While shark cage diving, our cage was attacked by an 11.5 foot Great White shark. The round buoy attached to the side of the cage was bent in half. Some of the lining of the outside blue barrier bar was bitten through as well. It was quite the up close and personal experience!
This was a trip I went on during one of my days off from volunteering at Cango Wildlife Ranch. The video was shot with a GoPro Hero 4 wide angle. The shark was even closer than he appears. I apologize for the shakiness….. and my friend’s screaming.
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 5
Russia amasses 23 titles – a record
Russia managed to better its best ever result at the junior Europeans by amassing 23 gold medals, one more than in last year – this is a record in the championship’s history. Their youngsters clinched 8 titles on the last day of the European Games’ swimming competitions.
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 4
Russia: five more titles
The Russians fully dominated the penultimate day of the swimming competitions, winning 5 out of 7 finals. They brought their gold medal tally to 15, capturing almost half of the titles on offer (31) so far. Still, the day’s most outstanding performance belonged to a Brit: Luke Greenbank.
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Andrew Bree to get £25K damages over car crash that ended his London 2012 dreams
The payout to Andrew Bree forms part of a settlement reached in his compensation claim at the High Court in Belfast.
The 200m breaststroke swimmer, from County Down, represented Ireland at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics.
He was in a road accident on Belfast’s Ravenhill Road in October 2010.
Three months after sustaining head, back and leg injuries, he returned to training in the United States, but failed in his efforts to make the qualifying time for a third Olympic Games.
Funding
Mr Bree sued the other motorist’s insurers for the cuts to his funding grants when he failed to qualify.
With liability not contested, the court action was centred on the level of any pay-out to be awarded.
The court heard that in the year up to the accident the swimmer received more than £15,000 from Sport NI.
He had also been allocated 12,000 euros (£8,600) from the Irish Sports Council for each of the three preceding years.
In his evidence, the swimmer said that before the collision he had been confident of making the qualifying time for the London Olympics.
After the accident he said he felt “isolated” and his confidence was “jolted”.
“I spent more energy, more thoughts concentrating on trying to get back to that instead of focusing on the Olympics and my goal for that,” he said.
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Budapest Mayor: aquatics world championship could promote Olympic bid
A successful Budapest World Aquatic Championships in 2017 could help Hungary in its bid to host the 2024 Olympics, Budapest Mayor István Tarlós told public television M1. Tarlós said the expected success of the championships would “obviously†be considered when the decision is made on the venue for the 2024 Olympics just a few weeks later.
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Michael Phelps wanted to play football instead of swim as a teenager
Michael Phelps is one the greatest Olympic athletes in history, but we’ll never know how close he came to being an NFL star because his mom wouldn’t let him.
According to Deborah Phelps, her son envied his buddies and was dying to play football when he was growing up. But mother knows best, or more accurately, mom was playing the odds. Deborah continued to steer her son to the pool, and the rest is Olympic medal history.
“When he told me he wanted to play football, I didn’t say, ‘No, you have to swim,†his mother Debbie Phelps said. “I told him, ‘Only a small percentage of varsity football players get a scholarship to a D-I school and an even smaller percentage make the NFL.’ Then I told him, ‘Think about what you have already accomplished in your sport and where you could possibly go.’ I thought the best way of teaching would be to explain his options and help him make the right choice.â€
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 3
Austria’s golden 15 minutes
Austrian swimmers produced big news on the third day of the swimming competitions at the European Games in Baku by clinching two titles in a span of 15 minutes. Italy also enjoyed a fine afternoon with a gold and three silvers, while the Russians were as outstanding as it was usual in recent years at the junior Europeans, their anthem was played four times on Thursday and as a bonus Maria Astashkina broke the junior WR in the 200m breaststroke, and later again, as member of the triumphant 4x100m medley relay.
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 2
Ten Russian medals in eight finals
The Russian swimmers were on fire in the water at the European Games in Baku (AZE): they collected 10 medals in eight finals, four of them gold. The rest of the titles went to France, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 1
Golden Britain: three titles on the opening day
British swimmers got things going in Baku, on the first day of the swimming competition at the European Games, as they clinched three titles in seven finals. Russia captured two while Germany and Ukraine could also be happy with one gold apiece.