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  • Speedo Advisors | Improving the strength of your lungs and breath control

    Jan 2, 2014

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    rokur
    in Training

    How to improve the strength of your lungs and breath control whilst swimming.

    Speedo Advisors | Improving the strength of your lungs and breath control by Karen Pickering

  • Behold this sailfish chasing a dredge cam

    Jan 2, 2014

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    rokur
    in Nature, Wow

    Fastest fish on the planet.

    Awesome footage, and a chance to see how it uses its sail.

    sailfish and the dredge from Let It Ride 68 on Vimeo.

    Image courtesy of jidanchaomian, CC BY-SA 2.0

  • Rathmullan New Years Day Swim 2014

    Jan 1, 2014

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    rokur
    in Fun, Open Water

    Featuring an epic choice of background music #babyitscoldoutside

  • Sea warning after Aberystwyth New Year swimmer arrest

    Jan 1, 2014

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    rokur
    in Open Water, Safety

    Read BBC

    Coastguards have warned people against going for a New Year’s Day dip in stormy seas after a man trying to swim in 15ft (4.5m) waves sparked a rescue.

    Aberystwyth RNLI inshore lifeboat was about to launch at around 07:30 GMT on Wednesday when the man struggled back ashore on the town’s South Beach.

    The would-be swimmer, who was wearing a wetsuit, was arrested by police.

    Milford Haven coastguard said: “It may just have been in high spirits but it was not in good judgment.”

    The coastguard spokesman said the alert was sparked by the swimmer’s friend who became concerned minutes after the man went into the water.

    The RNLI crew and Aberystwyth’s coastguard were mobilised and the police and ambulance services called.

    “If he had looked at the news, he would have seen they’ve already lost someone in England this morning.”

    Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

  • Federico “The King Shark” Bocchia wins the Happy New Year photo competition

    Jan 1, 2014

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    rokur
    in Fun

    At least in the swim star category. Classy!

    Buon anno! 2 0 1 4 รฐลธโ€™ยชรฐลธโ€˜โ€˜ #HappyNewYear #today #federicoBocchia #thekingshark pic.twitter.com/L0k6YQxeep

    — Federico Bocchia (@FedericoBocchia) January 1, 2014

    Why “King Shark”? … :-)

  • Giant Rubber Duck Bursts in Taiwan

    Jan 1, 2014

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    rokur
    in Fun

    Breaking! :-P via CNN

    A giant yellow duck on display at Taiwan’s Keelung Port is finding little to be happy about this New Year’s Day.

    The famed 18-meter inflatable art installation, created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, burst and deflated on Tuesday, leaving locals shocked and disappointed.

    Focus Taiwan speculates it might have been a (very hungry?) eagle

    It is still unknown what caused the inflatable sculpture to burst, but a women at the scene told reporters she saw what looked like an eagle strike the Rubber Duck with its talons.

    http://youtu.be/vTXzZzIPPwY

    Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

  • Pรกl Joensen named Faroese sports name of the year 2013

    Dec 31, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Faroe Islands

    Maybe not so surprising; but Pรกl Joensen was named the Faroese sports name of the year 2013, a few moments ago on national TV. Secured with his silver at the Europeans in Herning, and the silver in the 2013 Duel in the Pool.

  • Your money pool is ready, Scrooge McDuck

    Dec 31, 2013

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    rokur
    in Fun, Swimming Pools

    Read KSL

    Imagine a great big pile of 8 million gold coins in a vault โ€” enough gold coins that if the coins were water you would have a nice swimming pool.

    This is not a fantasy. This is something that you could own and wade through at your leisure.

    The โ€œMoney Swimming Poolโ€ is up for sale throughย JamesEdition, a company that handles the sale of large-ticket, luxury items. But the vault isnโ€™t simply going to the highest bidder.

  • Happy New Year

    Dec 31, 2013

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    rokur
    in Faroe Islands, Fun

    Thank you all for an exciting 2013, and best of luck in 2014. Photo is of the big bonfire last year here in Toftir, Faroe Islands. For some (viking?) reason, we like to burn boats :-)

     

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