Swimmer's Daily

  • Four-time Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds and 12-time Paralympic medallist Sascha Kindred are among the star names in the British Para-Swimming named for the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow.

  • Swimming pools have been part of California’s lifestyle for decades, but as the state struggles through its fourth year of a worsening drought, communities are putting bans on filling pools or restricting new pool construction.

    A handful of cities and water districts statewide have implemented restrictions on swimming pools, ranging from moratoriums on swimming pool construction to restrictions on draining and refilling pools. The California Pool and Spa Association, a trade group, has responded to restrictions with a “Let’s Pool Together” campaign that gives consumers tips on being more water-efficient.

    “They’re trying to hammer us with the ‘we’re the culprits’ because we do pools,” said Blaine Enbody, who runs Enbody Custom Pools in Moorpark. “But if homeowners put in (landscaping), they are wasting more water than if they had a pool.”

    Read CNBC

    Photo by liberalmind1012

  • Dreamworks animator and father Daniel Hashimoto has created a new special effects video for his ongoing Action Movie Kid series that shows his three-year-old son James jumping into a hazardous water puddle at a store that teleports him to the magical Disney World theme park. This is continuation of his special effects-filled video “Danger of Wet Floors” from 2014.

    See Laughing Squid

  • Ever had such a big Saturday night that you ended up confusing a lifeboat with a lifeless body?
    Well that was the reality for one drunken 22-year-old, who was found by police in a shipyard just after 4am on Sunday in the western town of Vannes.
    Officers noticed the man kneeling by an inflatable boat and went to investigate, reported French newspaper Le Télégramme.
    “He was underneath a boat, on his knees, trying to resuscitate a rubber dinghy,” local police told Le Télégramme.
    The man told officers that someone was unconscious inside the vessel, but upon closer inspection officers discovered the young man was instead performing CPR on the inflatable boat itself.
    To make matters worse, he had already called out firefighters to the scene – an emergency call that the police promptly cancelled.

    Read The Local

    Photo by Massics

  • For the first time, fans will be able to follow their swimming heroes live on their digital devices with Network Ten’s industry-leading digital platform, tenplay, set to live-stream all the finals action each night of the 2015 Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships.

    Ten Sport’s Mel McLaughlin and Lachy Reid, along with expert commentator Nicole Livingstone, will bring viewers all the action each night from 6.30pm AEST on tenplay and later on ONE, as the nation’s best swimmers secure their spots on the team for the upcoming FINA World Championships.

    “We are excited for Network Ten to bring a new element of digital broadcast to the Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships,” Swimming Australia CEO Mark Anderson said.

    “More and more people are using digital devices to watch sport now and it’s great that no matter where you are in Australia, you can tune in to see the swimmers race for a spot on the Australian Dolphins Swim Team.

    Read Swimming Australia

    Good news for swimming fans! #AusChamps15 will be live-streamed via www.tenplay.com.au! Details here: http://www.swimming.org.au/article.php?group_id=68113&id=2

    Posted by Australian Dolphins Swim Team on Monday, March 30, 2015

  • Anna is 16 and preparing for the baccalaurate. Her biggest dream is to go to the Olympic Games to represent her country, in the discipline that has been her body and soul since childhood, swimming. Every day Anna swims in the Club des Nageurs de Paris she chose to join. As part of the Elite group, coached by Yves, she organizes her time between pool, gym, school and family life. This schedule leaves little time for Anna to live her teenage life.

  • Tom Brady is known for taking a risk or two and sacrificing his body on the football field. Fans love that.

    But when he goes on vacation and decides to jump off a crazy-high cliff just for the thrill of it? That’s a little different.

    Such was the case this weekend as Brady posted a video on his Facebook page. Brady is seen at first contemplating the plunge. Someone (Gisele?) asks at the top of the video, “Are you going to jump, Tom?” […]

    Needless to say, this all turned out well. At least, the dive did.

    The Facebook feedback from his fans was definitely not as positive.

    See Business Insider

  • A game of charades with the Miami crew, featuring Jordan Harrison, Thomas Fraser-Holmes, Dan SMith, Matt Levings, Amy Levings and Grant Hackett.

  • Can you swim directly after eating?

    https://youtu.be/at2bMcJUNrM