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Meredith Novack Shatters Swim Record With Two Tiger Sharks Trailing Her

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Nature, Open Water

See Huffington Post

Not only did Meredith Novack become the first woman to swim thealmost 20-mile round trip route between Lanai and Maui on Sunday, but she also shattered the menâ€™s record time by 44 minutes, and did it all with two tiger sharks trailing her.

Novack, a 37-year-old marathon swimmer based on Oahu, swam across the Auau channel from Lanai to Maui, in 11 hours and 1 minute.

Unbeknownst to the swimmer, her crew spotted two tiger shark following her for part of the swim, at least one of which was 15 feet long. The crew did not inform her until after she touched land. According to UPI, Novack was grateful for her ignorance. â€œIâ€™m glad they didnâ€™t tell me,â€ she said.
NZ ex-swim coach asks for home detention

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Organization, Safety

See stuff.co.nz

A former swimming and surf lifesaving coach will find out by next week if he will be freed from jail and receive permanent name suppression.

In August the former coach was jailed for 28 months after admitting three charges of sexual conduct with a 15-year-old female swimmer.

He was given interim suppression so that he could appeal against his name being made public. He has also appealed against the length of the sentence.

Yesterday, in a three-hour hearing in the High Court at New Plymouth, defence lawyer Andrew Laurensen argued that his client should be eligible for home detention.
55-year-old Mexican tries to swim to the U.S. with 50 pounds of pot

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water, WTF

See UT San Diego

A man accused of trying to swim to the U.S. from Mexico with more than 50 pounds of marijuana was arrested, federal officials said Monday.

About 11 p.m. Thursday, Border Patrol agents responded to a report of a man swimming about a mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection statement.

The man, who had a duffle bag, was about 600 yards off the coast.

Agents found seven bundles of wrapped marijuana in the bag. The street value of the drug was estimated at more than $23,000, the CBP said.
CC photo #633: RadosÅ‚aw KawÄ™cki at Debrecen 2012

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

A photo from the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. Poland’s RadosÅ‚aw KawÄ™cki posing with his 200 meter backstroke gold medal, see the result list here.
The Herning 2013 mascot named Harald Bluetooth

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Competition, Fun, Organization

Breaking news off Facebook

Post by EM i svÃ¸mning 2013.
Meet Japan’s badass, elderly freediving women

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Freediving

Via BreitbartÂ – “In Japan, elderly women freedive every day to collect shellfish, a fishing tradition that is struggling to hook the next generation.”

See also Tokyo Times: “Women diving into the ocean to pick abalones are known in Japan as â€œamasâ€ or â€œsea womenâ€. Ladies diving into waters of up to 20 meters deep have become one of Japanâ€™s trademarks, despite the fact that many of the â€˜amasâ€™ have lost their lives throughout the years due to the risky diving that is made just by wearing a simple mask.”

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Becoming Men – Short film about the Grand Canal freestyle diving kids

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water, Wow

“During a long hot summer in inner city Dublin, a man looks back on his own youth. Things haven’t changed much.”

via The Irish Times, thanks John!

Becoming Men from Motherland on Vimeo.
CC photo #632: Them shoes again

Sep 24, 2013

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Fun

Proud teddy bears on top of the medal podium at the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. This after the men’s 200 meter backstroke, result list here.
Training Katie Ledecky for World Championships, by Bruce Gemmell, Part 1 (2013)

Sep 24, 2013

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rokur

in Competition, Organization, Training

“Part 1 of 4: Bruce Gemmell, the head coach at Nation’s Capital Swim Club, talks about training Katie Ledecky for her successful swims at the 2013 world championships. From the 2013 American Swim Coaches Association’s world clinic.”

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3