Category: Wow
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Raising kids in the Faroese cliffs
The traditional way, but gee, many safety issues here, me thinks.
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Underwater 5.1 surround sound captured for documentary
The Canon Crackers of the Pistol Shrimp is an eight-minute teaser for a proposed feature-length called Sound of the Oceans and has been made using a new method of capturing high-quality surround sound underwater, believed to be the first ever made with ‘real underwater surround sound’. Warning, featuring “a seriously terrible voice-over”, via Televisual Canon…
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Croc doesn’t like being filmed while eating
A dare-devil cameraman narrowly avoided becoming dinner after a saltwater crocodile he was baiting on a remote Arnhem Land beach had a go at his video camera, via Nothing To Do With Arbroath
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These are not the dolphins I was looking for :-P
Miami Dolphins cheerleaders lip dubbing to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe“. Love the fact that in order to make it (if possible) a little more sexy, they added water and swimsuits without a football in sight :-) Miami Dolphins via BuzzFeed
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D’Arcy and Monk in hot water for posing with guns
According to the Herald Sun, Aussie ‘bad boys’ Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk “have sparked outrage after they posed with high-powered weapons in a US gun shop”, to the point where Swimming Australia demanded pictures taken off Facebook and issued this statement, promising a talk with the athletes upon return to Australia: “Swimming Australia became…
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Herbert Nitsch to attempt a world’s deepest ever 800ft (244m) freedive
Austrian airline pilot and extreme freediver Herbert Nitsch went down in history on June 14th 2007, off the Greek island of Spetses, by freediving to a depth of 700 feet (-214m), the deepest ever freedive. Now he wants to go even deeper, down to 800 ft / 244 m between 4 – 6 June 2012…
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Kilian Martin skating around the defunct Lake Dolores Waterpark
A beautiful movie from a sad site, the late Lake Dolores Waterpark. Via YouTube on Google+
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Canadian swimmers en route to London
Nice video, found searching for something completely different :-)
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ADHD parenting advice from Michael Phelps’ mom
Ahh, Debbie Phelps is brilliant, a middle school teacher for more than decades, now principal, who when Michael at the age of 9 was diagnosed with ADHD didn’t give up but found ways to keep him focused. After Michael kept grabbing a classmate’s paper, Debbie suggested that he be seated at his own table. When…