Swimmer's Daily

  • The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Lagos, has warned that unless the world stops the indiscriminate disposal of used plastics, the number of plastics in the ocean globally would be far and above aquatics animals by 2050.

    The global body also disclosed that at least 8 million tonnes of used plastics are thrown into the ocean annually by users.

    Speaking on Tuesday at the Muetala Muhammed Airport (MMA), Lagos, at the first World Environment Day 2018 celebration organised by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) in conjunction with the Nigerian Environmental Society (NES), Dr. Ronald Kayanja, the Secretary-General of United Nations, who was represented by a Director UNIC, Lagos, lamented that people indiscriminately disposed used plastics.

    He said apart from the health hazards to aquatic animals, it also constitutes challenge on humans especially cancer and other ailments.

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  • Faced with a full-blown mid-life crisis, accountant Eric (Rob Brydon) joins an all-male group of synchronised swimmers, discovering that making patterns in a pool can, for a couple of hours at least, smooth out the bumps in his work and marriage. Initially keeping their personal lives in the locker, the ramshackle squad and coach Susan (Charlotte Riley) slowly learn to reveal their inner lives, as well as their paunches. But can they get their lives and routines in sync as they embark on an unlikely journey to Milan to compete in the World Championship?

  • Back for its second year, AirAsia presents Ben Proud’s Talent Pool 2018 started in Manila, Philippines. The clinic aimed to bring world class coaching to young, aspiring swimmers in the Filipino capital so that these swimmers can #DareToDream. We hope this clinic initiative will help drive future swimming success across the region.

  • Miller Swim School says drownings on the rise

  • Extreme sportsman Ross Edgley is aiming to swim all the way around Britain’s coastline without touching dry land once. It’ll take 100 days and he’ll burn 1 million calories during his 2000-mile venture which, if all goes well will end in London on the 8th of September. In a recent swim he managed to get trench foot after swimming for 48 hours non-stop.

  • Get Fired up for the 2018 Phillips 66 National Championships July 25 -29 in Irvine, Cal. Get tickets now to watch the fastest swimmers in the nation attempt to qualify for the Pan Pacific Championships

  • A 51-year-old French-born adventurer began an attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, saying his endurance odyssey is also intended to focus world attention on environmental challenges, like the plastics that are contaminating the world’s oceans.

    Benôit “Ben” Lecomte entered the water in Choshi, Japan, aiming to reach San Francisco about six months from now, after a swim estimated at 5,500 miles.

    Lecomte said he is undertaking the expedition as a kind of existential challenge and to help publicize threats like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — the vast expanse of man-made pollution that fouls that ocean. A website for the journey called the Longest Swimpromises groundbreaking studies into the health of phytoplankton, the impact of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear accident, and the results of sea life making a home on plastic debris.

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  • Northern California voters have removed a judge from office over a controversial sentencing decision, according to an Associated Press projection. Judge Aaron Persky was targeted for giving a short jail sentence to Brock Turner, a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexual assault with the intent to commit rape. John Blackstone reports.

  • Taking part in Great North Swim, 8-10 June? Check out the official weather forecast brought to you by the Met Office.