Swimmer's Daily

  • In this month’s episode we’ll meet up with Brazilian swim star Cesar Cielo Filho. We bring you an update from the FINA Water Polo World League and we head to Austin for the US Grand Prix.

    FINA World Aquatics 2014 episode 3

  • In this month’s episode we meet up with Water Polo superstar Jennifer Pareja, we zoom in on British Water Polo, plus we get all the action from the USA Winter National Championships!

  • In this month’s episode we’ll zoom in on the FINA Synchronized Swimming World Trophy 2013 in Mexico. Being aware in the air; we get an insight into Cliff Diving but first let’s look back at the highlights from the FINA Swimming World Cup.

    FINA World Aquatics 2014 episode 1

  • A National Geographic researcher is startled to see a Greenland shark where none has ever been seen before: off Russia’s Franz Josef Land. An underwater camera captured images of the shark, a species scientists know very little about.

    Unexpected Shark Gives Explorer Shock of His Life | National Geographic

  • Olympian Missy Franklin took time out of her 2014 holiday break from Cal to visit with some inspirational children at Seacrest Studios at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

    Courtesy of USA Swimming on YouTube

  • Anticipation isn’t keeping Jack Bauerle up all night.

    Instead, a shoulder on the mend has the legendary Georgia swim coach in constant search of a comfortable place to rest his head.

    “Sleeping in a recliner doesn’t work real well,” said Bauerle, who had surgery in December to correct “about three things” in his right shoulder.

    Wearing a bulky sling and showing no signs of sleep deprivation, Bauerle was his usual upbeat self while discussing the upcoming competitions with Texas prior to practice on Monday.

    For as much as he tried to deflect the significance — Bauerle kept circling back to the elite challenge the Longhorns present — this weekend’s competitions mean a great deal, for both Bauerle and the program he’s been in charge of for more than three decades.

    Bauerle will lead his squads Saturday for the first time since NCAA violations pushed him off the deck last spring.

    “A lot of people had a lot of different thoughts on what would happen,” senior Maddie Locus said of the wait for Bauerle’s return. “I honestly had no idea.”

    Now — Jack is back.

    See OnlineAthens

    UGA Swim Coach Jack Bauerle talks about return after suspension

  • Diego the cat casually strides into the surf and goes for a swim. He’s calm and collected. His humans, though, are going crazy with delight over the sight of their swimming kitten. “He’s swimming! He’s swimming! He’s swimming in the water!”

    See Neatorama

  • Why do some people struggle more than others to keep off the pounds? Social psychologist Emily Balcetis shows research that addresses one of the many factors: Vision. In an informative talk, she shows how when it comes to fitness, some people quite literally see the world differently from others — and offers a surprisingly simple solution to overcome these differences.

  • “Pitch lakes” represent surface deposits of oil bubbled up from subterranean reservoirs through faults or fissures, often formed when the layers of sedimentary rock that contain hydrocarbons are folded or squashed in tectonic upheaval. Evaporation removes the oil’s lighter elements to produce mucky ponds of asphalt, colloquially called pitch or tar, and technically referred to as bitumen.

    Such seeps are widely scattered across the planet, both on land and in the oceans. One of the world’s biggest is Pitch Lake along Trinidad’s western coast, visited by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1595. A bizarre tract of semisolid asphalt strung with oily channels and pools, the lake — a popular tourist attraction — spans some 100 acres and plunges to 250 feet deep.

    See Atlas Obscura

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