“This is Walter, a sea otter with a hearty appetite. He was rescued in Tofino, British Columbia in October 2013 after being shot. Walter currently resides at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre where he is undergoing rehabilitation.
Here, he’s getting fed clams and shrimp. They also eat mussels, chitons, snails, prawns, crabs, abalone, sea urchins, squid, sea star arms and sometimes fishes.”
Mmmmhhh!
See SwimmingWorld and rfen.es
According to the Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN), Mireia Belmonte Garcia has smashed the short course world record in the women’s 1500-meter freestyle.
Belmote Garcia raced to a 15:26.95 to demolish Lotte Friis’ world record of 15:28.65. That gives Belmonte Garcia a sweep of the 400-800-1500 freestyle world records currently.
Targeted for Russian tourists. I remember that swimming pool well, from back in 2009 when we visited kinesiology professor Rein Haljand in Tallinn for a swim analysis of Pál Joensen. Coach hit that black water slide so hard, that water sprayed over the side and landed right next to a woman swimming breaststroke below :-P
Americans celebrating their victory in the men’s 4×200 meter freestyle at the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Last man in their relay is Ricky Berens, now retired. See the result list here
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When little Anghelina Bulman heard about the devastation Typhoon Haiyan has caused to millions of people in the Philippines, the country of her mother’s birth, she was determined to help.
So the five-year-old, who lives in Fakenham, is to attempt to swim 250 metres to help three Filipino families try to rebuild their lives.
She wants to raise at least £600 to help her aunt’s partner’s family, whose home has been destroyed.
See BBC
Bob Bowman, the man who coached Michael Phelps to 18 Olympic gold medals, says it is too soon to say if the swimmer will return to competition but added that if he does he could win gold at the 2016 Games.
“Sean Conway has become the first man to swim the entire length of Britain! See his exclusive interview with Speedo after completing his epic swimming adventure.”
So you might have seen this video that went viral this week, now at 1.9 million views since the incident Tuesday 26 November.
(Warning, very graphic, as in exploding intestines)
The background story is that 4 sperm whales got stuck near the bridge between our two biggest islands, here in the Faroe Islands, Thursday 21 November.
(Map courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Oona Räisänen (Mysid))
At least two were beached, and one of them hurt so badly that it bled from hitting the bridge fenders, when taken by the always violent current that goes past there and names the area “Við Streymin” (By The Stream).
See this segment from our national broadcasting company Kringvarp Føroya
http://kvf.fo/netvarp/sv/2013/11/22/storhvalirnir-i-sundalagnum
