Whale shark swimming tours are a popular tourist draw in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. These tours are promoted as a way to boost the local economy and the conservation of this endangered species, but sometimes the tour operators and tourists don’t follow the rules further risking the well-being of the sharks.
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Martin Strel, Marathon Swimmer | HUMAN Limits
Meet the man who swims the world’s longest rivers with crocodiles and piranhas.
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Rio 2016: Police arrest EOC president Patrick Hickey
Irish IOC official Patrick Hickey was reportedly rushed to a hospital after Brazilian police arrested him in connection with illegal sales of Olympic tickets. Diane Hodges reports.
https://youtu.be/4ZqVqu-LuEE
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Valeu, Phelps! (Tks, Phelps!) – Rio 2016
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Australian swimming medallists react to rollercoaster week
All the individual medallists of the Australian swim team spoke to the media about how they were able to handle the pressure of an olympic games. Kyle Chalmers, Emma McKeon, Mack Horton, Maddie Groves, Mitch Larkin and coach Jacco Verhaeren.
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Dødsing, the Sport of Death Diving
It’s not a bellyflop competition, it’s called dødsing which kinda translates do “deathing”. The idea is that you spread out as you would for a bellyflop, but tuck into a sort of folded-in-half-dive right before hitting the water. The contestants are scored based on style and how long they wait before tucking in. I’m pretty sure a full-blown bellyflop from that height (10m) is potentially very harmfull. As the name implies it’s about narrowly avoiding death.
https://youtu.be/0T0OLR4MzrM
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What will Cam McEvoy’s coach say to him before the 100m freestyle final?
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The World’s Most Difficult Dives in La Rochelle | Cliff Diving World Series 2016
La Rochelle, France, the fourth stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, saw a huge crowd of 70,000 fans gather at the harbour as the world’s elite male divers battled it out from 27 metres in the Bay of Biscay. Watch the clip and relive the top dives from Jonathan Paredes, Kris Kolanus and the world’s most difficult dive from Gary Hunt: a front 3 somersaults with 4 ½ twists free.
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William Trubridge CNF World Record Freedive 102m
In July 2016, I broke my longstanding (5.5 years!) record in the purest freediving discipline, Constant Weight No Fins, by swimming to 102 meters (334 feet) and back on a single breath of air, and with no propulsive assistance. The dive was televised to breakfast TV in NZ, and sponsored by Steinlager Pure.
Featured in the video are safety divers Jonathan Sunnex, Dean Chaouche and Sofia Gomez, announcer Shiv Madhu, medics Tom Ardavany and Jani Valdivia, and AIDA judges Carla-Sue Hanson and Rob King.