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  • We Built This City !

  • See WHAS11

    The Lakeside Seahawks swim team has joined forces with a local charity to make a difference in the community.

    Inside the Mary T. Meagher Aquatic Center, there’s much more to the average swim meet.

    Young swimmers are groomed to become champions.

    “I already swam the 200 free and the 200 fly. I still have the 100 breast stroke and the 50 free,” swimmer Olivia Luzzio said.

    They’re not just becoming champions in the pool but champions in the community. The swim team is collecting food for the Dare to Care Food Bank.

    http://youtu.be/w2PAB6anQq4

  • See for instance zooborns.com, back in 2011

    Recently, Houston Zoo keepers gave Baylor and Tupelo a big kiddie pool. Now that Baylor weighs more than 1100 pounds and Tupelo weighs more than 600 pounds, the small, inflatable pools do not last longer than 5 minutes without getting popped. The babies now get a family size pool which is 120 inches in length and holds both calves. It is a lot more durable.

    What a scoop for the pool manufacturer: “This pool has been tested by elephants!” :-)

  • “Don’t just chase your dreams — race them.” Featuring Tyler Clary, Jessica Hardy, Nathan Adrian, Dana Vollmer and Tyler Clary.

    http://youtu.be/s8BqJkwEZDs

  • Swimming Australia has been publishing videos pretty much every day last week, in anticipation of the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials.

    Last week was Canberra, featuring Alicia Coutts and James Roberts among others.

    Monday Memory

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  • See EPIC TV

    Annelie Pompe hates pool training. That’s unfortunate given that her occupation is professional freediving. Not long after summiting the lofty altitudes of Aconcagua in Argentina, she’s back in the pool preparing for another world depth record in freediving. The last time she was in this position she only had two months to prepare and it came back to bite her in a big way – she blacked out while ascending from a very, very deep dive. Fair Warning: It’s not easy to watch her pass out and turn a weird shade of beige at 3:09.

  • levi-gavinRead The New Zealand Herald

    Levi Gavin, 23, was collecting kina and crayfish at Horahora Estuary, 30km east of Whangarei on February 10, when an orca grabbed a catch bag attached to his right arm.

    It dragged him beneath the water for more than 40 seconds before a rope connecting him to the bag came undone and he was able to free himself from the death spiral. Remarkably, he escaped injury. […]

    “As soon as it got me under water, my goggles came off and kept flapping on my face and it just kept going,” he told the Herald on Sunday.

    “I went to go open my eyes but all I could see was little white bubbles so I just closed my eyes and tried not to use my energy because then I use up my breath.

    “I got to my last breath. I couldn’t really think at the time.”

    Featured image courtesy of Winky, CC BY 2.0

  • cyril-baldockSee ninemsn

    Cyril Baldock will soon be the oldest man to swim the English Channel at 70 years of age, 29 years after his first English Channel crossing which he took part in when he was 41.

  • See for instance 9NEWS

    Grant Hackett was barefoot and shirtless when he burst into the foyer of Melbourne’s Crown hotel-casino, searching for his four-year-old son.

    The panicked moment, captured on a mobile phone camera in the early hours of Saturday morning, began when the troubled former Olympian woke to find his son Jagger had gone missing from their hotel room, theHerald Sun reports.

    http://youtu.be/QTmsCRuya1g

    See also Sunrise 7

    http://youtu.be/YSlekJoBtb0