Swimmer's Daily

  • The sports presenter Mike Bushell made a splash as he fell in a swimming pool during a live interview on BBC Breakfast.

    Bushell was preparing to chat to the England Commonwealth Games swimmers Sarah Vasey, Adam Peaty, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, Ben Proud and James Guy, who were sitting on the edge of a small pool on Australia’s Gold Coast.

    As he got into the shallow water for the interview, he said: “I’m going to be careful because I’ve got a sound pack on.” But having failed to notice there was another step beneath his feet, Bushell then fell into the deeper water.

    See The Guardian

  • Swimming stars Ian Thorpe and Giaan Rooney were forced to walk the remainder of their journey to the Commonwealth Games aquatic centre to report on the swimming after the car they were in was seized by police.

    The pair were riding in the hire car when Gold Coast police pulled it over because it had been listed in their database as a stolen vehicle.

    Details of the awkward situation were aired by Channel 7 presenters Tom Williams and Mel McLaughlin during coverage of the Games on Saturday night.

    Queensland Police issued a statement in response to questions by The Australian.

    “Last night officers detained a hire vehicle which was identified as travelling with New South Wales licence plates which had been reported stolen,” the statement said.

    “No one has been charged in relation to the incident.”

    Read The Australian

  • Freediving training in Gili Trawangan has been an absolute success! Coming here to just train with Mike Board without a freediving competition was the best decision. It has given me the time to rework many aspects of my diving, to tweak things with zero pressure so that my dives are feeling smoother and more effortless than ever!

  • Jacksonville’s Mayor Curry announced an initiative promoting swim safety as city pools plan to open and the concern over drownings continues.

  • A tourist is spending his vacation recovering in a hospital after he was struck by a watercraft while swimming.

  • Dreams expert Ian Wallace offers advice to callers.

    https://youtu.be/Y48nkI26hWU

  • The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned an advert by Taiwanese electronics company HTC featuring Olympic diver Tom Daley, after it implied that one of its mobile phones could be used in swimming pools.

    The ad sees Mr Daley using the HTC U11 to take selfies while diving from a board and landing in the swimming pool below, submerging the phone in the water.

    But a complainant contacted the ASA after noting that while the instructions for the phone stated it was water resistant in fresh water, the ad misleadingly implied the product would also work in a pool with chlorinated water.

    HTC Europe defended the advertisement, saying that, by landing feet first, Mr Daley was able to keep the U11 within the 1m depth required to remain within the phone’s capabilities.

    It added that the handset could work in different liquid environments for various periods of time, but there were too many variations of water temperature and chemical composition to “provide a statement” that the U11 was compatible with most standard swimming pools.

    Read The Telegraph

  • Another Wonderful Day at the pool!