Category: Wow
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A vertigo-inducing swimming pool in Mumbai
This eye-catching swimming pool at Bhakti Park in Mumbai, India has a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline attached to the floor of the pool, to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming. Read The Laughing Bug. Source: Uploaded by user via Parastou on…
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Hero dog rescues swimming puppy stuck in a pool
Amazing technique, and quick thinking too, switching from push to pull. Yes, Hasselhoff would have been proud ! :-) Via The Chive
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95-year-old sets US national record in the 1,000 freestyle
Thursday at the 2012 US Master’s Spring Nationals, 95-year-old Anne A Dunivin set a US Masters national record, completing the 1000 yard freestyle in 50:44.12, first person across the nation to complete that distance in the 95-99 age bracket. Via digtriad.com
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Swedish student wins Google Photography Prize for depicting the lonelier side of swimming
After receiving entries from 20,000 students in 146 countries, Google chose 24-year-old Viktor Johansson’s series of images capturing a competitive swimmer’s demanding training regimen for the grand prize. Johansson studies at the Nordic Photography School Biskops-Arnö in Sweden, plus gets to now have his work featured in an exhibition at London’s Saatchi Gallery, and to…
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Camaro crashes into swimming pool
The drivers if fortunately OK after losing control of his car, flying through the air and plunging upside down into a family pool, the accelerator apparently having gotten stuck on his 1968 red Chevrolet Camaro. Bumblebee, is that you? Read 7News
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Behold the 5-star waterfall hotel being built in Shanghai
Construction is already underway on the Shimao Intercontinental Hotel in the Songjiang District of Shanghai – a five-star, 19-story, 380-room, luxury hotel built into an abandoned, part-flooded quarry, including underwater public areas and guestrooms facing a ten-meter deep aquarium. The lowest level of the hotel will contain a leisure complex with a swimming pool and…
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Amazing shots from the 2012 underwater photo contest
Intrepid photographers submitted over 700 underwater images for the 2012 Underwater Photography Contest and an adorable red sea slug grinning for the camera was awarded the contest’s star, see International Business Times. Personally, I think that smug-looking sperm whale is way more adorable! :-D
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Wow, beautiful all-red spectator stand in tribute to 11-year-old cancer victim
At the 10th annual Easter swim meet at Hutton Moor Leisure Center in Weston, UK, yesterday, hundreds of swimmers and supporters came together in red in tribute of 11-year-old Mary Collard, keen member of the Weston Swimming Club, who lost her battle against bone cancer on New Year’s Day. Read more here on Mercury24