Swimmer's Daily

  • An 83-year-old male freediver who was found unresponsive in about 8 feet of water this afternoon off of Heeia Kea Pier in Kaneohe Bay was pronounced dead at the scene, Emergency Medical Services said.

    The Honolulu Fire Department responded to a diver in distress with seven units, including Air 1, and 20 personnel.

    The first unit, which arrived at 12:40 p.m., launched a rescue craft and investigated, according to HFD spokesman Scot Seguirant. It was reported that a diver had gotten into trouble while diving.

    Two divers were freediving and one diver returned to the boat. After some time he realized that the second diver had not surfaced and notified 911. HFD personnel located the unresponsive man in about 8 feet of water.

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    Photo by Bob Linsdell

  • Today, one out of three people don’t have access to safe drinking water. And that’s the result of many things, but one of them is that 96.5% of that water is found in our oceans. It’s saturated with salt, and undrinkable. Most of the freshwater is locked away in glaciers or deep underground. Less than one percent of it is available to us. So why can’t we just take all that seawater, filter out the salt, and have a nearly unlimited supply of clean, drinkable water?

  • Swim The Loop is a Without Limits Event. The race starts and finishes at the Dockside Restaurant, which is located on Airlie Road (Wilmington side of the Intracoastal Waterway). The race will start at a high tide to ensure an even tide pattern throughout the 3.5 mile swim. Don’t be fooled though; there will be times of slight incoming tide, slight falling tide and a mostly slack tide.

  • Enjoy this look back at Michael Phelps’ historic performance at the Summer Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing, China.

    https://youtu.be/3o7I0FxFNeQ

  • A former Rocklin High School swimmer who is among the first Placer County Special Olympians ever to win two silver medals at the Special Olympics World Games is about to embark on another international trip. This time the focus isn’t on medals, but instead spreading a message about inclusiveness. “It’s a great opportunity, I think, to spread Special Olympics all over the world,” said Alec Heuermann.

  • https://www.everyoneactive.com/promot… – We spoke to a whole range of our members and colleagues about staying fit as they got older. These swimmers love coming to the Plymouth Life Centre – Not just for the Olympic sized swimming pool and keeping fit, but also for the strong social links they’ve made with one another.

  • For about 15 of Nick Pedrazzini’s 27 years as a swimming coach, he would take a total of one week in holidays. For seven days out of every 12 months, he would step away from an all-consuming job  devoted to aspiring athletes and their families.

    There was great reward but a heavy price. A marriage was lost, and there was a spiral into depression. He saw the family pressures his mentor, Laurie Lawrence, endured yet followed the same path.

    “You end up living the life of the athlete. That puts a lot of strain on family. I went through a divorce and a lot of that was probably based on not earning much money and being away from your own kids,” said Pedrazzini, the head coach at Redlands Swim Club in Brisbane.

    “You do it because you love it but it takes a toll on you. Maybe you don’t admit it, or may not recognise that. You’re trying to be committed like the athlete, or they don’t feel like you’re putting in the same work they are.

    […]

    Pedrazzini is one of the community voices for a new campaign aimed at putting the mental health of coaches on the agenda and trying to create cultural change in a career defined by results and often judged on the hours you spend on the job. In coaching circles, being a workaholic is standard practice and a viable performance metric.

    The brainchild of long-time athlete manager Phil Stoneman, current and former athletes around Australia will be asked on Wednesday to post a message on social media with the hashtag #lookafteryourcoach. A Facebook page has been set up to share stories and messages. It may just be a simple thank you.

    Read The Sydney Morning Herald and visit facebook.com/lookafteryourcoach