Swimmer's Daily

  • Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte reportedly celebrated his birthday among male strippers while in Las Vegas.

    The American sportsman is believed to have been having dinner at the Andiamo Steakhouse inside the D Casino Hotel in Sin City this week.

    According to TMZ, Lochte was dragged next door to where male strippers were performing to receive a birthday song, as well as a cake, which bore icing-filled Olympic rings.

    During the celebrations, the crowd urged Lochte to take off his shirt and he happily did so before taking a bite out of his cake.

    See SportsMole and TMZ

  • A man who was hospitalized after nearly drowning in the 45th annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim event has died.

    Race director Kaia Hedlund tells KHON a lifeguard spotted the 49-year-old unresponsive in the water at Kaimana Beach just before 10 a.m. Monday. He was brought back to shore where CPR was administered until paramedics arrived.

    Hedlund says it’s the first death in the race’s history.

    About an hour later, a 50-year-old man collapsed near the race and was hospitalized in critical condition.

    Race officials say the man wasn’t a swimmer but was assisted by private lifeguards hired for the event.

    See SFGate and KHON2

  • A teenage boy was killed and another boy was injured by lightning strikes in Pennsylvania on Sunday night, according to officials. The boys were swimming with a third boy in a creek in Lancaster County when they were struck, according to LancasterOnline. The boys were transferred to the hospital, but one did not survive.

    Source NBC, September 1st 2014

  • On September 12, 2014, the first ever 4K video captured underwater by a smartphone will be broadcast to more than half-a-million viewers live, thanks to HDBaseT technology. The operation will involve more than 200 divers, instructors, professional photographers and production crew, for a 20-m dive along a shipwreck in the Red Sea, Eilat, Israel. With the help of HDBaseT, the unique diving event will be broadcast live on YouTube and potentially allow millions of viewers around the world to take part of it, and as such set a new Guinness World Record of the “Most Viewers of a Live Shipwreck Dive.”

    The dive will take place during the 10th anniversary celebrations of the annual “Eilat Red Sea International Underwater Photo Competition.” The dive will be photographed by two high-definition Panasonic cameras (and distributed by Satlink), and also by a 4K-enabled smartphone. To deliver the live feed from the smartphone to the surface, an HDBaseT transmitter will be connected to a receiver over a simple LAN cable to be uploaded live on YouTube. No other solution in the market today can transmit 4K video transmissions over the long distances required for underwater broadcasting.

    The YouTube broadcasting is essential to break the record of the “Most Viewers of a Live Shipwreck Dive,” as there are no limits on the concomitant number of viewers. Anyone with a computer or smartphone connected to the Internet will be able to experience this dive.

    To be part of this historical moment, log into www.eilatredsea.com on September 12th, at 9:30 am GMT (4:30 am EST, 1:30 am PST, 7:30 pm Sydney NSW.) Preparations will start 30 minutes beforehand.

    Read BusinessWire

  • A 17-year-old Norwegian swimmer is gaining international fame for an online video depicting him solving three Rubik’s cubes underwater in a single breath.

    Marius Solaat Rodland, a professional swimmer who placed 14th at the 50 meter fly event of the 2014 European Junior Championship, is being hailed as a champion of another sort for completing the “Underwater Rubik’s Cubes Challenge.”

    See UPI

  • Screw juicing or making kale smoothies, here’s the next big trend in what to drink: turning fruit and vegetables into juice with underwater shockwaves. The outside of the vegetable look the same after the explosion but the inside has turned into juice. Just stick a straw in and enjoy.

    It’s a stunt ad for Japanese food company Kagome so some bits in the video are probably exaggerated or faked or both but it’s still fun as heck to imagine sticking a straw in an onion to enjoy some delicious? refreshing? gross? onion juice.

    See Gizmodo

    http://youtu.be/VWZF-XMWiRM

  • The ice-bucket challenge that started with an aim to spread awareness about ALS – a neurodegenerative disease – is now being used as a marketing shot for Samsung to boast the Galaxy S5′s water-resistant capabilities.

    In its latest dig at its rivals, Samsung has posted a video of the Galaxy S5 taking the ice-bucket challenge and then challenging the iPhone 5s, HTC One M8 and Nokia Lumia 930 to do the same. It’s not surprising that Samsung has chosen to nominate only those phones that are not water-resistant, as there’s no mention of Sony’s Z series smartphones that are also one of Samsung’s competitors.

    See Firstpost

  • Sharks are nine times more likely to kill men than women, new research from Australia shows.

    Men are targeted in 84 per cent of all unprovoked shark attacks, and make up 89 per cent of all shark bite fatalities – which means that women are statistically more likely to survive a shark attack.

    The numbers are from a study out of Bond University in Queensland to be published in the international journal Coastal Management this week.

    Report author associate professor Daryl McPhee told the Telegraph the results were so surprising that he had to double-check them.

    “Potentially men spend more time in the water, and are more risk-prone,” he suggested.

    Read The Telegraph

  • The second edition of the FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships will take place from September 5-7, 2014 in Balatonfured (HUN) with the presence of 153 athletes from 30 countries. Divided in two age groups (14-16 years and 17-18 years), boys and girls will take the plunge in races of 5km for the youth category and 7.5km for the junior group. Moreover, a 3km Team Event composed of three swimmers is also organised for both age categories.

    Post by FINA.
    The Lake Balaton is the biggest in central Europe and will also host the open water events during the 2021 FINA World Championships, to be staged in Budapest. Its waters offer optimal conditions for this discipline and the entire region is one of the most famous holiday resorts in Hungary. The schedule of the three-day Championships will be as follows: September 5, 2014 10h00: Junior Boys – 7.5km 12h30: Youth Girls – 5km September 6, 2014 10h00: Junior Girls – 7.5km 12h30: Youth Boys – 5km September 7, 2014 10h00: Junior Team event – 3km 12h00: Youth Team event – 3km The first edition of the FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships took place in Welland (CAN) in August 2012. For this première, Germany's swimmers earned four out of the six gold medals at stake, and took another silver and bronze medal. The remaining two titles went to China and South Africa. For the 2014 edition in Lake Balaton, all the events of the Championships will be streamed live on the FINA website.
    See FINA Hotlinks - Event Guide - Start Lists - TV Live Streaming - Results Photo by brewbooks