Swimmer's Daily

  • Olympic Dark Horse Episode 8

  • Heather Friesen, 26, fell more than 50 feet down a waterfall in Hawaii and suffered a collapsed lung, ten broken ribs and a fractured scapula.

    Woman’s 50-foot waterfall plunge caught on camera | ABC News

  • Endurance athlete Cameron Bellamy will attempt an unprecedented 150km swim from Barbados to St Lucia on Friday in an effort to complete the longest ocean swim in history.

    The attempt, which is dependent on ocean currents and the weather, has been hastily arranged after he had to abandon a planned 166km swim from Cuba to the Florida Keys, which he said was stopped by American authorities.

    “I was denied the licence for my support boat to make the trip, the U.S. government is very hawkish on Cuba right now and declined everything,” Bellamy told Reuters in a telephone interview from Barbados.

    Instead he has arranged an equally testing alternative.

    “We’ve managed to put the planning for this one together in just a matter of weeks. Last year I did a 41-hour swim around Barbados of 100km — the fourth longest unassisted swim ever — which has me mentally confident about tackling the longer distance and I’ve been training pretty hard for the last six months.”

    Read Reuters

    Cameron Bellamy: SwimAroundBarbados. The Finish!

    Cameron Bellamy attempting to swim from Barbados to St. Lucia

     

  • In a freak accident, at least 11 people drowned when a boat capsized during Ganesh immersion on the Khatlapura ghat in Bhopal on Friday morning. Officials said that 5 people were rescued. The incident happened around 4:30 am on Friday. Professional swimmers and State Disaster Relief Force personnel were deployed in the rescue operation. Chief minister Kamal Nath has ordered a magisterial probe into the mishap and has announced a compensation of ₹4 lakh to the families of the dead.

    https://youtu.be/TbFJaHt7VzI

  • Hamna’s dream is to become an Olympic swimmer, but that’s not all she’s aiming for in life – she wants to be a physiotherapist too. Thanks to work experience in a local sports therapy centre, she’s more determined than ever to make this dream a reality.

    https://youtu.be/wGTpRFCtZ54

  • One lighthouse on Isle au Haut, two swimmers, and a hefty pile of money.

    This might be the happiest fundraising story of the summer in Maine