Swimmer's Daily

  • Pavlo cannot imagine his life without swimming. He has been swimming competitively since the age of 5. Now he will be representing his country at the 2017 Invictus Games.

  • The goal was an ambitious one: Create an underwater, “Iron Man”-inspired jetpack capable of propelling someone through water faster than Olympian Michael Phelps on his best day in the pool.

    In the process, Ryan Kung and David Shulman, two Silicon Valley engineers behind “Eclectical Engineering” – a YouTube channel dedicated to bringing imaginative contraptions to life – knew they’d be embarking on their most dangerous project to date, a reality that did little to deter the duo.

    See Press Herald

  • Olympian and World Champion Kelsi Worrell offers some advice on dolphin kicks off the wall.

  • Swimmer Kristine Buckley plans to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco for the 1,000th time on Saturday. When she does, she will be the first woman to achieve that milestone. Joe Vazquez reports.

  • The plesiosaur is long extinct, but thanks to a biomechanical engineer, it has been reincarnated — as a robot. This new so-called “robosaur” reveals the secret behind the animal’s odd but powerful swimming style, which could inspire alternatives to boat and submarine propellers.

    See PBS

  • The drone can arrive to the struggling swimmer before the lifeguard and drop an inflatable device to keep the swimmer afloat until the lifeguard arrives.

    Lifeguards can work with these drones to save lives faster

  • The system won’t stop shark attacks butt will give swimmers and surfers a heads up that a shark is near. Michele Gile reports.

    Corona Del Mar Will Test Early-Warning Shark System

  • Drones are becoming an important part of the emergency services. Police are using them to search for missing people, while fire departments test them as a tool to survey dangerous sites. Until now, however, we haven’t seen or heard about them being used by the coastguard. That all changes today, however, as a lifeboat service in Norfolk, England, has started using them in open water. As the BBC reports, they’re equipped with cameras that can live-stream footage to monitors inside the boat. They could prove useful in choppy conditions when the crew can’t see above the waves.

  • Pyeongchang will be hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics — but not every country is convinced that South Korea hosting is entirely safe. France has become the first country to come out and say that if South Korea cannot guarantee safety from their neighbor, North Korea, it will stay home for the Olympics. North Korea is currently involved in an international standoff over nuclear weapons that has some leaders uneasy.

    “If this gets worse and we do not have our security assured, then our French team will stay here,” Laura Flessel said, per RTL radio. “We will not put our team in danger.”

    Read CBS Sports

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