Swimmer's Daily

  • Find out what James Guy listens to before a big race, the difference between a good and a great swimmer, and his advice for young swimmers.

    https://youtu.be/Xirm0piB9BQ

  • Antonio Negron is a freediving fisherman who spears each catch on a single breath. Join him on a dive into the waters of Culebra, Puerto Rico and understand the importance of catching only what you need to survive.​

  • When you associate “open water” and “Brazil”, the inevitable result is Ana Marcela Cunha. With six medals (two of each colour) at the FINA World Championships since 2011, the Brazilian champion is also a shining star in the annual circuit of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup.

  • A group of UK adventurers have made history as the first Brits believed to have freedived in Antarctica. Will Glendinning, 40, made the treacherous journey to the planet’s most southerly continent with friend Dave Crump and four other crew members. Freediving involves going underwater without breathing equipment and relies on the diver’s ability to hold their breath for minutes at a time. Classed as an extreme sport, it is especially dangerous in the Southern Ocean, with icebergs “the size of small countries” threatening to collapse and crush divers beneath their weight. As a result, only around 10 people are known to have gone freediving in Antarctica.

  • A high school swim club is in hot water after school officials say the girls hired a male stripper to perform at their swimming banquet last week.

    The students were gathered at an off-campus facility in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday when the dancer dropped in, making a splash, a district official confirmed.

    “It turned out it was the older sister of a freshman who hired the stripper,” Phil Roeder, director of communications for Des Moines public schools, told The Huffington Post Wednesday.

    He said the idea came from a similar stunt that was pulled off by the club about seven or eight years ago. Because it wasn’t until later on that that event was discovered, the Roosevelt High School students had escaped discipline.

    Roeder said the freshman student’s older sister, who he described as a graduate in her early 20s, suggested that the club “renew that tradition.”

    But apparently not everyone was on board — including the staff at the Des Moines Social Club, which Roeder said booted the stripper from their building.

    Read Huffington Post

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  • An underwater drone has found the Loch Ness Monster but not the one many people are hoping for.

    The fabled Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as Nessie in Scotland, has been the focus of searches for decades but all efforts have failed. However, an autonomous underwater vehicle has found a 30-foot model of the Loch Ness Monster in the freshwater Scottish lake.

    The model appeared in the 1970 movie The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes but it sank in the loch. Munin, the underwater drone operated by Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime, has scanned the depths of the lake and captured images of the lost Nessie model.

    Adrian Shine, a Loch Ness expert, says that the measurements, location and shape of the model matches that of the movie prop.

    “We have found a monster, but not the one many people might have expected. The model was built with a neck and two humps and taken alongside a pier for filming of portions of the film in 1969,” says Shine. “The director did not want the humps and asked that they be removed, despite warnings I suspect from the rest of the production that this would affect its buoyancy. And the inevitable happened. The model sank.”

    Read Tech Times and Time

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  • A diver who was bitten by a bull shark while free diving for cobia is being treated at the hospital, fire fighters say. Terri Parker reports.