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Dozens rescued by coastguards after Southwold Pier-to-Pub Swim goes wrong

May 27, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water, Organization, Safety, WTF

Read for instance the BBC, the Mirror, MailOnline, SkyÂ and EDP24

A major search and rescue operation was launched yesterday after dozens of people taking part in the Southwold Pier-to-Pub Swim had to be pulled from the sea.

About 200 people were taking part in the event, which involved swimming around the town’s pier before heading to a pub, when more than 130 got into difficulty because of the tide and choppy conditions, initial reports at 1pm saying that 90 were missing. The RNLI lifeboats and lifeguards rescued 85 of them from the sea, the last one first located at 5.30pm, and two of them transferred to the local hospital with suspected hypothermia.

An apology from the organizers can be seen here onÂ activeoutdoorsport.co.uk

Here is video from the RNLI search
PÃ¡l Joensen on training camp in Australia

May 27, 2013

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rokur

in Faroe Islands, Training

Sigh, while we local residents of the Faroe Islands are suffering from the seasonal rain (starting in May and ending in April), PÃ¡l Joensen has travelled to […grumble…] Gold Coast, Queensland, to train under the legendary Denis Cotterell, coach of Grant Hackett and now Jordan Harrison. PÃ¡l comments from Australia: “It is going very well, here. We are training extremely hard, almost every session, and working a lot on technique.”

To put it in perspective, here are my kids having fun last Saturday, balancing on a slippery PVC tube a few meters up during our annual ‘summer’ trip with the IT company I work at. You have to respect PÃ¡l for being able to adapt from this, to seemingly enjoy posing outdoors in budgie smugglers in subtropical Australia :-P
Croatia Underwater Swimming Technique

May 26, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water, Organization, Technique

This is a collection of video clips from 2012 swimming holiday season run by Strel Swimming Adventures, local tour operator. Video clips are used to do video analysis and improve swimming technique in open water.
Blind toddler inspires others to swim

May 26, 2013

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by

rokur

in Safety, Wow

Colton Meyer has learned to navigate the water with his mom’s help
CC photo #512: The start of the Rhodes 2007 Island Games triathlon

May 26, 2013

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by

rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Faroe Islands, Open Water

The start of the men’s triathlon at the Natwest 2007 Island Games in Rhodes, Greece. I was coach of the Faroese triathlon squad back then. The crooked but otherwise really nice outdoor swimming pool can be seen in the background.
ISHOF induction video and acceptance speech of Gary Hall, Jr

May 25, 2013

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rokur

in Competition, Health, History

The induction video and acceptance speech of Gary Hall, Jr upon his induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame on May 11, 2013 as an honor swimmer
CC photo #511: The 2013 SSF General Meeting

May 25, 2013

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by

rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Faroe Islands, Organization

Just a photo from the Faroese Swimming Association‘s annual general meeting, in TÃ³rshavn today, Saturday 25th, 2013.
Park Tae-hwan not on Korea’s 2013 World Champs roster

May 25, 2013

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by

rokur

in Competition

Read The Chosun Ilbo

The Korea Swimming Federation has named 19 swimmers to represent the country at the World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain in July, but Beijing Olympics gold medalist Park Tae-hwan was excluded from the list.

The federation said Park had not trained sufficiently to justify his inclusion.

Photo courtesy of LGEPR, CC BY 2.0
TED-Ed Explains Why Fingers Get Pruney When Wet

May 24, 2013

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by

rokur

in Fun, Science

Via Geekosystem

As far as mysteries of the universe go, â€œWhy do our fingers get pruney when theyâ€™re wet?â€ isnâ€™t exactly the most pressing. It is, however, among the most persistent and just plain weird.