Swimmer's Daily

  • Caeleb Dressel won the 2016 50-Yard Freestyle NCAA Championship with an American record breaking time of 18.20 seconds!

  • The Library Speaker Series featured Dara Torres, author of the best-sellers “Age is Just a Number” and “Gold Medal Fitness,” on March 16, 2016. Torres is arguably the fastest female swimmer in America. Dara spoke about what it takes to be a world champion, staying graceful in defeat, and staying fit into the fifties. She has competed in five Olympic games and has won 12 Olympic medals.

  • Olympic Silver Medallist, Double World Champion and Great Swim ambassador Keri-anne Payne shares her top suggestions to help you tackle the impressive 10k marathon swim at the 2016 Great North Swim, Great East Swim and Great Scottish Swim!

  • A crowdfunding campaign for a product that claims to allow humans to breathe underwater without the use of scuba equipment has raised over a half million dollars so far. The Triton — “artificial gills” that will work similarly to gills on fish — supposedly allows swimmers to breathe underwater. The project is listed on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo.

    “With Triton there’s no heavy equipment, complicated safety procedures or training. It’s easy to use, and no longer than a snorkel,” Triton founders Saeed Khademi and Jeabyun Yeon state on the Indiegogo page. “Gently bite into the mouthpiece, breathe normally, and enjoy a sense of underwater freedom unavailable until now. Just imagine exploring gin-clear waters, alongside tropical fish, without bulky equipment or having to surface for air.”

    The artificial gills are actually made of microporous hollow fiber, which are lined with threads with tiny holes that allow oxygen to pass through so divers can breathe. The website says that users can dive for about 45 minutes, at depths of about 15 feet.

    However, there are some individuals who believe that we are still far away from being able to breathe underwater without scuba gear, and that the Triton product may potentially be dangerous.

    “The device shown cannot work as described (and even if it did, it would be extremely dangerous), there is simply too little dissolved gas in water to allow the principle to work in any practical way,” one poster wrote on Metabunk, a discussion forum dedicated to discussing and debating scientific topics. “Note that the device is specifically claimed to allow a person to breathe comfortably, not that it performs any other more obscure actions to deliver metabolically required [oxygen] and remove [carbon dioxide] from the body.”

    The project has raised over $600,000 on Indiegogo.

    Read Tech.Mic

  • Summers in central Texas can be a struggle between being really hot and being really just too damn hot. Relief is wherever you can find it — your air-conditioned car, your air-conditioned office or an ice-cold Lone Star or three.

    For some cold-blooded Texans, though — and even some adventure-seeking outsiders — relief from the Texas heat is just a small jump away, into the cool, clean, clear waters of Jacob’s Well. But it comes at a price.

    As cool and as nice as it is, you have to be a little crazy to take that jump.

    Read Mother Nature Network

    Jacobs Well In Wimberley, Texas..

    https://youtu.be/jhtbLg86nOA

    Featured photo by Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

  • Six Chinese swimmers failed their doping tests during the year 2015-2016, announced the China Swimming Association (CSA) here on late Thursday.

    Three of the six swimmers were tested positive for Clenbuterol in out-competition tests, namely Zhao Ying, Wang Lizhuo and An Jiabao. Zhao and Wang, both from Chinese Navy, were tested last August, and An, from team Tianjin, was tested last September. None of the three has taken part in Olympic Games or World Championships.

    All of them asked for tests of sample B but got the same results. They all applied for the hearings.

    The Hearing Panel has conducted the separate hearings of those three swimmers on Dec. 22, 2015 and Jan. 13, 2016, and made conclusions that the positive results were mainly caused by contaminated food.

    The CSA announced that the investigations and hearing procedures for those three positive cases have been finished, and it will give corresponding punishments according to the hearing and WADA CODE, and China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) will publish all related information and the decisions on its website after receiving the formal decision made by the CSA.

    The other three swimmers were tested positive for Hydrochlorothiazide in out-competition tests in January, 2016. All gave up sample B tests but applied for hearings.

    The hearings have not been held yet.

    The three swimmers have been banned from all national and international competitions by CHINADA though the final decision will be made after the hearings.

    Read Xinhua

    Photo by Philip Jägenstedt

  • See virginactive.co.uk

    https://vimeo.com/160246139

  • Today, Lake Merritt is known as the Crown Jewel of Oakland, but it used to be called by a different name: the Lake of 1,000 Smells. To figure how to make it a swimming lake, it’d be good to know how it became un-swimmable in the first place.

  • Pool season is here and our little Dolfin Swim School Swimmer, Rylan, alongside Texas Drowning Prevention Alliance has four quick tips for water safety!