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  • If there’s any piece of James Bond’s wardrobe more iconic than his Omega Seamaster or Crockett & Jones shoes, it’s the itsy bitsy blue La Perla swim trunks he wore in Casino Royale. A picture taken of a very buff Craig exiting the ocean in said trunks during filming 10 years ago might just be the best-known shot of him that exists today—a fact that would no doubt piss the actor off more than being asked to pout on command. In a new interview with Time Out New York, the franchise’s moodiest Bond revealed that the image was brought about in the most Daniel Craig way possible.

    “That was a big accident, that particular shot,” he responded when asked how he feels when looking at it. “I was pretending to swim in shallow water, and then I stood up and walked out of the water. I was pretending to be too cool to swim, I thought it looked stupid and stood up, and I walked off—and that was the shot.”

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    Casino Royale Official Trailer (2006) James Bond Movie HD

     

  • The last leg of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015- in Dubai (UAE) – on November 6-7 will be live streamed free of charge on FINAtv.

    Friday November 6, 2015
    Finals: 18:00 (GMT+4)

    Saturday November 7, 2015
    Finals: 18:00 (GMT+4)

    See start lists and results here on omegatiming.com

    More details about the competition can be found at: http://bit.ly/1QfmNm9

    Photo by the_dead_pixel

  • Team Denmark has picked five swimmers to be part of the Danish Olympic team participating in the 2016 Olympics in Rio next summer.

    Jeanette Ottesen, Lotte Friis, Rikke Møller Pedersen, Mie Ø Nielsen and Viktor Bromer were selected today by the Danish athletics association DFI in co-operation with the national swimming association Dansk Svømmeunion.

    “All five swimmers are among the elite and have delivered results at the European Championships and World Championships over the past year,” said Lars Green Bach, the sporting director of Dansk Svømmeunion.

    “We know that the Olympic Games always offer close races, but we also know that the swimmers have the potential to make an impact in the finals.”

    Read The Copenhagen Post

  • Underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen and MIT theoretical physicist Allan Adams might seem unlikely partners, but the pair have just teamed up to produce high-speed videos for the New England Aquarium. If the early results are anything to go by, that’s very good news for ocean research!

    The two met at a dinner party in 2013 and began to talk about high-speed cameras. Ellenbogen was working with the New England Aquarium on promotional content and Adams had recently discovered a collection of high-speed camera equipment at MIT. They soon realized that they could work together to produce unique underwater videos. Their first project together was to capture footage of a cuttlefish hunting. A cuttlefish typically strikes within a fraction of a second, making it practically impossible to see with the naked eye, but Ellenbogen and Adams were able to capture it in slow-motion.

    This impressive video led to the New England Aquarium creating a television ad for the first time since the 1970s. Ellenbogen and Allan ended up working together on an entire ad campaignfor the aquarium. The combination of Ellenbogen’s underwater videography skills and Adams’ knowledge of high-speed cameras led to incredible results and an excellent way to attract visitors to the aquarium. Shortly thereafter, Allan arranged for Ellenbogen to receive a MIT visiting artist fellowship and the two now teach classes together.

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    New England Aquarium Cuttlefish Hunts in Slow Motion

  • Humans have been swimming inefficiently for hundreds of years and could move more quickly in the water by imitating eels and jellyfish, scientists believe.

    Experiments by Stanford University have shown for the first time just how the sea creatures undulate through the water, and it has thrown up some surprises.

    Previously it was thought that jellyfish and lamprey eels and pushed off against the water, like a human swimmer does when kicking.

    But new research has found that their undulating motion actually sucks water towards them creating a current which propels them forward. It saves energy and allows them to glide in elegant pulsating movements through the water.

    The effect is similar to the dolphin kick used by professional swimmers when they first enter the water and suggests that undulating motion is the best technique in the pool.

    “It confounds all our assumptions,” said John Dabiri, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at Stanford University.

    “Our experiments show that jellyfish and lampreys actually suck water toward themselves to move forward instead of pushing against the water behind them, as had been previously supposed.

    “There could be an opportunity to improve human swimming if the torso could play a greater role in generating low pressure via body undulations, as in the eel.

    “You can see hints of this in the underwater ‘dolphin kick’ swimming stroke, although the action of the legs pushing the water is often more prominent there.

    “The challenge is that humans typically don’t have the same flexibility of motion as the eel, and swimming at the water surface significantly increases the water’s resistance to forward motion.”

    Read The Telegraph and see Wired

    https://youtu.be/L1xIPzSV5A0

  • Five time Guinness World Record holder and one of Stan Lee’s Superhumans, Martin Strel, swims for peace, friendship and clean water. #strelworldswim

    Strel’s World Swim begins March 22, 2016.

    https://youtu.be/7-uQRXSmy3Q

  • Paramount and Jerry Bruckheimer have tapped Lily James to portray Gertrude Ederle in a movie about the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

    Bruckheimer is producing and Jeff Nathanson is adapting the script from Glenn Stout’s book “Young Woman and the Sea,” which chronicles Ederle’s 1926 swim across the 21 mile stretch of water at the age of 20. Nathanson will exec produce.

    Ederle took up distance swimming after she had won a gold medal and two bronzes in the 1924 Olympics by swimming 22 miles from Battery Park in New York to Sandy Hook, N.J. Ederle began her Channel crossing at Cap Gris-Nez in France and came ashore at Kingsdown, Kent, 14 hours and 34 minutes later — the fastest time ever for a crossing.

    Ederle was greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York City when she returned home, and played herself in the movie “Swim Girl, Swim.”

    Read Variety

    Photo by Gage Skidmore

  • Wearing a life jacket is important even if you’re a strong a swimmer. Rivers aren’t as smooth like most boaters think. As friends go out on a raft for a fun adventure on the river, they suddenly find themselves in the cold, frigid, rough waters. The raft flips over and tragically, they lose a friend downstream. As a rescue team works into the night to search for the missing rafter, they realize that he may not have been lost had he worn his life jacket.

    Life Jackets Float – Do You?

  • Swim The Suck The Movie 2015 – 6th Annual 10 mile race in the Tennessee River Gorge.

    Swim The Suck The Movie 2015