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Meet the next generation of Aussie swim stars
Mack Horton and other up-and-coming Australian swimmers introducing themselves.
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Underwater Record Gets Examined On ‘Outrageous Acts Of Science’
See Huffington Post
In November 2002, Tim Yarrow set a world record for most time spent underwater. He was underwater for 240 hours, beating out the previous record, 212 hours and 30 minutes, set in 1986 by Michael Stephens of Britain.
Yarrow, was 30 when he dropped into the water for a week and a half. To stay under for so long, he faced many challenges including nothing less than breathing, eating and excreting. He dealt with the food issue by eating a low-fiber diet through a tube, attached a catheter so he could eliminate waste from his body and used scuba gear to maintain oxygen.
The most amazing change to his body was how the water turned Yarrow’s hands into what looked like wrinkled sausages, an effect that happens because of the excessive skin tissue on hands and feet, according to biologist Carin Bondar.
A quick dip in the tub isn’t a problem, but ecologist Ellie Harrison said 10 days in the drink could be potentially dangerous.
“I should think in the long term, if he stayed under water for an extraordinarily long time, the skin would break down,” she said in the show. “It would probably blister and that would leave him really open to infection, particularly in that water, he could get really quite ill.”
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Poor swimmer rescues 5-year old girl from rip current
Natallie Porter can’t swim and got caught in a rip current off Coquina Beach Saturday. Isaac Espinoza dove in to save her.
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CC photo #480: Moniek Nijhuis reacts to winning bronze at Rijeka 2008
The Netherland’s Moniek Nijhuis obviously pretty happy about winning bronze at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships ih Rijeka, Croatia. See the result list here.
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Alicia Coutts: I almost quit swimming
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Australia’s most successful swimmer at the London Olympics, Alicia Coutts, almost quit the sport in the wake of the turbulent Games.
Coutts won five medals in London but says a harsh post-Olympic let-down almost ended her swim career.
“I honestly came back from London and I did go through a bit of a patch where I was like ‘I don’t know if I want to swim any more’,” she told reporters in Adelaide on Wednesday.
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Stilnox video has Australia’s Olympic athletes on edge
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Swimming’s Stilnox scandal has deepened, with the Australian Olympic Committee seeking the damning video evidence that could further condemn the relay men. […]
Less than a week after Swimming Australia handed the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay team fines and suspended sentences for their Stilnox bonding session last year, the AOC is hunting the smoking gun.
It comes in the wake of The Courier-Mail’s revelation last week that a team member captured footage of a relay swimmer using Stilnox on the chartered full Olympic team flight back from London.
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Dolphin Assisted Fishing
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