Swimmer's Daily

  • Warning, a bit of bad language, as can happen when a shark jumps on you.

    It’s a routine kayak fishing adventure for Isaac Brumaghim, until Chompy the shark shows up.

  • Brazilian girl fishing for piranha using a piece of meat

    http://youtu.be/DyEaX71_XrQ

  • It sounds like something out of a third grader’s standardized testing: “If 39,000 tons of coal ash spilled into the river and they got 3,000 tons out, how many tons are left in the river?”

    We won’t do the math for you, but… well hey, why not?

    36,000 tons. That’s how much coal ash (at minimum) is still in the Dan River after a massive spill from the Duke Energy coal plant in Eden, NC on Feb. 2. The energy giant has since stopped trying to remove it – a decision green-lighted by the EPA – and, this week, the state lifted the recreational water advisory on the Dan. That means if you want to swim, tube, fish, clam, or just hang-out-and-cool-off in the Dan River, according to the State of North Carolina, you’re good to go.

    Officially, anyway.

    Read abc11.com

  • SwimmingWorld Magazine just announced that they will be switching to this site (at the moment in Beta), which is powered by WordPress like the one you are reading right now. So that would be two of my favorite sites switching to WordPress these past few days – The New Yorker (which had us mentioned back in 2012) and SwimmingWorld Magazine.

     

  • You might know him from such films as Snatch, The Italian Job and The Expendables, but back in the day, Jason Statham was a member of Britain’s National Diving Squad for twelve years. Here below competing for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, and being treated rather harshly (but maybe fairly, what do I know) by the TV commentator.

    http://youtu.be/Qsshwg2vulg

    Photo by GabboT

  • Gavin Peacock dives, flips, and completes an epic catch while being launched from a lakeside Russian Swing in Toronto, Canada.

  • A medical student who swam 21 miles across the Channel has told how jelly babies and a determination to raise money for charity got her through the gruelling challenge.

    Marisa Schubert spent 14 hours and 40 minutes making her way through the busy shipping lane between England and France.

    The 21-year-old, of Headington, managed to raise almost £1,100 for the Stroke Association through her efforts.

    She said: “The water can be so unpredictable people told me not to have a target time, but I was just pleased I completed the journey.

    Read The Oxford Times

    Photo by tony.evans

  • Team Wales swimmer Jemma Lowe has taken the plunge into the world of video production ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

    The bronze medallist in Delhi filmed her teammates training in and out of the pool for Glasgow 2014.

    She set the results to a 1990s dance club hit – aping a similar effort to an earlier American swimming team’s video – and posted her film on YouTube.

    Swimmers such as Jazz Carlin and Bath-based Jemma herself feature.

    See BBC

  • When Darian Townsend first came to the United States a decade ago, it was primarily to further his international swimming career.

    Townsend still is an elite swimmer but when he became an American citizen at a naturalization ceremony Thursday in Phoenix, the reasons transcended his sport.

    “I didn’t do this for athletics,” the three-time South African Olympian and 2004 gold medalist said. “I did this for myself as a person and for my future in this country. I did it because I’m proud to be an American. I believe I’m part of the American society, not just the swimming society.”

    See azcentral