Swimmer's Daily

  • Thousands of gallons of water, no way out.

  • Why is Jamie diving off a 10 metre high board with Tom Daley?
    He lost the Ultimate Cheesecake Battle and has to face the Ultimate Forfeit, obviously.

  • As one of Europe’s most famous cities, Budapest has become a tourist hotspot known for its history, its architecture and its love of water. While most people soak above the surface in the city’s famed geothermal baths, below the metropolis lies a secret subterranean world ripe for exploration. The Hungarian capital is home to over 80 geothermal springs. As this naturally heated water flowed deep below the Earth’s surface, it carved out hundreds of caves, making Budapest home to the largest collection of thermal caves in the world. Though divers have charted more than four miles of tunnels since the 1950s, much remains to be explored.

    This Great Big Story was made in partnership with the Hungarian Tourism Agency. (http://www.gotohungary.com)

  • BBC anchor Simon McCoy became a social media sensation on Monday for a report on surfing dogs he delivered with all the enthusiasm of a hostage video.

    “Just bear in mind, it is August,” he said as he began reading his script about the World Dog Surfing Championship in California.

    The report that followed was punctuated by so many pauses and heavy sighs that McCoy appeared to be contemplating what, exactly, had gone wrong in his life to bring him to this moment.

    See Huffington Post

  • Agencies and officials in the City of Ithaca sent similar messages to the community after an incoming Cornell University student drowned near Ithaca Falls on Saturday – stay out of the water when visiting the beautiful gorges in the area.

    Winston Perez-Ventura, 17, a native of the Dominican Republic who resided in the Bronx, entered Fall Creek with friends near Fall Creek Drive on Saturday afternoon and did not resurface after disappearing underwater. His body was eventually found by emergency responders about 5 hours later near Ithaca Falls.

    Donations have poured in from all over the country through a GoFundMe page to help the family of Perez-Ventura, who drew national attention in December when ABC News featured his story. Perez-Ventura planned to study architecture at Cornell and came to the U.S. at age 9 from the Dominican Republic. He was the first student at his high school to be accepted to college.

    While the community has come together by raising more than $24,000 in one day to assist his family (surpassing the $20,000 goal), Perez-Ventura’s death is a sad reminder of the power and danger of the gorges.

    See Ithaca Journal

  • Paris has always been generous to its summer dwellers. Fifteen years ago, it launched Paris-Plages, a beachlike setup on the Seine river to entertain Parisians who can’t get away during the summer months.

    The riverbank expressway shuts down for a month to make room for chaise lounges, umbrellas, kids’ games, concerts, pop-up restaurants and cafés.

    This season, after years of painstaking water cleanup and testing, the city is innovating again by offering a free swimming spot, in a canal.

    Listen to PRI and NPR, and see AFP

  • On June 20th 2017, Avram Iancu, the Romanian librarian who established a national record in 2016 by swimming the English Channel without a neoprene suit, takes up a new challenge. His dream is to swim along the entire Danube. 2860 km, 60 days, 10 hours of swimming per day, no thermal protection.

  • Katie Ledecky wins gold and smashes the world record in the 400m freestyle on her way to a historic Rio Olympics.

  • All swimmers get asked a series of post race questions in the mixed zone. We show you how you are supposed to respond vs how you would like to respond to them!