Scientists have strapped cameras onto free-swimming sharks, capturing a shark’s-eye view of their underwater world.
The footage from 14 tiger sharks, six Galapagos sharks, five sandbar sharks, five bluntnose sixgill sharks and a prickly shark is the first to be taken of sharks, by sharks in their natural environment.
One clip from a camera attached to a male sandbar shark show the pursuit of a female; another shows its wearer’s point of view as it meets up with dozens of other sharks in a mixed group — including sandbars, oceanic blacktips and scalloped hammerheads — and swimming together for most of the day.
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2014 Aussie Trials SwimFan Monday Memory – Sydney
Featuring James Magnussen, Daniel Tranter, Jayden Hadler, Jess Ashwood, Matt Abood, Andrew Abood, Te Haumi Maxwell, Marieke D’Cruz
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2014 Orillia Winter Carnival Polar Bear Dip
http://youtu.be/07x5Cu4bjDo
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Legally blind and deaf swimmer providing inspiration at Norwin High School
See CBS Pittsburgh
Attend a swim team practice at Norwin High School, and it could be any school in any town – until one swimmer exits the pool, and you notice the white cane.
“Some people may be surprised that I swim,†says senior swimmer Hunter McGowan, “but I swim anyhow.â€
The surprise comes from the fact that Hunter is both legally blind and legally deaf.
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2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Melbourne
Another week of awesome videos from Swimming Australia, as lead-up to the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials in Brisbane, Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 April 2014.
Monday Memory
Tuesday Tips
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Olympic Aquatics Centre opens to Londoners
See BBC
Remember when Tom Daley won his Olympic bronze and American swimmer Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympian of all time? All these memories and more took place under the curved roof of the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park. Eighteen months after the Paralympics the building opens to the public. Jason Rosam went to have a look at the transformation of the centre for BBC London 94.9.
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Andrea Chelkowski’s 15km swim raises funds for local Coastcare group
Read Herald Sun and everyday heroA nurse and mother of two from Park Beach has completed a gruelling ocean swim to raise money for the community group that cares for the coastline she calls home.
Andrea Chelkowski, 35, took four hours to swim from Dodges Ferry to Lauderdale yesterday. […]
“I grew up at Lauderdale and have spent so much time in the water surfing, fishing and sailing with my Dad. I always thought of swimming across the bay, so it was great to do it as a fundraiser,†Mrs Chelkowski said
There are these awesome kids on YouTube having their say about the swim
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Ryan Lochte says he swam too soon after injury
Read The Daytona Beach News-Journal“I got back in the water faster that what was expected,†said Lochte, who swam in two events at Orlando. “The doctors still say that I should be more careful, and I said, ‘Ahh, I don’t want to listen to them, I want to get back in the water.’ It started feeling fine. Then when I raced in Orlando, I don’t know, something happened, something was wrong in my knee and it hurt, so I knew I pushed it too hard.
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Dr. Geri Richmond: Surf, Sink or Swim
Although the special properties of water have been valued and appreciated for centuries, as scientists we continue to be perplexed by the molecular make-up of water in all its forms. Equally perplexing is the surface of water, a surface that is involved in some of most important reactions in our atmosphere, a surface that can sculpt the landscape as it flows past rocks and soils, a surface that can break down the strongest of metals, and a surface across which essential nutrients and ions are constantly exchanged in life-sustaining processes in our bodies.