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  • CBU Design: Underwater Shoot 2012

    Feb 24, 2013

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    rokur
    in Wow

    CBU Design: Underwater Shoot 2012 from cbudesign on Vimeo.

  • B-Day Swim

    Feb 24, 2013

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    rokur
    in Fun, Open Water

    Southend Rowing Club. Oh my, the entries

    B-Day Swim from Al Jaurique on Vimeo.

  • How To Pick Up Guys in the Swimming Pool (Behind The Scenes/Bloopers)

    Feb 24, 2013

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    rokur
    in Fun

    This looks interesting

    Full video will be released March 10th on LeendaDProductions Channel

  • Hill Family Channel Swim-Sydney Harbour Training Swim

    Feb 24, 2013

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    rokur
    in Open Water, Organization

    Tania, Luke, and Paul Hill are swimming the English Channel while raising funds for the Cancer Council NSW. This is their Sydney Harbour Training Swim, see also hillfamilychannelswim.com

  • Melanie Schlanger calls for Leigh Nugent’s head

    Feb 24, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization

    Read SwimNews

    Olympic 4x100m free relay gold medalist Melanie Schlanger has become the first member of the London 2012 squad to call for head coach Leigh Nugent to fall on his sword. In a week that delivered two damning reports that revealed the extent of bad behaviour, members of the men’s 4x100m free relay team at the heart of the crisis of culture attended a press conference to make a public confession. Now the focus is shifting to dry land. Schlanger tells Wayne Smith at The Australian, that she believed Nugent had changed his story several times when it came to when knew that some of the relay boys had taken Stilnox, a prescription sleeping pill often used by athletes trying to cope with jet lag but banned by the Australian Olympic Committee.

    “I personally don’t trust him to be our head coach,” said Schlanger. “His story changes every day. How can he stand up in front of the team and tell us what we can and can’t do? The situation has become far too volatile for him to remain as head coach. If he was a football coach in any code, his job would have been taken away already. The fact that we are an Olympic sport shouldn’t make us any different.”

    (Video from when they were happy in London)

  • Great Scottish Swim 2013 moved from Strathclyde Loch to Loch Lomond over pollution fears

    Feb 24, 2013

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    rokur
    in Health, Nature, Open Water, Organization

    Read Inside The Games

    Europe’s biggest open-water swimming series, the Great Swim, has moved its event in Scotland to Loch Lomond after the 2012 race at Strathclyde Loch had to be cancelled because of the poor quality of the water and fears competitors would get ill.

  • Chinese official declines $30,000 bet to swim in Ruian river, says it is people not industry that polluted it

    Feb 24, 2013

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    rokur
    in Health, Nature, WTF

    Oh the irony, read the Guardian

    Last week, an eyeglass-retailer executive from Rui’an City, coastal Zhejiang province, offered the city’s environmental protection chief Bao Zhenming more than £20,000 to take a 20-minute dip in a highly polluted local river. The entrepreneur, Jin Zengmin, posted the dare to his microblog beneath pictures showing the waterway overflowing with discarded aluminum cans, polystyrene boxes and paper lanterns. He blamed the river’s industrial demise on dumping by a local rubber shoe factory.

    The Rui’an government responded by saying that most of the river’s pollution was caused by individuals, not factories, and could be attributed to overpopulation. Bao has since declined the offer.

    Via Inhabitat

    (Another river in China, ‘likely to scare off many potential swimmers’)

  • Feelgood freedive in Norway – Gulen

    Feb 24, 2013

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    rokur
    in Freediving, Nature

    “Freediving in Gulen on a crisp, clear and sunny day in february. Kristoffer find`s his first scallops in 20+ meters visibility. What a day!”

    Feelgood freedive in Norway – Gulen from frivannsliv on Vimeo.

  • The Harlem Shake (Speedo Style)

    Feb 24, 2013

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    rokur
    in Fun, Organization

    Behind the scenes at the Speedo video shoot – ‘The Speedo Harlem Shake’.

    http://youtu.be/gzc6ENUKR64

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