On July 11th 2013, Susan Moody, Emily Kunze and Mauricio Prieto swam across the Strait of Gibraltar and raised $107.000 for Worldreader. Swim4Good is a platform that uses swimming as a bridge for social good.
SWIM4GOOD – THE GIBRALTAR CROSSING from VÃctor Rins on Vimeo.
One minute observational documentary portrait for Vis 180A. Shot at: UCSD Master’s Swimming, Canyonview Pool.
Morning Masters from Hilary Morefield on Vimeo.
“Men Who Swim is a humorous and poignant look at a group of middle aged men in Stockholm who find unlikely fellowship as members of Sweden’s all-male synchronized swim team. Award-winning filmmaker Dylan Williams’ feature documentary discovers how a weekly escape from the daily grind of work and family responsibilities, evolves into a more serious commitment. By day, they are train conductors and meat buyers, archivists and teachers; but by night they channel Esther Williams and become earnest and passionate exponents of the sport.”
Men Who Swim Trailer from Met Film Production on Vimeo.
“The FINA Swimming World Cup – Dubai 2013 .. Just come and join us on the 17 & 18 October at Hamdan Sports Complex”
The intro video played before each home meet for the 2013-14 Swimming and Diving team.
http://youtu.be/WDdfIOPrVgU
Hilary Phelps, the oldest sister of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, talks with Gerry Sandusky about her family’s swimming heritage, their competitiveness and how she feels before running the half marathon.
Or as described on performancefreediving.com, “Formula 3 Freediving (F3F), the underwater racing concept where Top Gun, meets Formula One, meets Freediving.”
F3F PROMO from Performance Freediving on Vimeo.
A Laguna Hills swimming coach who has already served time behind bars for having sex with one of his 15-year-old students was sentenced today to another 16 months in prison for molesting another teenage girl.
Todd Robert Sousa, 39, who co-owned Swim Venture Inc. of Laguna Hills with his wife, pleaded guilty in June to six counts of lewd acts on a child age 14 or 15 and one count of unlawful sex, all felonies, for assaulting the second 15-year-old girl in September 2009.
See for instance JBAYNEWS, IOL and the National Sea Rescue Institute
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74 year old JBay local Burgert van der Westhuizen was an experienced open water swimmer, who regularly swam along the coastline of Jeffreys Bay.
He was often seen training in the canals of Marina Martinique, mainly in the summer months.
Burgert had the respect of the open water swim community as he was capable of swimming 3 km in under an hour, despite his age and also completed the JBay Swim Challenge in 2012.
This swim saw cold water sap the energy of the swimmers but Burgert was determined to finish and completed the 4 K distance in just under 2 hours.
Ironically, the route of the JBay Swim Challenge went right past the site of yesterday’s shark attack on Burgert.
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Kayaker Terry Olivier, who tried to retrieve the body, said he was out on his sea kayak paddling from the Kabeljou side lower down the Point when he saw the man lying face-down in the water.
He saw the shark, which was “longer than my kayakâ€. He believed it was a great white.
“I tried to retrieve the body but the shark wouldn’t let go. I hit it with my oars, but it kept coming back for more bites,†he said.
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