The Harlem Honeys and Bears are a synchronized swim team for seniors 55 years and older. In this short film, Veena Rao captures the “freedom†that comes from being in the water, a freedom that allows these performers to “do all kinds of things that [they] cannot do on land†and stay, as one member says, “92 years young.”
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Team Speedo video ǀ Interview with swimmer Femke Heemskerk
Watch our short video interview with Team Speedo swimmer, Femke Heemskerk, and find out more about the Dutch world record holder. We chat cartoons and sports, and discover where in the world Femke loves to swim the most.
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Interview with Christian Sprenger, Team Speedo athlete
Find out more about Team Speedo’s breaststroke sprint star, Christian Sprenger, as we grill the Aussie swimmer on The Simpsons, his favourite sports away from swimming, and where in the world he loves to swim for pleasure.
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FINA Youtube Live Streaming – FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon SWC – Hong Kong
FINA informs that the last leg of the FINA/HOSA 10km Swimming World Cup 2015 – in Hong Kong (HKG) – on October 17 will be streamed live and free of charge worldwide on the FINAYoutube channel.
The race will start at 9:00 local time (GMT+8)
Start Lists are available on FINA website here
More details about the competition can be found at: http://bit.ly/1MGMef7
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Scientists Get Caught In Terrifying ‘Underwater Avalanche’
Underwater cave diving is a risky business.
Environmental anthropologist Kenny Broad and one of his fellow researchers-cum-explorers know this for a fact after experiencing an “underwater avalanche” — which is when sediment from the walls of the cave collapses in around the divers.
The harrowing experience, which took place in one of the Bahamas’ mysterious blue holes, was captured on video. National Geographic uploaded the footage to YouTube last week.
See Huffpost Science
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A Bathing Suit that Cleans the Ocean
Want to help clean polluted water? It might be as easy as slipping on this bikini.
Mihri and Cengiz Ozkan, professors at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering, along with Ph.D student Daisy Patino and Ph. D graduate Hamed Bay, developed a material named Sponge. The engineer designed it to clean up oil and chemical spills and desalinizing water.
The material, which is created from heated sucrose, has “a highly porous structure that is super hydrophobic, meaning it repels water, but also absorbs harmful contaminants,” a press release explains.
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European Swimming Championships At Wembley (1938)
Titles read: “EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS AT WEMBLEY”.
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15-Year-Old Omaha Native Qualifies For Olympic Swim Trials
“He picks up the technique and makes it look really, really easy”
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Natalie Coughlin – American Swimmer
