The sixth leg of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015- in Tokyo (JPN) – on October 28-29 will be live streamed free of charge on FINAtv.
Wednesday October 28, 2015
Finals: 17:00 (GMT+9)
Thursday October 29, 2015
Finals: 17:00 (GMT+9)
See start lists and results here on omegatiming.com
More details about the competition can be found at: http://bit.ly/1N22aJ2
The 9th annual Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim, Hong Kong, 2015. Stanley to Deep Water Bay, 15km, with relay teams of 5 people, solos, or Yak Swimmers (2 swimmers and a kayak who rotate every 30min through the course)
It’s unclear why this cute seal decided to jump aboard this man’s boat — maybe it was escaping a predator, maybe it was just lonely. Either way this man has made a new best friend. A friend that really likes to cuddle.
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Mack Horton is a rising star – multiple junior world record holder, junior gold medallist, and Team Speedo athlete. Get to know the Aussie swimmer as we grill him on cartoons, sports and his favourite guilty pleasure.
Now for Celebrity Fit, we have Tunisian Olympic Swimmer Sarra Lajnef who will share with us her fitness routine…
Engineers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) have created a robotic bee, or RoboBee, that can fly and swim as well.
The RoboBee has been flying around for some time. However, engineers have strived to modify the paper clip-sized robot in order to make it swim without any damages. In order to create this aerial and aquatic robot, the researchers studied animals that can also fly and swim, such as the puffin. Therefore, they came to the conclusion that in order to make the microbot fly, they needed only to adapt the amount of times the wings flapped in and out of water.
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The Honolulu Fire Dept. reports that a visitor died after being found in waters off Spitting Caves.
The call came in at 2:51 p.m. Saturday of a swimmer in distress. Five males went swimming and one of them was having trouble in the water.
The 21-year-old man from Washington state apparently was underwater for more than a half-hour. Rescue crews were able to retrieve the unresponsive swimmer and took him to the Hawaii Kai boat ramp.
“You know, it’s just, people see these places on social media, and they think they can handle it, they don’t understand the ocean and the currents that we have here,†said Battalion Chief John Bowers.
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A man swimming near the shores of Hawaii has shared a seemingly miraculous story of survival, detailing his fight against a shark that attacked him over the weekend, and the extreme lengths to which he went in order to survive.
Tony Lee was swimming off the coast of Lanikai when he encountered the shark last Saturday. The 44-year-old reportedly felt an unusual tug on his legs, and upon looking backwards, found that both of his lower limbs were in the mouth of a large shark. Lee described the animal as “a big guy,†noting that the predator was attempting to pull him underwater.
Luckily, Lee was wearing goggles at the time of the attack, and he was able to observe what was going on clearly. As ABC13 points out, the swimmer recalls thinking that if he were to continue punching the shark hard enough, the animal would eventually let him go. As the shark attempted to pull him under, Lee quite literally took his escape into his own hands.
Lashing out at the shark, Lee drove his finger into its eyeball. The predator released him, and when Lee came to the surface, he found himself not only treading water, but he was also holding the shark’s eye in his hand.
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The sport of long-distance open-ocean swimming is like no other. RAAM riders take periodic motor home stops for hot showers and meals. Tour de France riders get massaged in hotels between stages. Even Mount Everest climbers stop and rest in tents, sometimes for days. Ms. Nyad’s sport allows none of this. In her four attempts to make the crossing from Cuba to Florida between 2011 and 2013—the narrative thread of her book—she was not permitted to even hang on to the side of the kayaks that trailed her, much less climb aboard the lead catamaran for a break. She had to tread water while eating, drinking, adjusting fogged-over goggles, or donning anti-jellyfish gear to ward off the deadly box jellies whose stings almost killed her and ended her 2011 and 2012 attempts.
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