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  • Thai fisherman rescued by Malaysian oil rig worker after seven-hour swim

    May 20, 2014

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    rokur
    in Safety

    See malaymailonline

    A Thai fisherman was rescued by a Malaysian oil rig worker following a seven-hour swim after falling off a boat early on Saturday morning.

    The man fell into the water around 130 kilometres off the coast of Kuala Terengganu in northern Malaysia.

    The victim, identified as Tok Saphon Samechit, 32, is believed to have fallen overboard at about 4am while relieving himself over the side of the boat

    The fisherman then swam for seven hours towards an oil rig after seeing the light in the distance.

  • Tyler Clary focuses on going fast – in the pool and on the track

    May 20, 2014

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Read The Charlotte Observer

    Tyler Clary has dreams of racing on the NASCAR circuit.

    However, before he drops the green flag in that sport, Clary has his sights set on other goals – a world championship and another gold medal.

    So even if he didn’t win in either of the two finals he swam in during the final day of the Charlotte Grand Prix, he said it’s all part of the process to prepare for the important stuff.

    “Winning at these meets is cool and everything, but it really doesn’t mean much,” said Clary, who recently began training with the SwimMAC program. “We’re looking ahead to the world championships and the Olympics (in 2016).”

  • Getting fish drunk doubles its swim-speed

    May 20, 2014

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    rokur
    in Science, WTF

    Read The Times Of India

    A single zebrafish, exposed to alcohol, not only doubles its swim-speed among its “sober” peers, but also increases the speed of the whole group, a new study has found.

    New findings by researchers at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering are helping to unravel the complex interplay between alcohol and social behaviour and may lead to new therapies for mitigating the negative impacts of alcohol use and abuse.

    A team led by Maurizio Porfiri devised an original method that would allow for detailed tracking of a single, alcohol-exposed zebrafish amid a school of “sober” peers.

  • Dad charged with abuse after throwing toddler into pool to teach her a lesson

    May 20, 2014

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    rokur
    in Safety, WTF

    Read for instance news.com.au

    A father has been charged with child abuse after he chucked his two-year-old daughter into a swimming pool to teach her a lesson.

    Corey McCarthy’s actions were picked by a surveillance camera at the pool inPhoenix, Arizona, reported AZFamily.com.

    McCarthy reportedly told police that he threw his daughter Mia into the pool after she had dropped a five-month-old puppy dog in the pool and it drowned.

    He allegedly wanted to teach Mia a lesson about playing around in water.

  • Sandra Völker auctions off Olympic medals to pay off her €100,000 debts

    May 20, 2014

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    rokur
    in Health, History

    Read The Local

    Sandra Völker raised €28,000 for her silver medal for the 100 metres freestyle from the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

    The swimming champion’s two bronze medals from Atlanta were sold for €12,000 and €16,000 each, her swimsuit for €150 and a swimming lesson for €460.

    The 40-year-old said: “It’s a great outcome and naturally I’m relieved. It’s a weight off my shoulders.”

    Völker suffered from depression after her career ended and hit financial trouble over the purchase of a house. The former swimmer hit a low last year when she had to live off unemployment benefit Hartz IV for a few months.

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  • Truth & Transformation: Tyler Hamilton on Drugs in Cycling

    May 20, 2014

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    rokur
    in Doping

    See this TedX Talk

  • GoPro: Pool Party

    May 19, 2014

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    rokur
    in Fun

    Friends and family get together for some summertime pool party fun.

  • Note to Olympic Sailors: Don’t Fall in Rio’s Water

    May 19, 2014

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    rokur
    in Health, Organization

    See NY Times

    Nico Delle Karth, an Austrian sailor preparing for the 2016 Summer Olympics, said it was the foulest place he had ever trained.

    Garbage bobbed on the surface, everything from car tires to floating mattresses. The water reeked so badly of sewage that he was afraid to put his feet in it to launch his boat from shore.

    “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Mr. Delle Karth said of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, where the Olympic sailing and windsurfing events will take place.

  • Paris’ legendary Piscine Molitor reopens after 25 years of abandonment

    May 19, 2014

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    rokur
    in Swimming Pools

    Read  The Guardian

    Built almost a century ago, the art-deco Piscine Molitor in the 16th district of Paris is no ordinary swimming pool. It was here the first bikini was unveiled and the topless sunbathing revolution took off, and it is after this swimming pool that the main character in the 2001 novel Life of Pi was named.

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