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  • Chad le Clos (RSA) and Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) were crowned series champions of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2017. Watch the summary of a whole season full of emotions, thrilling duels and, of course, new world records!

  • When homeboy hits the water he displaces an amount based on his size/weight/force of impact. Due to science, that water is only temporarily displaced and rushes back in to fill the gap with the force of many oceans. By timing it just right, all that energy acts in a coordinated fashion to launch the floating object into the sky far higher than seems reasonable.

    Via Geekologie

  • Chad follows in the footsteps of his self-declared hero Michael Phelps, who acted as a YOG Ambassador for Singapore 2010. The influence of Phelps has had a significant impact on Chad’s career as a role model and finally as a rival; Chad triumphed over the Olympic legend in London in 2012 to win the gold medal in the 200 m butterfly and be crowned Olympic champion. After missing out on gold in Rio in 2016, one year later Chad is now back in the number one spot after winning the FINA World Championships this summer in Budapest.

    See Olympic

  • Everyone loves a good waterslide, but few live and breathe them like Ray Smegal. The professional hockey player-turned builder of flowing dreams heads up product development for Canada-based waterpark design firm ProSlide, which recently snipped the ribbon on a record- breaking ride in Melbourne. We chatted with Smegal about the evolution of waterslide design and how he goes about creating the ultimate rider experience.

    Read New Atlas

  • Rutgers University has fired its women’s swimming and diving coach amid mental and verbal abuse allegations.

    Petra Martin’s dismissal came Thursday after athletics director Patrick Hobbs met with the team on Wednesday.

    “[T]he coach and the Director of Athletics mutually agreed that it was in the best interest of the program for the coach to resign,” Rutgers said in a statement.

    Photo by slgckgc

  • Swimming with wild dolphins is something most can only dream of, and jumping into pools with captive animals has become increasingly controversial with environmentalists condemning it as cruel.

    But a Dutch nonprofit believes it has found a way to bring people, especially the disabled community, closer to such a joyful experience through the technological, immersive advances offered by virtual reality.

    The Dolphin Swim Club is the realization of a more than two-decade journey by artist Marijke Sjollema, who had her first chance encounter with a dolphin in 1993 while snorkeling off the coast of Mexico.

    “I saw this gray shadow under the water and my first thought was, ‘This is the end.’ I thought it was a shark,” she told AFP.

    She tried to stay calm “but this shadow was following me. And then there was this split-second that [I] realized that it wasn’t a shark. It was a dolphin.”

    “I didn’t know anything about dolphins, but I instinctively knew, ‘Oh a dolphin, I’m fine. This is a good thing.’”

    Read PRI and see The Dolphin Swim Club

  • With the retirement of Michael Phelps and established stars like Missy Franklin and Ryan Lochte absent, the U.S. swim team arrived in Budapest, Hungary, for the 2017 FINA World Championships with an opening for a new star to emerge.

    By the time the competition was over, Caeleb Dressel did just that, winning seven gold medals, tying a record set by Phelps in 2007. Meanwhile, Katie Ledecky hardly needed an opening to continue her dominance as she came home with six medals, five of them gold.

    For their performances, Dressel and Ledecky were named male and female Athlete of the Year on Sunday night at the USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards in Los Angeles.

    Read Team USA

  • It was the deepest freedive I had ever attempted. Looming beneath me was the deep abyss of Dean’s Blue Hole that plunged to a depth of 200m. I slowed my breathing and checked my heart rate.

    The head judge signalled me over as my name and target depth was announced by the commentator. As I clipped on to the competition line, I knew there was no room for fear.

    Read The Daily Telegraph

  • A leisurely Sunday afternoon Sail on the 12th November 2017 off Mollymook NSW, Australia, became so much more for all of us on board a Sail we survived and one we will never forget! I decided to video the Whales in the distance on the way home to Harbour and then!!!!