Swimmer's Daily

  • You know those cool photos that are half-above the surface of the water, and half-below it? They’re called split shots, and a new underwater housing is designed to let you take them using a wide variety of smartphones.

    See New Atlas and Indiegogo

     

  • A new robotic lionfish can swim around thanks to a synthetic circulatory system, which pumps artificial blood made of battery fluid, around to its various components and motors.

    The synthetic blood allows the robot to store 325 percent more energy than if it was carrying a separate battery pack, according to Nature News, enough juice to lazily paddle through the water for an impressive 37 hours. While the fish can’t swim very fast or far, its life-giving bloodstream is an impressive example of how mimicking biological organisms could help a new generation of robots become more autonomous and efficient than ever before.

    See Futurism

  • The US military has been looking at changing the diets of elite operators like Navy SEALs as new evidence emerges that their diet could enhance their abilities on the battlefield, especially underwater, but officials are concerned about what it could mean legally and in terms of their health.

    The ketogenic, or keto, diet, is high in protein and fat and very low in carbohydrates. The diet forces the body to go into ketosis, in which the body burns stored fat, or ketone bodies, as energy instead of blood sugar, which comes from carbohydrates.

    Research shows the ketogenic diet can help human bodies stay underwater for longer periods of time, according to The Washington Times.

    That would allow elite operators like Navy SEALs to be more effective on a combat dive or a raid that starts from an underwater SEAL Delivery Vehicle.

    Lisa Sanders, the director of science and technology at US Special Operations Command, touted the findings but raised ethical concerns about promoting a particular diet among soldiers.

    “One of the effects of truly being in ketosis is that it changes the way your body handles oxygen deprivation, so you can actually stay underwater at [deeper] depths for longer periods of time and not go into oxygen seizures,” Sanders said at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC) in Tampa, Florida, in May.

    Read Business Insider and harvard.edu

    Read more about the keto for instance on the Top 25 Keto Blogs of 2019

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  • Cleaning up the underwater recovery in breaststroke can help you maintain momentum.

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  • There’s no denying that the movie Jaws definitely made some beach-goers scared to go into the water. However, the story that inspired Jaws was what really had people scared to have a day at the beach. The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 were so unexpected, sudden, and violent that they stuck in the public’s mind even up to the point that the movie hit theaters. The “Matawan man-eater,” as the shark was called, took down at least three people before the killings finally stopped, and it forever changed the public’s view of sharks.

  • “Okay, I’ve had enough swimming in the ocean for today, thanks.”

    Via Digg

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  • Hundreds of swimmers across the Tampa Bay area will be participating in the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson on Thursday.

  • Want tickets for next year’s Tokyo Olympics? Prepare to be let down.

    Millions were disappointed starting Thursday when applicants in a ticket lottery — for Japan residents only — began learning if they landed tickets. The answer is going to be overwhelmingly no. The same will be true for residents outside Japan, who could experience a similar dejection: too much demand and too few tickets.

    This was not the case at the past few games — the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro — when tickets were given away and volunteers were often summoned to fill empty seats for the television cameras. At times, there were too many empty seats to fill.

    “This is probably going to be the most popular Olympics, and possibly one of the most popular events of all time,” Ken Hanscom, the chief operating officer of TicketManager, told The Associated Press in an interview.