Swimmer's Daily

  • The parents of Singapore’s top swimmer Joseph Schooling tells the Straits Times why they sent Joseph for lessons and recounts the day they started taking his swimming seriously.

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    The story of Duke Kahanamoku–the Hawaiian who, in 1912, first drew the world’s collective gaze upon the art of surfing–reads like mythology. Born in Honolulu in 1890, he is credited in over a dozen feature films, surfed the world’s most imposing swells before Californians knew what surfing was, won five Olympic medals in swimming and was elected sheriff of his beloved home county thirteen times.

  • Open-water swimming sensation Charlotte Samuels made history on Saturday by becoming the first person to swim 21 miles across the New York Bight.

    Samuels, 17, began her journey at approximately 7:20 a.m. on Long Island’s Atlantic Beach and finished on the northern edge of Sea Bright, N.J., at 4:50 p.m. Though the Ridgewood teen had estimated that the swim would take 12 to 16 hours, she ended up cruising to a sub-10-hour finish.

    While 10 hours in the water may seem daunting, it was a relatively smooth ride for Samuels, who last year completed a pair of 20-hour swims en route to becoming the world’s youngest Triple Crown swimmer.

    Read nj.com

  • It was Aug 8, the day of the 100m butterfly final, his last race at the Fina World Championships and that was when Joseph Schooling came closest to the perfect swim he had been chasing in his career.

    But the most extraordinary day of his 20 years had begun just like any other day.

    Said Schooling: “I didn’t think much about the upcoming race. I just treated it like another day… it was pretty much normal for me, nothing too extraordinary.”

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  •  A family of bears threw a pool party in the backyard of a New Jersey home earlier this week.

    The mom and five cubs splashed around in the pool, played with rafts and checked out the swing set.

    “I thought they would get a drink or just drink out of it for a minute and then move on, but they pretty much started climbing in,” homeowner Tim Basso told News 12 in New Jersey.

    “My first thought was really, where is the dog and where are the kids?” Basso said.

    See Fox 8

  • Sure, she’s an 18-year-old with three world records and five gold medals from the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia. But there’s a lot more to Washington’s prized swimmer Katie Ledecky.

    She’s also a recent high school grad with a strong network of family and friends… and she’s still waiting on her driver’s license.

    And Ledecky can’t wait to dive into the pool day after day.

    See NBC Washington

  • The American Horror Story actor stars alongside Matthew Goode and Joe Cole in the film about three oil rig workers trapped in a diving bell at the bottom of the ocean. Stunt scenes for the movie also involved donning heavy diving equipment to film in a water tank at Pinewood Studios.

    Danny revealed: “Everything I loved and like about the script I hated and despised about making it. And although my fellow actors in the film were wonderful I prefer to see them in wide open spaces in the future.

    “It was so complicated getting in and out of it, it was this sort of bubble in this tiny little water tank. And then the bigger tank – that was an experience I didn’t want to extend time-wise.

    Read Irish Examiner

  • Swimming With Seals is a short documentary profiling wild swimmer Gill as she swims with seals near her home on the Isle of Skye, and deeply connects with nature. The poetic film details her introduction to wild swimming and the sensations and emotions of this sunset swim filmed in May. Comprised of conversational dialogue and images of the deep blue scenery, this film is part of the WILDER series (wilderdocs.com), profiling people with a strong interaction with nature. Our aim is to inspire you to explore your local environment, and rediscover your more wild life.

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