Swimmer's Daily

  • While he may be part of the university swim team and aiming for an Olympic medal, Schooling is still very much the average boy.

    https://youtu.be/ndZv2KvRFag

  • Around the Island Swim in Langebaan. A well organized yearly event.
    Next date: 16 April 2016

  • An Icelandic elementary school has removed gender signs from its bathrooms in an effort to become “gender neutral”. The principal thinks that other schools should do the same. […]

    And removing gender signs from restroom isn’t the only change the school has brought about this year. It has also changed one of the instructions regarding swimming lessons, in a memo that is sent home to parents. Instead of the typical phrasing of “girls should wear swimsuits and boys should wear swimtrunks”, it simply states that children should wear appropriate swim-attire, without categorizing which gender should wear what.

    “We don’t see anything wrong with girls wearing trunks at the swimming pool, if they want to, or boys wearing a swimsuit. The kids can simply choose which one to use.”

    Read gayiceland.is

  • GoPro action camera users can now broadcast their daring adventures live through Twitter’s Periscope app, opening the door to a whole new dimension of real-time video sharing.

    The live-streaming app announced on Tuesday that it was now integrated with GoPro, meaning that the sometimes insane footage captured on wearable cameras can now find a much larger audience – one that is drawn to the attraction of watching events on their phones as the action unfolds.

    With the new feature, people with GoPro cameras can connect their devices to WiFi, open Periscope on an iPhone, tap the “broadcast” button and immediately go live. With a double tap, users can switch between broadcasting from the GoPro and the smartphone camera, and the GoPro will continue to record the footage while it streams.

    Periscope – the app that attracted 10 million users in its first four months last year– has enabled journalists, entertainers, politicians and others to broadcast live to the public directly from their phones.

    Read The Guardian

  • In the future, there will be no escape from robotic observation. Proof (if proof were needed) comes in the form of Loon Copter, a drone developed by Oakland University’s Embedded Systems Research Laboratory that can not only fly, but also land on and even navigate under the water’s surface. The Loon Copter project has been around a while, but this latest prototype is much more polished, and a semifinalist in the 2016 Drones for Goodcompetition.

    At a glance, the Loon Copter looks much like a conventional quadcopter, just with a taller, barrel-like body. The drone can land and float on water,much like other craft, but its party trick is the ability to fill its buoyancy chamber, causing it to safely sink to a few meters beneath the surface. The clever design causes the Loon to tilt 90 degrees in the water, so that its propellors act like outboard motors, letting it navigate the (not very deep) blue like other subaquatic robots. When the water is released, the Loon floats back to the surface, at which point it can take to the skies again.

    Read engadget

  • In December 2016, Windsor will welcome up to 1,000 of the world’s top swimmers from over 175 countries as they compete for World Championship glory in the 13th edition of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m.) Expected to draw more than 35,000 spectators, this elite competition will bring the world’s best swimmers together to compete for 46 gold medals over 6 days in a temporary world championship pool to be constructed within the WFCU Arena.

    See finawindsor2016.com

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  • Sporting bare feet and a shiny necktie, Rujing Tang sat in his dining room and wandered back in time. When he was 10, about the age of his fresh-faced fifth-grade daughter, one of his childhood friends went out to swim in a small river in his birthplace of Shanghai. He never came back.

    That haunting memory, and Tang’s own near drowning in an Oklahoma state park years later, prompted the financial planner cum inventor to develop a water rescue system that uses drones to deliver a flotation device to distressed swimmers. Telecom giant Verizon was impressed enough to award the project $250,000 last month as part of the company’s 2015 Powerful Answers Award contest.

    The yearlong challenge drew 1,400 entries from 78 countries. The contest is designed to help discover and bring to market “technologies that show promise for addressing some of the world’s greatest challenges” in emergency response, transportation and health care, the company said.

    The first-place winner in each category collects $1 million.

    Read The Dallas Morning News

  • Paramedics treated nine people in one day last week for swimming-related injuries, including one near drowning in the Yarra River.

    According to Ambulance Victoria four adults, four teenagers and a child were taken to hospital after separate incidents at various beaches and the Yarra on Sunday, January 17.

    The incidents follow a warning from peak water safety organisation Austswim that safety was more than just an ability to swim laps.

    Read Herald Sun

  • Roanne Ho’s hopes of qualifying for August’s Olympics may have suffered a blow, but the swimmer is just happy to be alive after surviving a life-threatening condition.

    On Wednesday, the SEA Games 50m breaststroke champion went to Bukit Batok Polyclinic to seek treatment for what she thought was “a very bad cough”.

    But an X-ray showed her right lung had collapsed 80 per cent. Ho was rushed to the accident and emergency department at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital.

    Read The Straits Times