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The alarm was raised at about 11.20am yesterday when the 35-year-old went swimming off Dalkey Island and did not return.
A major search operation was launched and the Garda Water Unit pulled the man from the sea south of Sorrento Terrace.
The man was airlifted to Tallaght Hospital, where he later died.
Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell III making his entrance at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Here the men’s 50 freestyle final, he was 4th in 21.03, see the result list here.
So awesome it hurts :-)
Via Breibart
http://youtu.be/dHDseHidt1w
“Nice guy.”
http://youtu.be/L9kBS9YIsdA
From yesterday, go see herning2013.com/
Read The Guardian, via Neatorama
Poised on the starting blocks at the Olympics, the 15 swimmers had good reason to feel apprehensive. But the cause of their nervousness was not the race itself – it was the piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles lurking in the turbid waters below. […]
The swimming events all take place in the murky waters of the Loretoyaco river, a tributary of the Amazon. Waiting for her 100m freestyle race, Lina Castro, a 20-year-old member of the Tikun indigenous community, gazed into the water and considered the hazards. “When the race is about to start I need to be calm and not think about all the things that live in the river,” she said.
(Looks nice, the Rio Loretoyaco, photo courtesy of Dave Lonsdale, CC BY 2.0)
… and scares the bejesus out of him :-)
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Scuba diver Rick Coleman was getting ready to jump into his kayak and head home, when a sea lion pup jumped up and sat himself (or herself) down on his bow.
