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  • Swimmers dive right in for Polar Plunge activities

    Mar 3, 2019

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    rokur
    in Charity, Winter Swimming

    After weather held off yesterday’s Polar Plunge activities… plungers are diving into today’s events.

  • Wild Swimming Brothers (Channel Trailer)

    Mar 2, 2019

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    rokur
    in Wild Swimming

    We’re The Wild Swimming Brothers – three brothers raised in the Lake District. Together we promote wild swimming, conservation and the connection between creativity and the outdoors.

  • West Texas: World’s Largest Spring-Fed Swimming Pool Reopens After Partial Collapse

    Mar 2, 2019

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    rokur
    in Swimming Pools

    An iconic spring-fed swimming pool in West Texas that closed last year for repairs has reopened following $2 million in upgrades. Matt Yurus reports.

  • Cal Women’s Swimming: Teri McKeever reflects on the impact technological advances have had on sport

    Mar 2, 2019

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    rokur
    in Competition, Technology

    Cal women’s swimming head coach Teri McKeever takes a look back at the technological strides like underwater cameras, electronic timing and advances in swimsuit material, that have been made in the years since she was an athlete participating in the sport. Tune in to the next “Pac-12 Playlist” on Friday, March. 1 at 9 p.m. PT/ 10 p.m. MT on Pac-12 Network.

  • Japanese Master Inventor Plays With Drowning For Ideas

    Mar 2, 2019

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    rokur
    in Freediving

    “Unless I push myself to 0.05 seconds before death, the invention won’t come”

  • What’s At The Bottom Of The Great Blue Hole?

    Mar 1, 2019

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    rokur
    in Nature

    The Great Blue Hole is a massive underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. In the winter of 2018, a submarine crew from Aquatica Submarines ventured to the bottom of the hole and made some unexpected discoveries.

  • High school swim team among the best

    Mar 1, 2019

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Kearney High School`s Girls Swimming team is among the best in Missouri, and a class clown is leading the Bulldogs speed, in and out of the pool.

  • This California Prison Teaches Inmates to Dive Deep

    Mar 1, 2019

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    rokur
    in Freediving

    At the California Institution for Men, a state prison in Chino, there’s a program that trains inmates to dive deep. Here, at the on-site Marine Technology Training Center, students study commercial diving both underwater and in the classroom. Founded in 1970, the 18-month course has graduated hundreds of men—many of whom have gone on to jobs on oil rigs and ships and only 6 percent of whom have returned to prison.

  • You Should Never Do Water Aerobics. Cleto Rodriguez

    Mar 1, 2019

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    rokur
    in Fun

    If you’re a middle aged man, you should never do water aerobics. To find out what else you shouldn’t do, Watch “Cleto Is My Real Name” by Cleto Rodriguez only at http://www.drybarcomedy.com/cletor

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