Follow Per when he practises with SK Neptun Masters. Per used to swim, but has not practiced swimming actively in several years.
With English subtitles
https://youtu.be/kU5_Lqoj1gM
Swimmer’s Daily note: SK Neptun Masters train in Eriksdalsbadet in Stockholm, Sweden. I got to try their morning practice back in 2014, and highly recommend it.
About 100 people were knocked off an ocean rock platform they were standing on when a massive wave hit on Saturday. The event, which was captured on a GoPro by Instagram user Jakee T, occurred at the Figure Eight Pools in the Royal National Park in Sydney.
See Mashable
https://youtu.be/AkXpTTNE81g
https://youtu.be/4sfgvfKlGf8
Serbia: triumphant start in front of 11,000 fans
Water polo was lifted to a new level on Sunday: the last game of the opening day of the 32nd European Championships showed this sport from a different perspective as 11,000 fans filled the stands of the Kombank Arena while Serbia and Croatia produced a great game. This was the highest ever attendance in the history of the Europeans.
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The Dominican Republic is full of caves you can swim through if you are brave enough to face the dark waters.
The caves are part of the El Choco National Park in Cabarete, and a 10-minute walk from the beach.
Hikers can cliff jump into chilly, cavernous pools, under stalactite-covered cave ceilings that were formed by dripping water over the course of thousands of years.
For a $2 entrance fee, it’s worth taking a break from the beach for an hour of spelunking.
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The scale of the problem facing the world’s oceans first struck Boyan Slat during a summer holiday to Greece when he was 16.
Instead of colourful fish in azure waters, his abiding memory of the trip is of plastic debris on beaches and in the waves.
Now 21, the Dutch entrepreneur is planning to deploy a pilot device off southern Japan that will, if all goes according to plan, gather and capture some of the millions of tons of plastic that is clogging up the world’s oceans.
And if the small-scale Ocean Cleanup Array can be demonstrated to work off the island of Tsushima from next year, a larger version could be sited halfway between Hawaii and California in 2020 as the most ambitious effort to rid the Pacific of plastic rubbish to date.
“This is truly a global problem”, Mr Slat told The Telegraph from his organisation’s offices in the Dutch city of Delft.
“An estimated 8 million tons of plastic enters the world’s oceans every year, which is the equivalent volume of two Empire State Buildings every week”.
Read The Telegraph
https://youtu.be/6IjaZ2g-21E
A blend of Into The Wild and The Wave, ONE BREATH is about the life and death of America’s greatest freediver, and an in depth look at the extreme and elegant sport of competetive freediving. It’s about seeking adventure and authenticity, pushing limits and finding love. This video is just a sneak peek. Log on to onebreathbook.com or adamskolnick.com for information.
After failing to reach an agreement with the Hungarian Swimming Federation, Hungarian competitive swimmer Katinka Hosszú today tore up her contract with the federation and announced at a press conference that she would train privately on her own, according to reports.
The contract Hosszú tore apart today valued at approximately HUF 12 million, was offered to her for promoting the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, the swimmer claims. She reportedly said she does not need the money, and that the federation should keep it and use it to establish “appropriate conditions†for Hungarian swimmers.
Read Budapest Business Journal and see Hungary Today
World champions highlight the winners’ list of the 2015 LEN Awards. European athletes were dominant at last year’s showcase in Kazan, in most disciplines it was a hard call to choose among the best performers.
The winners in swimming came from the same nation: Laszlo Cseh and Katinka Hosszu both represent Hungary. Earlier only the Germans could achieve this double when Paul Biedermann and Britta Steffen won the awards in 2009.
