Swimmer's Daily

  • Former Olympic swimmer and two-time gold medalist Klete Keller used the app Wag to find a dogsitter, and very much regretted it when he came home to find two shirtless men on his couch with “personal lubricant” and a camera.

    Keller spoke with Colorado Springs–based Fox 21 News and described the scene when he arrived home. His house stunk; there were the aforementioned shirtless guys; there were “bodily fluids” on his couch; and the dogsitter was taking a shower. Oh, and his dog Jimbo was locked in a room, sitting in his own piss.

    Fox 21 actually talked to the dogsitter, who asked to remain anonymous and did not have a convincing explanation for the guys and lube:

    “To be completely honest, I didn’t have WD-40 and my keys were stuck in my car, so I ended up grabbing what I had in my car, for things, that you know, I do on my personal time and I didn’t think to put it back in my car,” said the woman.

    See Deadspin

  • The 48-year-old finished the 560km (348 mile) gruelling swim from Land’s End in Cornwall to Dover in Kent in 49 days.

    He was greeted at Shakespeare Beach by Environment Secretary Michael Gove.

    The environmental campaigner and UN Patron of the Oceans began the challenge on 12 July, swimming 10 to 20km (six to 12 miles) every day.

    Mr Pugh, from Plymouth, Devon, said he felt “relieved and exhilarated”.

    “It’s been very, very long, we’ve been going for 49 days and I’m exhausted, physically exhausted, mentally exhausted, so delighted to be here.”

    He is estimated to have made 500,000 to 750,000 strokes along the journey.

    Read BBC

    https://youtu.be/2HLtPnBmBzE

  • In a world of increasing pressures, it’s easy to let problems manifest. German triathlete Liz Kellerer takes us to the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands to show us how wild swimming can help lead to both a healthy body and mind.

  • ‘Marko Pejcinoski, the youngest swimmer who swam the Lake Ohrid (Sveti Naum – City port).’

    https://youtu.be/lLTW5Wem3-s

  • Keith Ellenbogen and his colleagues aboard a Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary boat had seen a fin on the morning of Aug. 17, about 6 miles north of Provincetown. The slow movement of the fin, and the giant circle it made in the flat water, led the group to decide it must be a basking shark, which are not generally dangerous to humans.

    Ellenbogen, who is photographing wildlife in the sanctuary in the first of a three-year grant, grabbed his camera and slipped into the water in a wetsuit, mask, snorkel and flippers.

    But as the murky water cleared just under the surface, he realized the fin belonged to a great white shark, approximately 16 feet long, that was also near the surface and swimming straight toward him.

    Read Cape Cod Times

  • The secrets to converting a twenty-meter racing yacht into a vessel seaworthy of a historic voyage? Reverse osmosis and fiberglass batteries, of course.

  • Police in northern Spain launched an investigation after a dead wolf’s head and tail were left in a public swimming pool in a protest by farmers over attacks by wolves on their livestock.

    The Guardia Civil’s wildlife protection unit is trying to find out who dumped the grisly remains at an open-air pool in the village of Infiesto, in the Picos de Europa mountain range of eastern Asturias.

    The wolf is a protected species in Asturias, but angry protestors blocked country roads near the Picos de Europa National Park on Saturday, demanding more support as they fight to save their sheep, goats and calves from apparent wolf attacks.

    Read The Telegraph

    Photo by MarkC333

  • Lewis Pugh is swimming the length of the Channel – around 330 miles (530km) – from Cornwall to Dover, to raise awareness of the world’s oceans.

  • Five-time world swimming champion Yuliya Yefimova may make a decision concerning her professional career in a spontaneous manner, and she may stay to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games, she said in an interview with TASS.

    “I will definitely be swimming a year after Tokyo [the 2020 Olympics – TASS], we will see. Maybe I’ll wake up tomorrow and say: “That’s it, I want to get married.” It depends on me and what’s happening around me. So far I’m not planning to go anywhere, the 2020 Olympics are ahead, and who knows, then there’s the year 2024,” the 26-year-old swimmer said.

    “The world is changing. I wanted to stop at 16, then at 18, and I’m still here,” she added.

    Read TASS

    https://youtu.be/F0iA22exZiI