Swimmer's Daily

  • The Stavanger Swim Hall in Norway will this weekend 7-9 November 2014 be venue of the 42nd North Sea Swim Meet, featuring the Danish ‘Viking’ team including Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN), Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (FIN), Pál Joensen (FAR), Marco Loughran (GBR), swimmers from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and of course the best Norwegian swimmers also.

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    See northseaswimmeet.com. The live stream is already underway here here on livestream, while start lists, results and live timing can be found here on livetiming

  • Presented by Arena, the exclusive outfitter of the USA Swimming National Team, “Being Frank” is a web series featuring the insights of USA Swimming National Team Director Frank Busch.

  • Campaigners have called on Ofsted to name and shame primary schools that fail to teach pupils to swim after figures showed almost half leave at 11 without being able to complete a length in the pool.

    Under the national curriculum, schools are required to teach pupils to swim confidently over a distance of at least 25 metres, use a range of strokes effectively and know how to safely rescue themselves if they get into difficulties.

    But the latest annual census by the Amateur Swimming Association shows that 45% of 11-year-olds leave for secondary school without being able to swim.

    While a modest improvement on the figure of 51% last year, which the ASA said was a “positive step forward”, it believes more rigorous assessment is required by Ofsted to encourage schools to meet the requirements.

    Read The Guardian

  • Two British tourists have died in Cyprus after one of them got into trouble in the sea and the other dived in to help.

    Police said Harry Bernard, 61, from London, jumped into the water in Paphos to help Christine Sugarhood, 66. After pulling her out and performing CPR, Mr Bernard suffered a suspected heart attack.

    According to local reports, Mrs Sugarhood, from Haywards Heath in West Sussex, may have gone into the water to help her husband Norman, who had got into difficulty in rough seas at about 5pm yesterday.

    Police say Mr Sugarhood made it back to shore, but his wife lost consciousness, at which point Mr Bernard jumped in. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, and took Mrs Sugarhood to a private clinic where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

    Read London Evening Standard

  • The highlight of the aquatic season, the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), is about to start in the magnificent Hamad Aquatic Complex. Featuring a handful of the greatest stars and offering a massive sum in prize money, the showcase in Doha is going to be another hit, watched by hundreds of millions around the world.

    FINA’s decision to move the event from its spring date to December proved to be a wise move. It attracts more top swimmers and it crowns the short-course season, while in the spring when everyone was preparing for the summer long-course events, it was like an unexpected guest at a party.

    Read more here on fina.org

  • In this Swimisode Olympic Gold Medalist Rebecca Soni and Zach Hayden demonstrate fast swimming drills that will improve your swim training program. Coach Gary Hall teaches how to swim breaststroke drills that improve your swimming techniques. Catch all our Swimisodes and more exclusive video @ http://www.theraceclub.com/

  • Designing robots on the micro or nano scale (like, small enough to fit inside your body) is all about simplicity. There just isn’t room for complex motors or actuation systems. There’s barely room for any electronics whatsoever, not to mention batteries, which is why robots that can swim inside your bloodstream or zip around your eyeballs are often driven by magnetic fields. However, magnetic fields drag around anything and everything that happens to be magnetic, so in general, they’re best for controlling just one single microrobot robot at a time. Ideally, you’d want robots that can swim all by themselves, and a robotic micro-scallop, announced today in Nature Communications, could be the answer.

    See IEEE Spectrum

  • A swimmer in Australia pulled off an incredibly dangerous stunt involving the floating carcass of a dead whale and two hungry great white sharks, and lived to tell the tale.

    A 26-year-old man risked his life by jumping into the water and climbing on the whale while two sharks were gorging themselves on its flesh.

    “Out on the boat with the boys and one of my mates thought it’d be pretty funny if I surfed the whale so I just did it,” Harrison said.

    Harrison says it wasn’t until he was on top of the whale that he realized how dangerous what he’d just done was and he says looking back on it it’s something he would never do again.

    See ABC 7

  • Olympic 200m Butterfly Champion Chad le Clos united with arena to bring you this ‘unbelievable’ surf wear collection.

    Listen to the South African as he talks about his passion for surfing and the inspiration behind his new collection.