“Four times a year, Goldfish Swim School holds Safety Week at all locations. While we always stress the importance and teaching of water safety skills here at Goldfish, during these special four weeks, we pull out all the stops! All classes focus on special safety techniques, like the octopus and sea otter floats, treading water, rolling over, and ‘jump, turn and swim to the wall.” For more information, we encourage you to check out our blog post.”
http://youtu.be/KlRpB2xTAdI
“From the BBC programme Faster, Higher, Stronger: Stories of the Olympic Games, a look at some early exponents of the modern freestyle swimming stroke.”
http://youtu.be/FiR62H9B4E4
“Mix in a leg pt day with swimming and a vital skill. After this – finish with 1000-1500m of swimming with fins.”
“Recruits of Fox Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, learn about basic water survival Jan. 6, 2014, at the recruit training pool on Parris Island, S.C. Water survival qualification, which is a graduation requirement, includes swimming 25 meters, treading water for four minutes, jumping into water from a 10-foot tower and shedding heavy equipment while underwater. Recruits wear utility uniforms, including boots, throughout the evaluation.”
http://youtu.be/8uuYDAECrlM
Former Olympic swimmer Mark Foster talks about his new fitness-dance programme Fit Steps, a merge of the London 2012 Olympics and Strictly Come Dancing.
In the first part of this two-part interview, Tom Shields talks about his new life as a postgrad swimmer and why he says he’s more nervous about swimming than when he was in high school or when representing Cal-Berkeley.
In the second part of this two-part interview with Tom Shields, the American record holder relives the experience of the Duel in the Pool
Via GeekoSystem
Last week, we found out that dolphins get high by chewing on puffer fish, and the discovery was caught on hidden camera, but the footage was part of a not-yet-released BBC nature documentary. Today, the BBC finally uploaded a clip of the dolphins passing the puffer (fish) around and being mesmerized by their own reflections. Oh, and it’s narrated by David Tennant.
http://youtu.be/rZ2ZWUYPzE8
Read for instance Mail Online (photos obviously NSFW)
Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world’s largest skinny dip.
Basking in the glow of a warm summer’s day down-under, the 745 nude swimmers swarmed into the water on the coast of Gisborne in northeastern New Zealand. […]
Gisborne took the Guinness World Record for the largest skinny dip last year when 506 swimmers went for a naked dip, but the attempt was overshadowed by a nude horde of 729 on Playa El Playazo beach in Vera, Spain‚ in July.
Video below pretty safe, as they are way out in the waters
http://youtu.be/_rySONh69HA
“Bored in Paradise…. set my GoPro Hero 3 up outside one of the crab holes at a dive resort in Fiji (Maidive). I used the new GoPro app and wifi to sit and wait for the crab to appear and hit record from the building in the background. It all looked great until he disappeared with the camera down his hole.”
