Swimmer's Daily

  • Amazing freedive through the ruins of a sunken city, performed by one of the last free-roaming Sea Nomads left, on the way back from a Project Moken Expedition.

  • A racehorse has survived a two-hour swim, covering 11km, after being scared during a training run on a beach in Brisbane, Australia.

    Rebel Rover was being trained in chest-high water at Sandgate beach when he unseated his rider and headed deeper.

    The five-year-old gelding was picked up by the Brisbane Water Police and a marine rescue unit.

    “He was in about four metres of water and he was swimming quite freely,” said Volunteer Marine Rescue’s Glen Philip.

    Rebel Rover, with a track record of misdemeanours, has only recently made a comeback after being banned for misbehaving in the stalls.

    Trainer Brad Smith told ABC News that horses could swim, but did not normally do so very much.

    “Any other horse, 20 minutes would probably see them out, but this horse – he must have a pretty amazing lung capacity,” he said.

    Read BBC

    https://youtu.be/1_7Pje_hgvQ

  • Radio and TV presenter, Nana Akua, (aka LadyXsize) has signed up to take part in the Swim London 2016 project which aims to give more than 200 adults who don’t currently swim, the opportunity to learn. She is also aiming to be part of a special relay event to be held during the London European Aquatics Championships in May.

  • A swimmer got quite the surprise when he nearly swam into a shark. Sergey Sverdlov caught the encounter on camera.

    https://youtu.be/_qj-twRQUV0

  • A trip around the 2km lap of the elite 10k swim course in Abu Dhabi. Feb 2016.

  • How far can you trust a footprint? Dinosaur footprints are fascinating but there’s a question over how reliable they are at providing information about the palaeobiology of the creatures that made them. While certain prints have been used as evidence that dinosaurs could swim, new research now suggests that the picture is not so clear.

    Read Laboratory Equipment

    Photo by James St. John

  • When Katie Ledecky gets ready to swim, people stop what they are doing.

    The clock becomes a central player in the event as people monitor it to see where she’s at in relation to her best time — which is a world record in most cases.

    The noise builds palpably from the start of the race, to the high-pitched shrill you’d usually hear only with two outs in the ninth at a baseball game or a crowd waiting for the final encore of a legendary band on a farewell tour.

    But the only thing Katie Ledecky can relate to in the latter metaphor is the rhythm. It’s what gets her through the race, keeps her focused, and makes her stay within herself while setting the world ablaze in her signature events.

    Read USA Swimming

  • Iceland is doing everything it can to convince tourists to visit.

    Icelandair offered free Icelandic “stopover buddies” to give travelers a local experience, and now the official tourism board has created an entire curriculum to teach foreigners how to fit in.

    The first lesson: How not to be awkward at the public spa. Gudmundur, the head of spa etiquette, provides a somewhat crude crash course on the topic in one of several videos available through Iceland Academy.

    See Mashable

  • Alvin Brooks explains what we can learn from such a pivotal point in KC’s history.