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  • On a single breath of air, Guillaume Néry explores the deepest pool in the world in Italy: Y40. The action is filmed on breath hold by his wife Julie Gautier.

    https://youtu.be/yzh0woiH7Jw

  • A young man died after getting into difficulties while swimming in Loch Lomond.

    Police, ambulance crews and a helicopter were called three miles from the village of Luss after the alarm was raised at about 1.50pm yesterday.

    Officers confirmed that the body of a man was recovered less than two hours later. It is understood that his death was not being treated as suspicious and he was believed to have drowned.

    A spokeswoman for Police Scotland said: “Police received a report that a 20-year-old man had got into difficulty whilst swimming in Loch Lomond, approximately three miles north of Luss.

    “Following a rescue operation the man’s body was recovered at 3.45pm. A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.”

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  • If you want to get ahead in synchronized swimming it pays to be able to multitask.

    Described as “ballet in water,” the strength and flexibility required to deliver routines that can be up to five minutes long might look effortless in competition, but this is a discipline that takes up to six hours a day of daily practice.

    “The training is going on in the gym as well as the water,” Hungarian synchronized swimming team’s head coach Natalia Tarasova told CNN Sport’s Christina Macfarlane ahead of the FINA World Aquatics Championships which start Friday in Budapest.

    “There is usually one and a half hours in the gym. We are doing a lot of counting with the music as well, so we are doing music training in the gym as well as in the water.”

    Strong legs, eye coordination and teamwork are key, says Tarasova.

    “It’s a lot of leg work and a lot of looking, so you have to be really careful with the other girls and you have to be a team member to do all this hard work underwater.”

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  • Honorary Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Bishop wore his flight suit Wednesday after completing pool training and basic air crewman training with the US Coast Guard.

  • While going for a swim at Nurture by Nature in the hills of Southern California, a smiling woman (perhaps an employee?) was swarmed by a litter of Asian small-clawed baby otters who were just learning how to swim. The pups had been born at the Center and were still seemingly unsure of themselves judging by the way they clung onto her folded arms.

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  • So the other day, it happened again: I was swimming inside the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in uptown Charlotte, more than halfway through my workout, when all the lifeguards blew their whistles at once.

    I pretended not to hear it at first, but by the time I completed another lap, one of the guards was leaning over the edge of the pool into my lane.

    “Thunder,” she said. “We need everyone out.”

    It’s a pretty simple rule, and practically everyone who uses a public or community pool knows it: Any thunder or lightning – and boy, has there been a lot of both this summer – means everyone must leave the water immediately, and stay out for 30 minutes. Each additional sound of thunder or sight of lightning begins a new countdown. Once 30 thunder-/lightning-less minutes have elapsed, it’s considered safe to go back in.

    This rule applies to the vast majority of publicly accessible pools, both indoor and outdoor, in the Charlotte area. And I get it when it comes to outdoor swimming pools; although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are only around 1 in 500,000, engaging in outdoor recreational activities certainly can increase your risk.

    But after my 12th (13th? 14th? I’ve lost count) interrupted swim this year due to a storm, I decided to try to answer a question that neither a remarkable number of phone calls nor the Internet – believe it or not – wasn’t definitively able to: Can you really get struck by lightning while swimming in an indoor pool?

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  • ‘With pride, we present Eindhoven Challenges: Beat the Boss. Beat the Boss stimulates company vitality in a particularly refreshing way as employees are challenging their bosses. The kick-off was on July 3 and we end the challenge on August 26th at Swim to Fight Cancer, a 2 km swim in the Eindhoven channel. Check out the kick-off training of the participating companies TMC, Van der Valk Hotel Eindhoven and IAK. For more information go to www.eindhovenchallenges.nl/beattheboss‘