Category: Wow
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Behold Vladimir Morozov’s first swimming pool
4 lanes. 25 meters. Siberia. Who needs more? :-) via simma.nu/no My first swimming pool, Siberia. 4 lanes 25m pic.twitter.com/3rX9KQQ4Yk — Vladimir Morozov (@v1addy) September 16, 2013
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Lost ring returned to dying man after nearly 40 years underwater
See CNN, via MSN Phillips lost the ring in two weeks after he got it back in ’74, when it got caught in the pop top of a beer can he tried to open on a boating trip with his future wife. He was also currently in the hospital recovering from brain surgery, and battling…
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The Devil’s Pool
Via Laughing Squid In the short film “The Devil’s Pool,†filmmaker Casey Neistat recounts his single-minded mission to swim in Devil’s Pool, a notoriously dangerous natural pool at the edge of Victoria Falls in Southern Africa.
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59-year-old Jane Petkov swims 1.25 miles across lake tied up in a bag
Read TwinCities.com, video off svt.se A 59-year-old Bulgarian man has swum more than 1.25 miles completely tied up in a bag in a bid to enter into the Guinness World Records book. Wrapped in an orange, porous bag with his arms and legs strapped to his body, Jane Petkov swam “on his back, like a…
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Tens of thousands swim across Sun Moon Lake at annual event
Read Focus Taiwan Tens of thousands of people joined an annual mass swimming event on Sunday across Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan’s largest fresh water lake. Over 25,000 swimmers attempted the 3,000-meter swim across the lake in the central county of Nantou, including 237 disabled people and 1,088 foreign swimmers from 30 countries, organizers said.
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Alessandro De Rose on Cliff Diving – Don’t Look Down!
“Alessandro De Rose made his Cliff Diving World Series Debut back in July, during the fourth stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Malcesine (Italy). Watch and listen on how and why the Italian took up such an extreme sport!” “And when you see that the water is coming, you stretch your…
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