Category: Technology
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Are submarines the new yachts for the wealthy?
Some call it the final frontier. While humans have breached the limitations of land, air and space, the underwater world remains largely untouched. Read more here on ABC News
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Sounding the deepest spot on Earth with sonar
The day is getting ever closer, when James Cameron will go for the second ever dive down into the deepest abyss available, according to one commenter on Facebook as soon as weather conditions are calm enough to allow them to navigate to the dive site and make the descent.
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Rottnest Island
This is not so swimming relevant, but just a really nice video demonstrating what can be done with ‘amateur’ cameras these days. A trip to Rottnest Island, Western Australia, captured on Canon 7D and GoPro Hero. Love the colors, the clarity and those weird animals.
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Video: British Trials 2012 Mens 50 freestyle final
Pretty good video here shot on an iPhone 4 at the British Olympic Trials on Friday, 9 March 2012. If you look closely, you’ll notice a flash of red light on one of the center lanes at 0:31, that must be the light signal that Craig Lord mentions here on SwimNews: The first swimmer home…
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Wow, SEGA’s London 2012â„¢ is extremely detailed
SEGA is producing the official video game of the Olympic Games – London 2012â„¢ – to be released in June for Playstation 3, PC and Xbox 360. Here is a video showing the interior of the Aquatics Centre, looking very impressive with Omega OSB 11 starting blocks and everything.
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You can hear your splits underwater in the London 2012 pool
Interesting fact, courtesy of Elizabeth Simmonds on Twitter Was weird hearing the live commentary underwater during the race.. Very surreal hearing ur 50m split times blasted through submerged space! — Elizabeth Simmonds (@QueenMond) March 9, 2012 And hilarious follow-up tweet Also just got asked by a 6 year old if I would do him the…
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James Cameron completed an 8,000-meter dive this week (!)
The following is an excerpt from an email from James Cameron to Don Walsh, co-pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, following Cameron’s successful (and record-breaking) 8,000-meter solo submarine dive in the “Deepsea Challenger” to the bottom of the New Britain Trench, Wednesday. Don Walsh will be joining the expedition in Guam, prior to Cameron’s 11,000-meter dive…
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Cameron’s Deepsea Challenger launched, will go into the abyss in a few weeks
Behold the Deepsea Challenger, a one-man submersible craft that in a few weeks will take filmmaker James Cameron into the deepest point in the ocean – Challenger Deep in the Pacific’s Mariana Trench – as only the third human to visit that place since Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh back in 1960. Millionaire adventurer Chris…