Category: Wow
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Moving into a nice neighborhood :-)
Last week this site was included in the new Swimming World RSS feed aggregator entitled “Swimming Around the World, Posts from the Swimming Community”, right on the home page of SwimmingWorld.com. Pretty humbled here, especially when seeing we’re mentioned among great sites like GoSwim, SwimNews, Texas Swimming, SCAQ Blog and Speed Endurance Swimming.
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Waves, a kinetic sculpture that generates waveforms
Daniel Palacios creates this interactive sculpture back in 2006, that generates waveforms with a spinning elastic rope whenever it detects nearby movement. Looks a bit dangerous. The Creators Project via Laughing Squid
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Aww, Dumas swims with his full-grown pet polar bear
60-year-old Canadian Mark Dumas has raised the polar bear, Dawn, since she was six weeks old. He clearly shares a loving relationship with the animal, swimming with it and kissing it an everything. That is until the predator instinct kicks in, of course :-S Read Time
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Behold the graphics of the 2012 Australian Swimming Championships
Impressive live graphics and design by Zspace for Network Ten, used at the 2012 Australian Swimming Championships last month.
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Wow, the highest shallow dive world record is 11.20 m (36 ft 8.96 in)
The highest shallow dive was from a height of 11.20 m (36 ft 8.94 in) into 30 cm (12 in) of water and was achieved by Darren Taylor (a.k.a. Professor Splash, USA) in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China, on 26 November 2011. See the Guinness Book of World Records.
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100-year-old Vasili Krapivin sets swimming record
It took Vasili Krapivin 50 seconds to swim 25 meters during an open tournament in Sochi, Russia, having had the category “100 years or older” added to the swimming championships program especially for him. Born in 1912, he worked in the coal mines from the age of 18, graduated from the Tomsk Polytechnical Institute in…
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Lost GoPro camera reunited with owner after 10 months at sea
Zach Wilson, an adventure sports enthusiast and film-maker was paddle-boarding off North Carolina’s Outer Banks in May of last year with a friend, when his GoPro digital camera went missing. Ten months later, on February 28, he got an unexpected surprise when the friend he was with at the time spotted what he thought was…
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PBS Newshour on James Cameron’s trip to the Mariana Trench
Shooting footage for a 3-D movie and a National Geographic special, filmmaker James Cameron journeyed to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, seven miles below the surface. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on Cameron’s deep dive to the Mariana Trench’s Challenge Deep, 300 miles southwest of Guam. “He set off in…
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Dive Day for James Cameron and the DeepSea Challenger
Exciting news here on Twitter, it is ‘dive day’ for the DeepSea Challenger piloted by James Cameron, going down into the Mariana Trench as 2nd expedition ever in human history, and first solo. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/JimCameron/status/183695650809069570″]