Swimmer's Daily

  • Sweden’s Jennie Johansson focusing before the women’s 100 meter breaststroke final at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. She won silver behind Germany’s Sarah Poewe, see the result list here.

    Jennie Johansson before the Debrecen 2012 women's 100 breast

  • wahoo-swim-bandSee story on KSTP.com and wahoosms.com

    It looks like a headband and if a child that’s wearing one gets in trouble- parents and lifeguards will know.

    If a child is submerged for 20 seconds, a light flashes on a tower. If a child is under for 30 seconds or more, an alarm goes off.

    A YMCA in Connecticut paid $30,000 to install the system at their swimming pond. The makers of the technology say it’s especially helpful in murky water.

  • harrison-okenePhysicists intrigued by the story that 29-year-old Harrison Okene survived being trapped in a 4 feet high air pocket for 60 hours underwater off the Nigerian coast, see phys.org and StackExchange

    Okene was trapped in a capsized boat with an air bubble described as only 4 feet high. Normally, a person would need about 1,000 cubic feet of atmospheric air to survive 60 hours. At a depth of 100 feet, this volume would be compressed by a factor of about 4 by the water pressure, so theoretically an air pocket with dimensions 6x6x6 feet would contain enough oxygen to survive for that time.

    It’s not the lack of oxygen but poisoning by the exhaled carbon dioxide that would first kill the person in this situation. However, the physics of interaction of atmospheric gases with water could make a critical difference in this case. Carbon dioxide is very soluble in water (much more so than nitrogen and oxygen), and its absorption by the water could have been the reason why carbon dioxide did not build up to the lethal concentration of about 5 percent.

    “This man was lucky to survive mainly because a sufficiently large amount of trapped air was in his air pocket,” Umansky said. “He was not poisoned by the CO2 after 60 hours spent there, because it stayed at safe levels, and we can speculate that it was helped by the ocean water sealing his enclosure.”

  • 36 Hour Charity Swim – A great feat achieved by these two young gentleman (Rich Hill and Greg Kyd) raising over £4000 for two brilliant charities. 36 hours of swimming whittled down into just 3 minutes of footage that is well worth a watch.

    From the article on avalonleisure.co.uk:

    By the end of their mammoth challenge they had covered a staggering 109.692 meters in the pool, the equivalent to crossing the English Channel over 3 times.

  • A ‘honorable mention’ addition to that post the other day, Five of my favorite Swim Good covers. Misfits Dance Crew interpreting ebrahim‘s cover of Frank Ocean’s song “Swim Good“.

  • :-D

    http://youtu.be/kb0hosxd-ps

    Via Neatorama

  • greg winslowRead MercuryNews and seattlepi

    The University of Utah should have fired former swim coach Greg Winslow by no later than early 2012 for alcohol abuse that was corrosive to the entire team, an independent investigation has found.

    According to the findings revealed Tuesday, during his first two years, Winslow used psychological manipulation against his swimmers to motivate by fear. While some swimmers and assistant coaches considered his style to be creative and innovative, others considered it abusive and cruel with one assistant coaching saying, “Greg was a manipulator, not a motivator.”

    But the review concluded Winslow, 38, did not physically or sexually abuse his swimmers or use racial discrimination in his six-year tenure.

  • See wkyc

    The Centers for Disease Control tested a number of public pools and found that 58 percent were positive for E. coli, bacteria normally found in the human gut and feces.

    Other bacteria that can cause skin rashes was found in 59 percent.

    Pools don’t put up signs warning of water advisories. Lake Erie’s beaches do.

    But the naked eye can’t really tell if there are warnings in place.

  • libby-trickettRead for instance Chicago Tribune, ABC and Bangkok Post

    Libby Trickett, one of Australia’s most decorated swimmers, has retired due to a wrist injury, Swimming Australia said on Wednesday.

    The 28-year-old, who was a member of the women’s gold medal winning 4×100 metres freestyle relay team at last year’s London Olympics, has struggled to return to the pool after suffering the injury eight months ago.

    “There will always be a tinge of sadness to leave the sport that I love, but I have wonderful memories and experiences to draw upon in the future,” Trickett said in a statement.

    “I feel at peace with my decision and most importantly I feel that I am finally ready to take on the next adventure in my life.”

    Image courtesy of Bidgee, CC BY-SA 3.0