A British freediving team has become the first to dive the 52m-deep wreck of the WW2 submarine HMS Perseus, off the Greek island of Kefalonia.
The Perseus hit an Italian mine in 1941 but the wreck remained undiscovered until 1997. The story of the seemingly miraculous ascent of the sole survivor has since made the wreck famous.
The UK-based NTX Extreme Location Freediving Team dived the Perseus on 28 September.
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The International Swimming League is a global professional swimming competition launching in 2019 with teams in both Europe (Italy-based Aqua Centurions, France-based Energy Standard, Hungary-based Iron, and London Roar) and the United States (Cali Condors, DC Trident, LA Current, NY Breakers). The inaugural season will include matches in Indianapolis IN, Naples ITA, Lewisville TX, Budapest HUN, College Park MD, London GBR, and the championship finale at the 12,000-seat Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, NV.
The ISL aims to create groundbreaking projects, in both form and content, exploring the full potential of competitive swimming while securing sustainable commercial growth in the sport.
For more information head to www.isl.global
Women on the Niagara University swim team had a strategy for walking out to the pool: stay together, wear headphones, don’t take off your towel until the last possible moment.
They had to be vigilant, said Nastassja Posso, a member of the women’s team. Because the men’s team would already be lined up on the pool deck. And you never knew what they were going to say.
“They’d call us ‘princess thigh gap,’ ‘whale,’ ‘water buffalo’ … They would start pointing and laughing, making moaning noises, orgasm noises,†said Posso. “And our coach is just acting like he doesn’t hear it.â€
Three members of the Niagara University (NU) women’s swim team — Posso, Jaime Rolf, and an unnamed Jane Doe — filed a federal lawsuit against their school in late September, claiming that the university knew about the sexual harassment taking place on the swim team, but did nothing about it. They allege that their coach, Ben Nigro, who has been coaching NU’s swim team for 14 years, witnessed the majority of the harassment. When the female swimmers reported the verbal abuse, Posso said, Nigro would tell them to “grow thicker skin.†He’d say, “boys will be boys,†according to the complaint.
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Maldives goes on Guiness World Record for the most people freediving simultaneously, with 520 participants on Tuesday, 1 October 2019. The small island nation renowned for its breathtaking natural beauty and luxury hospitality broke the world record previously held by Italy; ‘La Scuola del Mare 2’ (Verona), in Torri del Benaco, Verona with 280 people.
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National swimmer Yip Pin Xiu won two gold medals at September 2019’s World Para Swimming Championships in London. She was also a three-time Paralympic gold medallist and a Nominated Member of Parliament. She discussed more with CNA.
A former Stanford athlete is speaking out against the university. Abrahm Devine claims he was kicked off the swim team because he’s gay. Maria Medina reports. (10-3-19)
Would you like to swim faster? Of course you do. One of the best ways to do this is to focus on high elbow swimming. But what on earth is high elbow swimming? Heather & Mark are here to explain and bring you 4 tips to improve it!
Howard Fisher had never swum in the ocean, and as his 93rd birthday approached, he thought he never would. Then his daughter made his birthday wish come true – and the joy on his face will melt your heart.
Energy Standard joint captain Sarah Sjöström says she is ‘looking forward to racing her competitors more often’ thanks to the birth of the International Swimming League.
