana Nyad was yesterday evening stung in the face by some kind of presumed jellyfish, and had to go out of the water for some hours to be treated by doctors. Her face and area the area around her eyes was affected, but she’s back in the water, swim switching to a “staged swim”, meaning…

  • Cooking pot & strong swimming saves grandmother from floods

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    Desperate to save his grandmother from floodwaters swamping southern Pakistan, Ali Ahmed and three other relatives stuck her in a large metal cooking pot and pulled her to safety through neck-high water. The men swam for several hours through driving rain, unable to rest because the water was too deep, finally reaching a road and…

  • Swimming with Killer Whales

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    The craze is spreading, brave Ingrid Visser swims with killer whales to capture (beautiful) videos like this below. I’m sure the Orca saw her as a possible replacement dinner, in case it didn’t catch the manta ray ;-) Via stuff.co.nz.

  • Sweet, a halo-bubble-blowing Beluga

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    You can look as innocent as you like, I know that you were up to something ! :-) The Telegraph via Neatorama

  • Japanese swimmers complete gratitude swim to Taiwan

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    Six Japanese men swam 150 kilometers (95 miles) through heavy winds and rough seas to reach the Taiwanese coast Monday in a show of gratitude to Taiwan for its US$260 million aid after the March earthquake and tsunami. Taiwan’s foreign minister Timothy Yang said at a cocktail party to welcome the swimmers, that he was…

  • Diving on the Salam Express

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    The ferry “Salam Express” sank in December 1991 while it was on its way home to Egypt from Saudi Arabia. On board there were officially 690 passengers, some estimate 1600, whereof only 200 survived. Diving on The Salam Express Red Sea 2011 from Karim Hamza on Vimeo.

  • Time Warp – Water & Professor Splash

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    Water droplet photography meets a Photron high speed camera for some serious ‘water in motion’ poetry. They also filmed shallow water Guiness Record holder Darren Taylor a.k.a. “Professor Splash” doing a high dive into a kiddie pool So let’s watch that shallow water world record

  • 6 Japanese swim to Taiwan to say thanks for US$260.5 million

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    Six Japanese swimmers are at the moment navigating 150 kilometers to Taiwan to show gratitude for the US$260.5 million aid the country provided following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disasters. Team leader Kazuya Suzuki said prior to the swimmers’ departure that their main fear is “not the current or typhoons, but the fragility of…