Swimmer's Daily

  • Watch our behind the scenes interview with Team Speedo GB swimmer, James Guy, to find out more about the freestyle gold medallist, including how he relaxes and why he’s a long-time Lion King fan.

  • Olympic silver medalist Ryan Cochrane discusses the important topic of Community with his classrooms. Ryan gives several examples of how the communities around him make him a better swimmer, as well as examples of the different ways he gives back to his community. Ryan challenges his students to impact their communities in a positive way during the month.

    https://youtu.be/bAyMiKZl3MQ

  • How to save yourself from drowning: Amazing video shows marine turning his TROUSERS into a life-jacket.

    https://youtu.be/6tKI5RTr6M8

  • Living in the small town of Creston hasn’t stopped Camryn from dreaming big.

  • If there’s any piece of James Bond’s wardrobe more iconic than his Omega Seamaster or Crockett & Jones shoes, it’s the itsy bitsy blue La Perla swim trunks he wore in Casino Royale. A picture taken of a very buff Craig exiting the ocean in said trunks during filming 10 years ago might just be the best-known shot of him that exists today—a fact that would no doubt piss the actor off more than being asked to pout on command. In a new interview with Time Out New York, the franchise’s moodiest Bond revealed that the image was brought about in the most Daniel Craig way possible.

    “That was a big accident, that particular shot,” he responded when asked how he feels when looking at it. “I was pretending to swim in shallow water, and then I stood up and walked out of the water. I was pretending to be too cool to swim, I thought it looked stupid and stood up, and I walked off—and that was the shot.”

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  • The last leg of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015- in Dubai (UAE) – on November 6-7 will be live streamed free of charge on FINAtv.

    Friday November 6, 2015
    Finals: 18:00 (GMT+4)

    Saturday November 7, 2015
    Finals: 18:00 (GMT+4)

    See start lists and results here on omegatiming.com

    More details about the competition can be found at: http://bit.ly/1QfmNm9

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  • Team Denmark has picked five swimmers to be part of the Danish Olympic team participating in the 2016 Olympics in Rio next summer.

    Jeanette Ottesen, Lotte Friis, Rikke Møller Pedersen, Mie Ø Nielsen and Viktor Bromer were selected today by the Danish athletics association DFI in co-operation with the national swimming association Dansk Svømmeunion.

    “All five swimmers are among the elite and have delivered results at the European Championships and World Championships over the past year,” said Lars Green Bach, the sporting director of Dansk Svømmeunion.

    “We know that the Olympic Games always offer close races, but we also know that the swimmers have the potential to make an impact in the finals.”

    Read The Copenhagen Post

  • Underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen and MIT theoretical physicist Allan Adams might seem unlikely partners, but the pair have just teamed up to produce high-speed videos for the New England Aquarium. If the early results are anything to go by, that’s very good news for ocean research!

    The two met at a dinner party in 2013 and began to talk about high-speed cameras. Ellenbogen was working with the New England Aquarium on promotional content and Adams had recently discovered a collection of high-speed camera equipment at MIT. They soon realized that they could work together to produce unique underwater videos. Their first project together was to capture footage of a cuttlefish hunting. A cuttlefish typically strikes within a fraction of a second, making it practically impossible to see with the naked eye, but Ellenbogen and Adams were able to capture it in slow-motion.

    This impressive video led to the New England Aquarium creating a television ad for the first time since the 1970s. Ellenbogen and Allan ended up working together on an entire ad campaignfor the aquarium. The combination of Ellenbogen’s underwater videography skills and Adams’ knowledge of high-speed cameras led to incredible results and an excellent way to attract visitors to the aquarium. Shortly thereafter, Allan arranged for Ellenbogen to receive a MIT visiting artist fellowship and the two now teach classes together.

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  • Humans have been swimming inefficiently for hundreds of years and could move more quickly in the water by imitating eels and jellyfish, scientists believe.

    Experiments by Stanford University have shown for the first time just how the sea creatures undulate through the water, and it has thrown up some surprises.

    Previously it was thought that jellyfish and lamprey eels and pushed off against the water, like a human swimmer does when kicking.

    But new research has found that their undulating motion actually sucks water towards them creating a current which propels them forward. It saves energy and allows them to glide in elegant pulsating movements through the water.

    The effect is similar to the dolphin kick used by professional swimmers when they first enter the water and suggests that undulating motion is the best technique in the pool.

    “It confounds all our assumptions,” said John Dabiri, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at Stanford University.

    “Our experiments show that jellyfish and lampreys actually suck water toward themselves to move forward instead of pushing against the water behind them, as had been previously supposed.

    “There could be an opportunity to improve human swimming if the torso could play a greater role in generating low pressure via body undulations, as in the eel.

    “You can see hints of this in the underwater ‘dolphin kick’ swimming stroke, although the action of the legs pushing the water is often more prominent there.

    “The challenge is that humans typically don’t have the same flexibility of motion as the eel, and swimming at the water surface significantly increases the water’s resistance to forward motion.”

    Read The Telegraph and see Wired

    https://youtu.be/L1xIPzSV5A0