Read the blog of dolphin scientist guy Justin Gregg
After rebooting the Soviet Union’s marine mammal programjust last year with the goal of teaching dolphins to find underwater mines and kill enemy divers, three of the Ukrainian military’s new recruits have gone AWOL.
It might not be such a big deal except that these dolphins have been trained to “attack enemy combat swimmers using special knives or pistols fixed to their heads.â€
“At the end of a night dive I had quite the surprise when a very cute baby sea lion jumped on my kayak. Was the sea lion pup escaping a shark in the area? Was he cold? Or was he just playing around? In any case,it looks like I now have a new kayaking buddy. Filmed with GoPro HD Hero2 and GoPro dive housing.”
American swimming legend Michael Phelps, the winner of 19 Olympic gold medals, joined children from the Rocinha favela in the pool in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
“Badem”, mascot of the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. They are endangered, the monk seals, only 600 or thereabout left.
See laureus.com
Legendary swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time with a career total of 22 medals, including 18 gold medals, eight of which he won in one Olympiad in Beijing, was presented with a new Award – the Laureus Academy Exceptional Achievement Award.
Supersuit technology put to good use, I guess – Body shaping swimwear from Speedo Sculpture
Re-airing throughout March, see for instance Sho Sports
In his first interview since the 800-ft. dive that caused brain damage and ended his career, Free Diver Herbert Nitsch Reflects on his injuries and the dive that turned out to be his limit. Herbert Nitsch, known as “The Deepest Man on Earth†for the 32 world records in free diving he held, tried for yet another and nearly died in the process. After months of rehabilitation, Nitsch tells Bob Simon in the diver’s first interview since the career-ending dive that he knew then he shouldn’t have dived that day. Nitsch’s story, including the first footage of his fateful dive, will be told on this episode of 60 Minutes Sports.
“This short movie has been shot in the Maldives, North Male Atoll, during the Manta Rays Season. Since this trip freediving has became a true passion, the sensation of going down without bottle, just lungs, and going a bit deeper everyday to extend my personal frontier, it’s an amazing feeling. In this movie I was about 15 meters deep.”
Single Breath from milo thoretton on Vimeo.
Read for instance Ecorazzi
We’ve seen bunnies in wheelchairs, sea turtles with prosthetic limbs, but as far as the Phoenix Herpetological Society knows, this is the very first alligator learning to swim with a prosthetic tail.
