Swimmer's Daily

  • Sailor goes for a dip to get cooled off on a hot summer day in Tucson.

    https://youtu.be/t8loH7zKuYo

    She does much better in lesson 2.

    https://youtu.be/rq4tHGRl6hg

  • A Texas 14-year-old who contracted a rare brain-eating disease after swimming in a lake about 70 miles north of Houston has died, according to his family and local media.

    Michael Riley Jr., a junior Olympian and honor student, seemed to have contracted the disease after he went swimming Aug. 13 with his track team, his father, Mike Riley, told KTRK earlier this week.

    “It is with a heavy heart, that we let everyone know that Michael John Riley Jr. lost his battle on this earth but won a victory for his place in the arms of our Lord Jesus Christ,” the family said in a statement on their Facebook page late Saturday.

    See New York Post

    https://youtu.be/IZI-oQT8r-c

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  • Nearly every surfer has experienced the sensation: pinned to the ocean bottom, trying to swim for the surface, desperate for a few quick gasps of air to avoid what might happen if they don’t. It’s a scary moment and therefore, a tough time to stay composed — even the pros say so. According to Kurt Krack, who teaches a surf survival course around breath holding, composure is key. While on the North Shore, six Oakley surfers took part in Krack’s two-day course to better prepare themselves for the type of hold-downs and life-threatening situations that come with competitive surfing and freesurfing waves like Teahupoo, Pipeline, Jaws and many of the other heavy-water breaks around the world.

    https://youtu.be/3KqaJzesyzI

  • In 1968, when he was appointed to the Pinellas-Pasco circuit court bench, Beach was in his late 30s, smoking three packs a day, and couldn’t go up a flight of stairs without breathing hard. He quit cold turkey and went back to the sport he had enjoyed in high school, swimming. That led to his competition in masters swimming events.

    In addition to prolonging his life by improving his physical condition, swimming is good for him mentally, Beach says. “It’s gotten me through some personal problems in my life, like my divorce. I’ve made some of my best law decisions right there in the pool. I’ve got all this time by myself, nobody is interrupting me and I’ll be thinking about some case and decide, ‘That’s what I’m going to do.’ It’s a great influence, emotionally and physically.”

    Read ABA Journal

    Photo by Lee Edwin Coursey

  • Paul Gallihawk, 34, disappeared during the 750-metre open water swim at the start of a triathlon at Leybourne Lakes in Maidstone, Kent, on Saturday.

    His body was found in the lake yesterday by search teams.

    The advertising consultant had set up a Just Giving fundraising page to raise money for Kings College Hospital in South London which had cared for his father last year.

    It had a target of £300 but today had reached more than 40 times the figure as wellwishers donated in his memory.

    Read Evening Standard

  • An Alabama video has gone viral after two fisherman encountered a couple of unexpected guests swimming towards their boat on Saturday.

    Jason Frost and Brandon Key were enjoying a normal day of fishing on the Warrior River when two kittens swam up to their boat.

    Frost and Key pulled the kittens out of the water and into their boat. There is no word yet on whether the kittens have been placed in a home yet.

    See for instance wtnh

  • A La Mesa family has its camera back a day after 10News shared the camera’s contents.

    “My phone was about to die. I looked at it,” said Alycen Haynesworth. “A girlfriend had texted me and said, ‘they found your waterproof camera and you’re on 10News. LOL.’”

    San Diego divers Mark Schulze and Patty Mooney found the waterproof camera 25 feet underwater off La Jolla Cove last week.

    They posted the pictures on Facebook and Craigslist but didn’t get any hits. They shared the pictures with 10News on Monday. Schulze got a call from Haynesworth’s husband that night.

    The family was reunited with hundreds of photos and a few videos just a few hundred yards from where it was found.

    Haynesworth said the pictures, which go as far back as 2011, are irreplaceable.

    See 10News

  • University of Miami Professor Claire Paris broke the USA Women’s National Freediving record in the freediving discipline of Dynamic No Fins with a three minutes and seven seconds swim of 128 meters (420 feet) on a single breath. She was competing with twelve other athletes in the first annual event.

    “I am very happy and grateful with this National Record accomplishment. It is a reflection of my connection with water and the ocean,” said Paris, director of the Physical-Biological Interactions Laboratory at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. “I have dedicated my life to the study and conservation of the ocean and freediving makes me feel one with the water.”

    As an ocean scientist at the UM Rosenstiel School Claire Paris spends days observing the movements of tiny fish larvae in a unique underwater drifting laboratory. She has developed scientific instruments to listen to, and observe these important, but often unnoticed, life forms on the reefs and in the open ocean. Another powerful component to her scientific approach is how she interacts with her research subjects underwater. Paris uses her talent as a certified freediver to minimize any human disturbance to her research subjects.

    The competition took place during the California Cup freediving competition at the Culver City Plunge Community Pool. Dynamic No Fins is performed by swimming without fins in a pool with the athlete holding their breath swimming as far as they can. Distance is measured with the use of a metered tape measure. Paris added three meters / ten feet to the record previously held by Shell Eisenberg of Hawaii.

    See UM Rosenstiel School