Category: Wow
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Home Made Hammock Raft on the Cape Fear
Colin Surra, Ben Rice, Alex Prestrud and I built this raft from recycled and donated wood and pickle barrels to suit Eno Hammocks. We spent three days on the Cape Fear river, starting in Erwin NC to the Old Bluff Church.
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Man breaks neck, is paralysed and drowns in swimming accident, recovers with photography therapy
The craziest thing is that there was no actual accident. A simple waist-level dive into the water—no collision with any object, no previous injuries—changed Young’s life forever. He was lucky enough to survive and recover from the near-fatal injury, eventually returning to his normal life. But the love and support he received and the way…
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Stunning Drone Footage of a Humpback Whale Mother and Calf Surfacing
Maui-based filmmaker Justin Edwards captured some truly breathtaking video of a humpback whalemother and calf surfacing for air using a GoPro HD HERO3 attached to a drone. Watch this video on YouTube
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Top swimming holes around the world
Summer is here at last. Travel deals web site Cheapflights.ca has formulated a list of the top 11 swimming holes around the world. It’s chosen five swimming holes in North America where you can enjoy the beauty of nature and cool down from summer’s heat. Read The Star Photo by brentonmac12
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1936 Olympian Adolph Kiefer still gets a kick from swimming
See Chicago Tribune Adolph Kiefer, a 96-year-old Chicago area swimmer who won a gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, talks about his lifetime of swimming. Kiefer is also an inventor and innovator of new products related to aquatics competition. http://youtu.be/XWBa-X4z4D0
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This Is What All Backyard Swimming Pools Should Be Like!
See The San Francisco Globe What’s there not to love? Natural clean water, hand built, and so much cheaper than a traditional swimming pool. Watch this video on YouTube
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‘Dream Weavers,’ underwater fashion spread by photographer Zena Holloway
See BoingBoing Zena Holloway is best known for elegant underwater photography, and her work was recently featured in this fashion shoot for the Financial Times’ lifestyle magazine, How to Spend It. Artist website here. An Underwater Film: Behind the Scenes of ‘How to Spend it’ Magazine from Zena Holloway on Vimeo.
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Just what is eating those Great Whites?
Read for instance CNN via Neatorama A mystery revolving around the death of a nine-foot-long great white shark off the coast of Western Australia is the subject of a documentary to air June 25th and 26th on The Smithsonian Channel. Remains of the great white washed up on shore months after the shark was killed. A satellite tracking…
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Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or Explodes Off Block – Literally
See SwimmingWorld While taking off from lane 2 in the men’s 50-meter fly, Bar-Or demolished his starting block. Take a look at the footage below sent to Swimming World by Bar-Or. Watch this video on YouTube