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FINA World Championships Highlights
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FINA World Championships Organisation
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The Harlem Shake (Lincoln College Swim Team Style)
“Lincoln College Swim team 2013 Harlem Shake. LC LC!”
(intro-dancer is *awesome*, btw)
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The Harlem Shake (Carthage College Style)
“Carthage College Mens and Womens swim team doing the Harlem Shake.”
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CC photo #409: The Istanbul 2012 men’s 1500 freestyle medal podium
The men’s 1500 meter freestyle medal podium at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Denmark’s Mads Glæsner world champion in 14:30.01, Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri silver in 14:31.13 and Faroe Islands’s Pál Joensen bronze in 14:36.93. See the result list here.
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Michael Phelps Career
“Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is a retired American swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (18, double the second highest record holders), Olympic gold medals in individual events (11), and Olympic medals in individual events for a male (13). In winning eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps took the record for the most first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. Five of those victories were in individual events, tying the single Games record. In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four golds and two silver medals, making him the most successful athlete of the Games for the third Olympics in a row.”
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The Harlem Shake (UGA Men’s Swim & Dive Style)
“UGA Men’s Swim and Dive Harlem Shake. SKOOO”
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Underwater tourist photos help scientists track individual whale sharks
Wow, posting your underwater holiday photos online could help conservationists track the movements of whale sharks, a new study finds, led by a researcher from Imperial College London. They compared results using tourist images with results based on surveys by marine researchers specifically aiming to track the sharks, and found that individual whale sharks could be successfully identified in 85 per cent of cases, surprisingly close to the 100 per cent identification possible in photographs taken by researchers. Read Wired
Speaking about the results, Davies said: “Globally, this outcome provides strong support for the scientific use of photographs taken by tourists for whale shark monitoring. Hopefully, this will give whale shark research around the world confidence in using this source of free data. In the Maldives in particular, where whale shark tourism is well established and very useful for collecting data from throughout the archipelago, our results suggest that whale shark monitoring effort should be focused on collecting tourist photographs.â€
Image courtesy of Henning Lewecke, CC BY-SA 2.0