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  • Stockholm’s largest swimming centre, Eriksdalsbadet is making waves after deciding to introduce segregated jacuzzis, following reports of groping beneath the bubbles.

    Sweden may have an international reputation for promoting gender equality, but the Eriksdalsbadet complex – home to one of the most popular public swimming pools in Sweden – is introducing segregated hot tubs for the first time.

    The move follows reports by increasing numbers of women, who claim they have been groped by men as they relax in the giant bubble baths.

    “We’ve got a lot of requests, especially from women, to split the jacuzzis,” Sara Franzén Shilwan, the head of unit at Eriksdalsbadet told The Local, but refused to reveal the number of complaints made.

    However she confirmed that there had been a noticeable rise in November and December last year.

    Read The Local

  • Until a few years ago, not many people paid much attention to the extreme sport of free diving. That’s where a swimmer packs as much air as they can into their lungs and plunges as deep as they possibly can into the sea – no oxygen tank, just that one breath to keep them going. But in November of 2013, a tragedy brought free diving into the spotlight when Nicholas Mevoli from Brooklyn died while attempting a record-breaking plunge in the Bahamas. Writer Adam Skolnick was there to cover that event, and Mevoli’s death brought him inside this sport in a way he never expected. His new book is called “One Breath: Freediving, Death, And The Quest To Shatter Human Limits.”

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  • Follow Per when he practises with SK Neptun Masters. Per used to swim, but has not practiced swimming actively in several years.

    With English subtitles

    https://youtu.be/kU5_Lqoj1gM

    Swimmer’s Daily note: SK Neptun Masters train in Eriksdalsbadet in Stockholm, Sweden. I got to try their morning practice back in 2014, and highly recommend it.

  • About 100 people were knocked off an ocean rock platform they were standing on when a massive wave hit on Saturday. The event, which was captured on a GoPro by Instagram user Jakee T, occurred at the Figure Eight Pools in the Royal National Park in Sydney.

    See Mashable

    https://youtu.be/AkXpTTNE81g

    https://youtu.be/4sfgvfKlGf8

  • Serbia: triumphant start in front of 11,000 fans

    Water polo was lifted to a new level on Sunday: the last game of the opening day of the 32nd European Championships showed this sport from a different perspective as 11,000 fans filled the stands of the Kombank Arena while Serbia and Croatia produced a great game. This was the highest ever attendance in the history of the Europeans.

    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 LEN Athletes of The Year 2015 Paolo Barelli LEN President Dusko Pijetlovic (SRB) Roberta Bianconi (ITA) Vanja Udovicic Serbian Minister of Sport Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day01 10-01-2016 Photo G.Scala Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Montenego MNE (White) Vs Netherlands NED (Blue) Men 6 RADOVIC Aleksandar MNE 6 LINDHOUT Robin NED Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day01 10-01-2016 Photo G.Scala Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Croatia CRO (White) Vs Serbia SRB (Blue) Men Venue Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day01 10-01-2016 Photo G.Scala Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Croatia CRO (White) Vs Serbia SRB (Blue) Men Venue Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day01 10-01-2016 Photo G.Scala Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 France FRA (White) Vs Malta MLT (Blue) Men 6 ZAMMIT Matthew MLT Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day01 10-01-2016 Photo G.Scala Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Netherlands NED (White) Vs Hungary HUN (Blue) Women 11 KLAASSEN Lieke NED Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day01 10-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Spain ESP (White) Vs Slovakia SVK (Blue) Men 1 KOZMER Lukasi GK SVK Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day01 10-01-2016 Photo P. MesianoInsidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Netherlands NED (White) Vs Hungary HUN (Blue) Women 2 SMIT Yasemin NED Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day01 10-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Russia RUS (White) Vs Turkey TUR (Blue) Women 1 VERKHOGLYADOVA Anastasia GK Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day01 10-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia

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  • The Dominican Republic is full of caves you can swim through if you are brave enough to face the dark waters.

    The caves are part of the El Choco National Park in Cabarete, and a 10-minute walk from the beach.

    Hikers can cliff jump into chilly, cavernous pools, under stalactite-covered cave ceilings that were formed by dripping water over the course of thousands of years.

    For a $2 entrance fee, it’s worth taking a break from the beach for an hour of spelunking.

    See Business Insider

  • The scale of the problem facing the world’s oceans first struck Boyan Slat during a summer holiday to Greece when he was 16.

    Instead of colourful fish in azure waters, his abiding memory of the trip is of plastic debris on beaches and in the waves.

    Now 21, the Dutch entrepreneur is planning to deploy a pilot device off southern Japan that will, if all goes according to plan, gather and capture some of the millions of tons of plastic that is clogging up the world’s oceans.

    And if the small-scale Ocean Cleanup Array can be demonstrated to work off the island of Tsushima from next year, a larger version could be sited halfway between Hawaii and California in 2020 as the most ambitious effort to rid the Pacific of plastic rubbish to date.

    “This is truly a global problem”, Mr Slat told The Telegraph from his organisation’s offices in the Dutch city of Delft.

    “An estimated 8 million tons of plastic enters the world’s oceans every year, which is the equivalent volume of two Empire State Buildings every week”.

    Read The Telegraph

    https://youtu.be/6IjaZ2g-21E