Category: Wow
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Georgian girl to swim across the Dardanelles with hands and feet tied
A 17-year-old Georgian girl plans to swim across the Dardanelles with her hands and feet tied on August 30, the ten-year anniversary of Henry Kuprashvili carrying out the feat in 2002, setting a Guinness record. Read dfwatch.net (and thanks Dato!) Here’s a video from when Henri Kuprashvili swam across in 2002
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A day in Berlenga Island
So that would be the Berlengas in Portugal. Rocky and barren with lots of water, I like it ! A day in Berlenga island from Berta upe TilmantaitÄ— on Vimeo.
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Water Light Grafitti
The “Water Light Graffiti” is a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water. You can use a paintbrush, a water atomizer, your fingers or anything damp to sketch a brightness message or just to draw. Sweet. Via Google Creative Sandbox on Google+ Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau, created in…
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Music Video – Smash The Idol – Gilad Vital
Quite awesome effects created using an underwater mirror at about 1:00, and an underwater camera turned upside down at about 2:48. Music Video – Smash The Idol – Gilad Vital / גלעד ויטל – × ×¤×¥ ×ת ×”×ליל from Rami Katzav on Vimeo.
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There you go, an inflatable water slide for your yacht
You need this, Freestyle Cruiser via Neatorama
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Burroughs and Goudarszhi illustrating what the Olympics are all about
Or at least ‘should be all about’. Via Buzzfeed Who’s says Iran and America don’t get along? Maybe I should be president! twitter.com/alliseeisgold/… — Jordan Burroughs (@alliseeisgold) August 11, 2012
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Behold the amazing Twinscam used to show synchronized swimming at London 2012
Synchronized swimming has never looked so good thanks to the Twinscam, invented by Japanese broadcaster NHK in 2010, simultaneously showing swimmer’s torsos above water and their legs below it. A solution to a common problem in water events, that because of the way light refracts and reflects differently above and below water, heavy image processing…
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Humpback whale breaches just feet away from boat
Wow, apparently (and thankfully?) it was just a playful calf leaping out of the water 10-30 feet away from two boats near Tofino, British Columbia, Matthew Thornton capturing this most awesome photo on the other boat, video below captured with an iPhone. Via PetaPixel
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Man’s swim with ailing dog goes viral
John Unger and Schoep’s friendship started when Unger adopted Schoep from a shelter as a puppy 19 years ago. Time has given them memories, but it has also taken a toll on Schoep’s body. “This joint right here kind of freezes up,” Unger said pointing to Schoep’s hind leg. Arthritis and hip dysplasia have settled…