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  • Jeez, Cameron’s deep sea sub is a spinning fast-diving vertical thorpedo

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    This sounds like the stuff that severe seasickness is made of: He calls it a vertical torpedo. The axis of his 24-foot-long craft is upright rather than horizontal, speeding the plunge. His goal is to fall and rise as quickly as possible so he can maximize his time investigating the dark seabed. He wants to…

  • 4 Aussies flee bar tab by base jumping off skyscraper

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    This has absolutely nothing to do with swimming, except it is happening in the same country as the Australian Olympic Trials :-) Via Nothing to do with Arbroath

  • Behold the Jacqueline Bradley Boat Dress

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    Jacqueline Bradley is a Canberra based artist who makes sculptural objects, exploring ways of engaging with the surround environment, ideas of home and a sense of place. This particular work of art, a dress with a built-in inflatable raft, was on display as part of an exhibit called The Outdoors Type at Canberra Contemporary Art…

  • Charlie Houchin 400m kick

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    That boy’s got an outboard motor for legs, splits 34.23 – 37.40 – 38.09 – 37.14 – 36.87 – 37.57 – 37.87 – 37.68 = 4:56.88 (pffft, no kick in the end ;-). Norway’s Gard Kvale predicts him to be 2nd behind Vanderkaay in the 400 freestyle at the US Trials. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/GardKvale/status/178333755969249280″]

  • Beautiful surfing at Byron Bay

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    “Smooth surfer Jorgelina “Lina” Reyero hails from a small town on the Atlantic Coast of Argentina. She’s spent the last 6 years wandering the world with her surfboard in tow and has wound up near the beautiful Wategos Beach. Last month, she mounted a little camera to the nose of her log and captured the…

  • Camera survives months underwater

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    Nine months ago, a Canadian man lost his waterproof camera while paddle-boarding near rodanthe, and last week, a Virginia Beach man found it on an Outer Banks beach. Brilliant! Read WAVY.com Camera found after months underwater: wavy.com

  • Tilt-shift time-lapse of the 2011 Rio Carnival

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    Not very swimming related, other than this ‘city of samba’ will be the host of the 2016 Olympics, and that there is an interesting rescue helicopter in it fishing someone out of the sea. But beautiful, via PetaPixel

  • Wow, frozen sea ice flowers are beautiful

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    If I understand this correctly, this is something called ‘surface hoar frost‘, where saturated water vapors coming up through cracks in sea ice freeze and crystallize with salt on the ice serving as a nucleus for the frozen vaporized water. A dominant source of sea salt aerosol in Antactica, that scientist suspect may be main…

  • Ice Castles

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    This is something they call The Ice Castles at Silverthorne, located in Colorado, USA. Beautiful, but I’m sure it looks more romantic and warm than it is :-)