Swimmer's Daily

  • This is a small promotional video to undestand better the athlete’s perspectives about masters sport. It was made during the European Masters Games 2015 in Nice, France.

  • Anuar Patjane is a photographer who last year won National Geographic’s photo contest for a picture of a humpback whale and her calf. He relives his encounter swimming with the largest living mammals on earth.

  • To show just what’s possible when you use your iPhone to livestream from a GoPro camera using Periscope, GoPro Thursday livestreamed a dive featuring famed wingsuit flyers / base jumpers Jeb Corliss and Roberta Mancino and some great hammerhead sharks.

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    Photo by bocagrandelasvegas

  • The Guinness World Record for the longest underwater breath-hold has just been shattered – Aleix Segura from Spain held his breath for 24 minutes 3 seconds, after breathing Oxygen as part of his breath-up, on February 28th 2016 at the 17th Mediterranean Dive Show in Barcelona.

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    Video: Aleix Segura breath-holding 23 min 9 sec in February 2016

  • International Olympic Committee officials say about five to 10 refugee athletes are expected to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Ball State swimmer Bradley Ridge knew he was good. He just needed the opportunity to prove it.

    Thanks to his Jewish faith, Ridge recently competed in the Maccabi Games in Santiago, Chile where he not only won gold, but also gained a confidence level that has propelled him to even more success at Ball State.

  • For over 40 years, arena has been developing cutting-edge racing swimwear built on a foundation of in-depth research, technical know-how, and an unyielding commitment to quality. Since 2000, the brand’s top-of-the-range POWERSKIN family of suits has consistently set the benchmark for high performance swimwear for all levels of swimmer, from the Olympic champion to the beginner. Now in 2016 the game is changed once again with the POWERSKIN Carbon-Ultra, whose revolutionary internal structure optimizes the swimmer’s physiology.

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  • The first pool dedicated specifically to teaching adults to swim is slated to open in Sarasota, Florida May 1, 2016.

    Forty-six percent of American adults fit the bill.

    Most adults who can’t swim are afraid in water. An afraid-in-water adult is one who cannot rest peacefully for five minutes in water over his/her head and at least ten feet from any wall or support.

    “This will be the place where adults can reliably and quickly overcome their fear of water and learn to swim,” says M. Ellen Dash, CEO of Miracle Swimming for Adults, Inc. (MSA), a Sarasota swim school for adults since 1983, which will open and operate the pool. “Quickly” means two weeks. Five- and 12-day classes are available for travelers. All students go at their own pace and all succeed due to a propriety system based on universal laws of learning that have not been observed in use elsewhere.

    MSA has launched a Kickstarter project to raise funds to resurface the pool so that it can open.

    Visit www.miracleswimming.com.

  • A Florida man searching for a stray golf ball found something much larger at the bottom of his swimming pool — a 9-foot alligator.

    Craig Lear, 38, who lives adjacent to a golf course in Lakeland, assumed that the bubbles he saw in his pool were from a ball that landed in the water, his wife told ABC News.

    When he got closer, however, he spotted the large gator at the bottom of the pool, Laura Lear said.

    “I hear stories about gators, but never at my house,” she told ABC News.

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    The nine-foot alligator lives in a nearby pool. It crawled 70 yards to the home, where it tore a hole in the pool’s screen enclosure.

    “It was perfect. This is how he cut it,” said Lear, talking about how the alligator made its way through the screen.

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