Category: WTF
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Diving into the Philippines’ dangerous, underwater mines
See PBS Newshour Filipino divers disappear into water as opaque as chocolate milk as they blindly dig in search of gold trapped in muddy sediment. It’s risky business: As miners go deeper, underwater tunnels could collapse or the compressor that provides air may fail. Hari Sreenivasan reports on a dangerous venture undertaken by adults and…
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Call for backyard swimming pool ban to save kids causes outrage
Read Sunshine Coast Daily A call to ban backyard pools in Australia has caused outrage on social media. Jo Abi, a regular writer for ivillage.com.au, said that if swimming pools were banned children’s lives wouldn’t be put “at risk”. “The reason I started thinking about the banning of backyard pools was because February is the month…
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‘Overdressed’ mum barred from swimming pool
Read Illawarra Mercury A Dapto mum who was not allowed to swim at Port Kembla Olympic Pool because she was wearing too much clothing for the lifeguard’s liking has lodged a complaint with Wollongong council, citing discrimination. Body-conscious Katherine Pulo wore a rash vest and a stretchy, lightweight dress as she approached the pool with…
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Swimming Mad Huey fends off 10-foot tiger shark with a bird cage
Right, so ‘Aussie adrenaline junkies‘ Shaun and twin brother Dean Harrington had decided to go cage diving with sharks for an extreme video shoot for the surfing and fishing clothing label The Mad Hueys, when this happened. “We were just having fun but it turned crazy.” Not using a proper shark cage, but a AUS$50…
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Aqua Polar Gym 2014
“Some in Geneva, Switzerland start the New Year with a swim in freezing Lake Geneva / lac Léman.”
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Lake Michigan ice makes for tricky New Year’s swim
Milwaukee’s Polar Bear club held it’s annual New Year’s Day swim in Lake Michigan, but shifting winds brought a lot of lake ice to the shores.. making for some tricky footing.
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Mystery Lights Over Florida Swimming Pool
“A video showing lights hovering over a pool is the talk of Naples. Residents say they have never seen anything like it and experts aren’t sure either.” http://youtu.be/QdRGEmNqsFs
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Children evacuated from swimming pool after prosthetic leg mistaken for paedophile
Read The Independent An entire class of children was evacuated from a swimming pool after a prosthetic leg was mistaken for a paedophile. Teachers from Kings Hill Primary School in Kent spotted the leg poking out from a cubicle whilst taking their class of year 4 children swimming at Larkfield Leisure Centre. They believed it…