When the small Japanese seaside town of Susami needed a tourism boost, an unlikely resident came to the rescue: the town’s postmaster. Together with the local diving community, former postmaster Toshihiko Matsumoto helped establish the world’s first underwater mailbox. Those willing to make the plunge can strap on a wetsuit and mail letters from 30 feet under the sea. Incredibly, dive shop owner Hiroaki Yamatani descends each day to collect and deliver these letters to the post office. To date, almost 38,000 letters have been sent from under the sea.
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3 Alcatraz inmates survived 1962 escape, swam to land, letter suggests
A letter emerged Tuesday that was purportedly written by a former inmate at Alcatraz who — along with two others — managed to escape the island prison only to vanish without a trace.
The running theory about the inmates’ fate is that they died shortly after stepping foot into the cold waters that separated the prison and San Francisco. But their bodies were never found and their story remains a mystery.
Prison officials and federal agents insisted at the time of the escape that the inmates — brothers John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris — perished.
CBS San Francisco reported that it obtained a letter allegedly written by John Anglin. The letter contains an admission of escape and an explanation of the inmates’ fate.
“My name is John Anglin,†the letter reads. “I escape (sic) from Alcatraz in June 1962 with my brother Clarence and Frank Morris. I’m 83 years old and in bad shape. I have cancer. Yes we all made it that night but barely.â€
The letter continued, “If you announce on TV that I will be promised to first go to jail for no more than a year and get medical attention, I will write back to let you know exactly where I am. This is no joke.â€
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How to Draw a SWIMMER with Ease | Swimmer Drawing | Simple Drawing| Little Soldiers
How to Draw a SWIMMER with Ease | Swimmer Drawing | Simple Drawing| Little Soldiers Watch our drawing Video How to Draw a SWIMMER with Ease on our YouTube Channel “Little Soldiers”.
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Cullen Jones Hosts a Swim 1922 Swim Clinic at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Austin
Cullen Jones in conjunction with Swim 1922 of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, hosted a swim clinic as part of the weekend’s activities during the TYR Pro Swim Series at Austin
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Safe Internet Day – Mitch Larkin, Olympic swimmer
Olympic swimmer Mitch Larkin shows respect in the pool and out of the pool. When he’s online and offline.
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Michael Andrew Hosted a Swim Clinic During the TYR Pro Swim Series at Austin
National Team member Michael Andrew hosted a swim Clinic that took place during the TYR Pro Swim Series at Austin.
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Wild swimmer goes for a dip in frozen Loch Glascarnoch in Highlands
An experienced open and wild swimmer has been filmed breaking ice on the surface of a Highlands loch.
Norman Todd, 45, managed about 10 minutes in Loch Glascarnoch near Garve in Wester Ross on Saturday. The loch frequently has some the lowest temperatures in winter.
The offshore worker, from Ullapool, is training to take part in a swim of The Minch, a stretch of water between Scotland’s north west mainland coast and the Western Isles.
Norman previously swam in the sea between Achiltibuie and Ullapool to raise money for a marine conservation project
Photographer and film-maker Steven Gourlay, who filmed Norman’s icy dip, said the air temperature on Saturday was almost -8C.
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Russia: Nearly nude Putin dips in icy pool to celebrate Orthodox Epiphany in manly-man tradition
Trump, better remember who’s boss!
Via Boing Boing
Featured image courtesy of Kremlin Press Service, CC BY 4.0 (Kremlin copyrights)
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Adam Stern is a freediver, which means he can swim up to 300 feet underwater on a single breath
Stern’s deepest dive was 106 meters on a single breath. Now he’s training to become the deepest freediver in the world.