Swimmer's Daily

  • “Ryan Lochte takes his Olympic Gold Medals to the Today Show, Access Hollywood, Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight.”

    (Paparazzi alert)

    http://youtu.be/09PnOfdFgqk

  • “Have a question for James? Join the Arena Swim Chat with the Australian sprinter!”

  • The women’s 50 meter breaststroke podium at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte gold in a new championships record of 29.44, Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson silver in 29.67 and Australia’s Sarah Katsoulis bronze in 29.94. See the result list here

    CC photo #628: Women's 50 breast podium at Istanbul 2012

  • carlzon-jakobssonExpressen has this video now where Cathrin Levander (Carlzon) and also hero Tobias Jakobsson explain how they saved that little boy from drowning, who yesterday went into a river in Uppsala, Sweden, fastened to his baby carriage, as reported by simma.nu/se and then reported here and on SwimmingWorld Magazine. See also Metro, UNT and SvD. Video and sources is all in Swedish, but I’ll work on that, see below. The little boy is fortunately OK, they say, only suffering from minor injuries.

    I will try to make a complete transcript later tonight, but short story is that Jakobsson arrived on the scene first, and saw a man lying fully dressed in the river. He jumped in, only to realize that the man wasn’t the one in trouble, but searching after his son who was somewhere in the depths below.

    Jakobsson dove down three times but couldn’t find the boy in the murky waters, before Levander came by and jumped in also, and happened to find the carriage with her feet. They didn’t even realize that they had found the boy, as they didn’t know he was in the baby carriage, but thought they had found a bicycle or something. But then they felt the boy also, who was secured to the carriage, and realized what they were looking for.

    They struggled but got the carriage and boy up and out of the water, Levander performing a bit of CPR on the way to the shore, where her police colleague Kenneth Larsson and Levander and an anesthetist who just happened to walk by also took turns performing CPR, until the ambulance arrived. During the CPR the kid started moving his arms but was still struggling when the paramedics arrived.

    The reporter says at the end in the video that the boy has been moved from intensive care and has suffered only minor injuries.

    In this story on UNT, Levander says it was the little boy’s older sister that shocked but calm pointed her towards where she should dive. Jakobsson estimates that it took about 5 minutes before the boy got out of the water, and by then he wasn’t breathing or conscious. Levander’s police colleague Larsson praises Levander and Jakobsson for their work in the water, “A real heroic effort, really impressive. They were so calm and communicative. A school example on how you want it to happen,” he said with a big smile.

  • See NewsShooter and Mashable

    Japanese lens maker Tokina has developed this intriguing “rain dispersion filter” for TV broadcast cameras that keeps the video image raindrop-free with the help of a special hydrophilic coating. “Although from the front it looks like the lens would still be obscured some, the water that is being sprayed onto the filter hardly shows up at all, and then only for a split second,” wrote PetaPixel.

    See also this demo

  • “Kalev Maevali is a 57 year old from Towradgi, New South Wales, Australia. He swims almost everyday all year round because, well, he can. During an interview Kalev talks about how he interacts with the water that surrounds him and what goes through his mind during these weightless times.”

    Waterspace from Dylan Robinson on Vimeo.

  • Tyler McGill shares the 3 things every swimmer has to have to be successful.

    Tyler McGill 3 things every swimmer has to have from Fitter & Faster Swim Tour on Vimeo.

  • “Demonstrating extreme skill, incredible bravery and intense dedication, four-time, Danish World Champion freediver, Stig Ã…vall Severinsen, achieved a new Guinness World Record when he accomplished ‘the longest dive under ice’, on a single breath of air. Authenticating his lifelong passion for water and breath-holding, Stig pushed himself far beyond the limits of any normal human being, swimming whilst wearing a wetsuit, in the freezing waters of Greenland. He submersed himself underneath one metre thick ice, as he covered a distance of 500ft (152.4mtrs) – the equivalent of one and a half football pitches. Stig’s ambitious world-record achievements are documented in Discovery Channel’s fascinating two-part series, The Man Who Doesn’t Breathe, which premieres in Denmark and the UK later this year.”

    The Man Who Doesn’t Breathe (HD) from aceandace on Vimeo.

  • Lifeguards are warning swimmer to watch for stingers at Gold Coast beaches. Kylie Hodge reports.

    http://youtu.be/bomWykXCwds