If you’re going to recreate a massively famous painting in live action, you might as well do it right.
Well, Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” — that one painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel — is pretty much as daunting a challenge as you could get.
These Redditors certainly did it proud, though:
A friend and I tried to recreate The Creation Of Adam. I think it turned out pretty well. from r/pics
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With the tank plunged into darkness, alarms sounding, and wind and waves pounding at her, Olympian swimmer Hannah Miley was forced to face her greatest fear.
The Commonwealth gold medalist is no stranger to water in the pool but the claustrophobia brought on by undertaking Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET) was a different matter.
Confined to a small space and struggling for breath it took all the determination that has taken her to the top of her sport to see the 29-year-old through to the end of the challenge.
Driving her to overcome her “huge†fears, however, was the prospect of raising money for an Aberdeen-based still birth charity that is close to her heart.
What’s it like to have the Atlantic Ocean as one’s drug of choice? Side effects are a feeling of well-being, health and longevity. Find out by joining us every Sunday at the Hot Chocolate Swimming Group in Camps Bay, Cape Town at 09h00. Look for the big heart hanging between the palm trees.
Cape Cod National Sea Shore is looking for new protection for swimmers from sharks. WBZ-TV’s Bill Shields reports.
We ended our Travel Dares adventures swimming with stingrays and riding in individual submarines.
In his own words, Freestyle Olympic and Commonwealth gold medallist Mack Horton tells us why he swims freestyle, and what he’s looking forward to in the future.
Having a small population does not exclude a country from taking part and even winning gold medals at the Olympic Games. We bring you the top 5 smallest countries to win gold at the Olympics – from Helsinki 1952 over Seoul 1988 to London 2012 – from Anthony Nesty over Hanni Nestel to Kirani James, they took Luxembourg, Grenada, Bahamas, Liechtenstein and Suriname to Olympic glory.
The sharks’ annual pilgrimage to the mid-Pacific region from the coasts of California and Mexico has baffled scientists for years, not just because it is so far away — it takes a month for the sharks to get there — but because it seemed, on the surface, to be lacking the kind of prey or habitat that the toothy carnivores prefer.
But the researchers made a remarkable discovery. Instead of blank, barren sea, the expedition, led by scientists with Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, found a vast community of tiny light-sensitive creatures so tantalizing that the sharks cross the sea en masse to reach them.
The primary lure, scientists believe, is an extraordinary abundance of squid and small fish that migrate up and down in a little understood deep-water portion of ocean known as the “mid-water,†a region skirting the edge of complete darkness that could provide an immeasurably valuable trove of information about the ocean ecosystem and climate change.
“The story of the white shark tells you that this area is vitally important in ways we never knew about,†said Salvador Jorgensen, a research scientist for the Monterey Bay Aquarium and one of the expedition’s leaders. “They are telling us this incredible story about the mid-water, and there is this whole secret life that we need to know about.â€
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