A snapshot from a video I took this morning, Helgi and Olaf duking it out here down on the pier at Toftir, Faroe Islands, in a tug of war match with a dip in the sea as punishment for the loser.
Here is the video …
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2013 World’s Largest Swim Lesson – Brendan Hansen at Aquatica San Antonio
“Aquatica San Antonio participated in the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson on June 18, 2013. We were joined by special guest Brendan Hansen, six-time Olympic medal winner and former world record holder.”
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CC photo #537: Clothes, boats and kayaks
A scene from the open water swim across Skálafjørður in the Faroe Islands, Sunday 16 June, 2013. Some swimmers using one of the traditional (race) rowing boats as a drying rack, while in the boathouse of Kappróðrarfelagið NSÃ. In the background kayaks and a sign saying (the 10-man rowing boat) “Eysturoyingur No. 1”. Old meets new.
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ABC13 on Water Safety
“For the fifth time this month, someone has drowned in our area. The latest drowning happpened on Wednesday on the Chattooga River in Oconee County. It is a reminder that people need to be vigilant when they are out on the water.”
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Worlds Largest Swim Lessons
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Danish former pro cyclist: Mads Glæsner got off easy
A very interesting discussion here on Danish TV2, retired Danish swimmer Jakob Andkjær, Danish former professional road racing cyclist Niki Østergaard and Danish footballer Thomas Rasmussen and others discussing the two current doping cases in Danish swimming, plus doping and doping prevention in general. It is unfortunately in Danish only, but Niki Sørensen says when asked about the length of Glæsner’s ban, that he got off easy.
– The medals are of course a penalty, but the three months is a three-month vacation so that he can go on training at home in the swimming pool. I feel it is to get off easy. Compared to all other cases I know about people getting caught with minimal amounts of this or that, this is a very small penalty.
– I am a big supporter of punishment for people who break the rules. I will not go into how big the punishment should have been, but he should at least look at the three months and say that it was small price to pay to fix his error. Any cyclist could have made ​​this mistake and gotten two years. You have to remember that, says Niki Sørensen.
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Coast Guard Florida: Injured Swimmer
A pleasure cruise ends in disaster when a swimmer gets tangled in the boat’s propeller! Time is of the essence; can the Coast Guard get to the young victim in time?
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Why not to have a Liquid Nitrogen Pool Party
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German liquor company Jägermeister recently hosted a party in Mexico, during which staffers poured what appeared to be numerous 10-liter dewars of liquid nitrogen into the water, creating a foggy effect. In videos, you can hear partiers “Woo!”-ing… and then, not two minutes later, those not in the water pointing and saying, in Spanish, “Somebody’s fainted. Someone else has fainted.”
Another video shows partiers jumping into the pool to pull limp bodies out of the water.
What happened? Not what others have reported, according to ChemBark, a blog by St. Louis University chemist Paul Bracher. Fox News Latino, the U.K.’s the Daily Mail, KTLA and others have said the nitrogen reacted with chlorine in the pool to form a “toxic cloud.”
“This is almost certainly incorrect,” Bracher wrote. Actually, molecular nitrogen is inert and shouldn’t react with anything in the pool, he said. Instead, the nitrogen displaced oxygen from the air above the pool, “leaving none for the swimmers to breathe.”