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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.”

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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.

  • Michael Phelps talking about Sun Yang during the interview with Sina Sports

  • The International Aquatics Federation says that air conditioning should be installed at the Olympic Park aquatics center, but the city continues to assess the situation.

    FINA Executive Director Cornel Marculescu described the venue to ATR as an “indoor, outdoor pool complex,” that could use more ventilation at the pool level. Marculescu remains impressed with the venue after seeing it in use, saying athlete feedback remains positive.

    In order to save money on energy costs, the aquatics venue has no artificial ventilation system. The temporary venue is wrapped in a fabric that will facilitate a natural cooling system for spectators and athletes.

    “The only thing for us now is to be sure that the level of the pool can have this artificial ventilation so the athletes have the necessary air and it is not too hot or too cold depending on the weather outside,” Marculescu added. “In general what I hear is the athletes are happy, the water is okay, and they feel good in the pool. No news is good news.”

    The aquatics venue is currently in control of the Rio 2016 organizing committee. Rio city hall is currently assessing the need for a potential air conditioning system, but has no timeline for when that decision will be reached, a spokesperson told ATR.

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  • Considering the provisional suspension imposed by FINA to swimmer Yulia Efimova (RUS) and the recent WADA recommendations on the use of Meldonium, the FINA Doping Panel decided to maintain the provisional suspension of this athlete, until a hearing of Ms Efimova is held by the FINA Doping Panel.

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  • Disgraced former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan remains undecided on entering the upcoming national team trials, after he has been ruled out of this year’s Summer Games, his agency said Tuesday.

    Park has registered to compete in the men’s 100m, 200m, 400m and 1,500m freestyle races at the 88th Dong-A Swimming Competition starting on April 25 in Gwangju, some 330 kilometers south of Seoul, according to the meet organizers.

    The competition will double as the second round of the national team trials for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics.

    The deadline to register falls at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Swimmers may still withdraw after the deadline.

    Park, who recently completed an 18-month ban for doping, is training in Australia, but there may be little point to him in racing in Gwangju because he is ineligible for the Olympics.

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  • Tyler Pidde is a member of the YMCA Stingrays Swim Team and one of the nation’s best swimmers who has grown up at the Y. He started with swim lessons more than 10 years ago, qualified for nationals twice this past year and is now pursuing a goal to swim in college. He credits his growth and maturity to the Y and its core values of honesty, respect, caring and responsibility.

  • Brian Bencomo took a look at USC head swim coach Dave Salo and how he coaches not only Trojans, but Olympians as well.

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