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  • Ice Fishing – A Canadian Pastime

    Jan 9, 2013

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    rokur
    in Freediving, Fun, Open Water, WTF

    The lengths Canadians go to when foraging for food…

  • 15 Year’s Retrospective of Victoria’s Secret Swim Catalogue Photoshoots HQ

    Jan 9, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Wow

    Warning, nice looking ladies in bikinis overload

  • CC photo #375: The Istanbul 2012 women’s 50 fly medal podium

    Jan 9, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    From left to right Liuyang Jiao (CHN), Ying Lu (CHN) and Jeanette Ottesen Gray (DEN), medal winners in the women’s 50 meter butterfly at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. See the result list here.

    The Istanbul 2012 women's 50 fly medal podium

  • GoPro: Director’s Cut – Shark Riders

    Jan 9, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Freediving, Nature, Open Water, Technology, Wow

    An extended version of this video, now with more speak

  • Dolphin Stampede Overtakes Whale Watching Boat

    Jan 9, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Nature

    This video has gone viral like crazy, 426000+ views since uploaded 3 days ago. A huge pod of about 1,000 Common Dolphins stampeded off the coast of Dana Point, California, like a herd of wild horses. Via Mashable

  • Pruney fingers give us better grip underwater

    Jan 9, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Science

    In 2011, a team at Newcastle University, UK, timed people as they transferred wet or dry objects from one box to another with and without wrinkled fingers. With wrinkles, wet objects were transferred about 12 per cent faster than with unwrinkled fingers, while dry objects were transferred equall fast regardless of wrinkles. The reason for us not having prune-fingers all the time, might be that it decreases sensitivity.

    Awesome study, via New Scientist

    Life

    Image courtesy of Lacey_and_Cielle , CC BY-NC-SA

  • PCA 2013: Michael Phelps swims into big money poker tournament

    Jan 9, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Gossip

    Photographers walked backward, boom mics glided through the air, and heads turned as 18-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps crossed the garish carpet looking for his seat among nearly 600 other poker players. Six months ago in London, everybody wanted a piece of him. Today, Phelps is just another guy with a $10,000 receipt for a seat and stack of poker chips. Read PokerStars.com

  • Author To Swim 2.4 Miles to His Book Signing

    Jan 9, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Health, Open Water

    San Francisco journalist and surfer Jaimal Yogis will swim to his book event in San Francisco tonight, to talk about The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me about Survival, Success, Surfing…and Love. You can watch the swim live online. Read GalleyCat

  • Killer Karaoke, TV Show Dunks a Singing Woman Into a Tank of Live Snakes

    Jan 8, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun

    “What ever you do, do not stop singing”

    Via Laughing Squid

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