Gym employees Karabo Thosago and Brandon Murigagumbo were honoured for their heroic actions at Planet Fitness in Johannesburg on April 11, 2019. The two received awards after saving the life of 33-year-old Gareth Utton who lost consciousness while doing laps in the pool on April 03, 2019.
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Mighty Swimmers and ClassForKids ‘The Best Thing We’ve Ever Done’
Find out how ClassForKids has helped Mighty Swimmers become more professional and build even better relationships with parents at their club.
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John Legend Gets Swim Lessons From Famous Olympian
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Behind the Scenes: Audi ‘Synchronised Swim
Take a look behind the scenes of Audi ‘Synchronised Swim’. Created with BBH London and Director Johnny Hardstaff from Independent, this beautiful Audi campaign film shows that all Audi models have the same capabilities, tech and attitude. Find out more about the project: http://www.themill.com/portfolio/4876…
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9-foot alligator found in Florida family’s swimming pool
Everybody wants to hang out at the house with the swimming pool.
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London Aquatics Centre to host 2019 World Para-swimming Championships
London is to host the 2019 World Para-swimming Championships.
The competition will take place at the London Aquatics Centre from 9-15 September after original hosts Malaysia were stripped of the right to host the event.
Around 600 swimmers from 60 nations are set to take part in the Championships, which is a qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) awarded the championships to London after failing to to receive necessary guarantees from the Malaysian government that Israeli para-swimmers could participate, free from discrimination, and safely.
It will be the second time that Great Britain has hosted the championships after Glasgow in 2015.
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Photo by Images George Rex
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A Meditative Aquatic Opera Featuring a Musician Gracefully Playing a Rectangular Cello Underwater
While he was artist-in-residence at Middlebury College in 2017, choreographer Gabriel Forestieri created “Breatheâ€, a highly meditative, graceful multi-disciplinary aquatic installation. The performance featured amongst a great many things, a musician playing an unusual but elegant rectangular cello as he floated upon and under the water. Composer Loren Kyoshi Dempster provided the haunting soundtrack.
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Video From A Camera Attached To A Great White’s Dorsal Fin As It Hunts
This is a video from a camera attached to a great white shark off the coast of South Africa as it hunts for seals. The camera, which was designed to eventually fall off the dorsal fin and float to the surface after several hours, captured a previously unknown behavior of great whites, which surprisingly wasn’t reading, nibbling on and whispering sweet nothings in a loved one’s ear, or going vegetarian. No, the footage revealed that the sharks will actively hunt for seals in kelp forests.
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