Category: Science
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Free diver and shark researcher William Winram’s new film Great White Sharks
See The Sydney Morning Herald Life as William Winram must be breathlessly exciting. One day you’re ocean diving (without an oxygen tank) to a world record (145 metres down in three minutes, eight seconds); the next you’re swimming with great white sharks and living to tell the tale. There used to be some big-wave surfing…
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What happens to the lungs of a freediver during a deep dive?
Boyle’s law in action, this experiment plunging an upside down liquid meter to -55 meter with 1 liter of air inside. There air compressed to 154 ml at the bottom. Freediver accompanying.
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Textured surface could create ‘driest ever’ super-hydrophobic material
Read for instance BBC, livescience and nature US engineers at MIT in Boston have developed a new way of texturing surfaces that they believe could make for the “most waterproof material ever”. Inspired by ridges found in nature on the wings of the Morpho butterfly and the veins of nasturtium leaves, they added tiny ridges…
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New Methods for Detecting Anabolic Steroids Lead to Hundreds of Positive Doping Tests
Read PR Newswire and ARD In recent months, two European doping control laboratories have – largely unnoticed – discovered an alarmingly high number of doping cases using improved detection methods. Based on information from the editorial staff who work on doping at the German public television broadcaster ARD, the laboratories in Cologne and Moscow have…
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Functional evaluation during swimming w/ K4b2 and Aquatrainer at Laboratório de Biomecânica do Porto
Source: Porto Biomechanics Laboratory http://www.labiomep.up.pt
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University of Portsmouth researchers say swimmers should train breathing muscles to improve performance
Read news.com.au Elite swimmers could perform better in the pool by training the muscles used for breathing, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have examined how muscle fatigue in the inspiratory muscles can affect overall performance. They believe that by incorporating specific training of these muscles into their regime, swimmers could…
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TedEd on the physics of fluids and why the size of a swimmer matters
Because I didn’t want to use their title. Interesting.
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Sport Science – Diana Nyad’s Cuba-to-Florida Swim
ESPN Sport Science’s John Brenkus examines the extreme endurance it took for Diana Nyad to swim 110 miles from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Fl in 53 hours.