Via Buzzfeed
Maka onaona, one of two male monk seals living at the Waikiki Aquarium in Honolulu, enjoys spinning in his pool. Prepare to be hypnotized.
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Swimmer dies after being rescued from Dublin Bay
Read Irish Times
The alarm was raised at about 11.20am yesterday when the 35-year-old went swimming off Dalkey Island and did not return.
A major search operation was launched and the Garda Water Unit pulled the man from the sea south of Sorrento Terrace.
The man was airlifted to Tallaght Hospital, where he later died.
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CC photo #464: George Bovell III at Istanbul 2012
Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell III making his entrance at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Here the men’s 50 freestyle final, he was 4th in 21.03, see the result list here.
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Dad Dancing at Stadium
So awesome it hurts :-)
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AZ To Hire Minority Lifeguards Who ‘Can’t Swim’
Via Breibart
http://youtu.be/dHDseHidt1w
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Michael Phelps signing autographs 4/6/13
“Nice guy.”
http://youtu.be/L9kBS9YIsdA
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CC photo #463: The Herning 2013 Poster (a closer look)
From yesterday, go see herning2013.com/
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Amazon’s Olympics have swimming too, only with piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles
Read The Guardian, via Neatorama
Poised on the starting blocks at the Olympics, the 15 swimmers had good reason to feel apprehensive. But the cause of their nervousness was not the race itself – it was the piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles lurking in the turbid waters below. […]
The swimming events all take place in the murky waters of the Loretoyaco river, a tributary of the Amazon. Waiting for her 100m freestyle race, Lina Castro, a 20-year-old member of the Tikun indigenous community, gazed into the water and considered the hazards. “When the race is about to start I need to be calm and not think about all the things that live in the river,” she said.
(Looks nice, the Rio Loretoyaco, photo courtesy of Dave Lonsdale, CC BY 2.0)