“Seminole Spirit, led by Mark Halvorsen, and Brain Injury Association of Georgia is holding a Swim for Brain Injury during March (30th) Brain Injury Awareness Month from 10-3. We need you to come out and join us AND make a donation so we can help others. Send in a check or go online www.braininjurygeorgia.org – please help. We need you, the survivors, their families and caregivers and veterans need you!”
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Highlights from the British Gas International Swimming Meet 2013
“Here are the highlights from the British Gas International Swimming Meet from Leeds in March 2013 including interviews with Michael Jamieson, Ellie Simmonds and Fran Halsall.” (and Liam Tancock, Jazmin Carlin, Hannah Miley and Ruta Meilutyte)
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The making of a State Swimming champion
“The story of a great junior swimmer working to become a Championship caliber swimmer.”
The making of a State Swimming champion from Show n Tell on Vimeo.
(See CATS)
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Swim With Fire
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Dolphin swim a day keeps blues away
“Of the 600+ kids and adults currently served in the UCP WORK, Inc. Non-Government Funded (NGF) Programs Department, many started participating in our unique programs when they were pre-schoolers. Today, these same kids are now thriving adults who have not let their physical challenges slow them down.”
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Chapman News: Swim Coach Dusenbury Banned For Life
“A former Mission Viejo Nadadores swim coach has been banned for life by swimming’s national governing body after he had an inappropriate relationship with a female teenage swimmer. Daniel Dusenbury, was banned by USA Swimming after officials obtained a DVD filled with explicit details of their long-term sexual relationship. The team’s officials commented that as early as 2006, Dusenbury was involved in a relationship that lasted for more than four years with a 15-year-old swimmer from Aliso Niguel High. Dusenbury has not yet commented on his punishment.”
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How to Capture Audio at an Event
Important stuff at swim meets, because of the background noise and loud start signals etc. Zoom H1 it will be for me, or something similar :-)
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Half-ton sea lion takes a stroll down busy Brazilian shopping street
Read for instance WorldCrunch via Arbroath
It was around 5:20 p.m. Saturday evening when onlookers watched as the sea creature reached the main thoroughfare of Atlântica Avenue in Balneário Camboriú, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina,Folha de S. Paulo reports.
According to local police, the animal used the cross walk at the busy intersection of Atlântica Avenue. (Sea lions tend to weigh some 300 kilograms (660 lbs))
With the help of firefighters and police tossing water to keep it wet, the sea lion made it back safely into the southern Atlantic by about 7 p.m.
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We have a winner: Ziphius the Aquatic Drone !
Awesome news on Engadget, for those of us that rooted for Ziphius, the smartphone-controlled aquatic drone :-)
Now that our Insert Coin: New Challengers contestants had duked it out and the judges have made their decision, we have a winner: Ziphius. Not only did the bot win $20,000 thanks to deliberation by our judges, but it came home with our $5,000 reader’s choice prize too. Victorious and $25,000 richer, the brains behind the aquatic drone joined us backstage to chat about their project.