At Neko Harbour (off Andvord Bay), Antarctic Peninsula (64°50′ South) Water temperature: 0.5°C Air temperature: 0°C 2012/12/05
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Christmas Swim in Scotland
Sometimes you just need to wear christmas hats and dive into freezing water… Why not? It’s Christmas!
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Woman injured in Hastings Christmas swim dies
A Hastings woman injured during a Christmas Day swim in the sea has died.
The lady was knocked off her feet by a wave and hit her head on a groyne at Hastings Beach about 10.40am yesterday.
Lifeboat crews pulled her unconscious body from the water before she was taken to hospital. She had been described as being in “poor health.”
Sussex Police confirmed today the woman had died.
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CC photo #361: Photographer at work at Istanbul 2012
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Olympic superagent Evan Morgenstein on how the techsuit ban hurt the sport of swimming
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Nathan: Evan you work with some of the biggest names in our sport of course legends like Dara Torres and Mark Spitz, but of course athletes these days and in London, we have got Cullen Jones and you worked with so many athletes that I would say the vast majority of deals that swimmers get come because of the work that you do. Now before we get into specifics can you give us just a general idea right now of how the market is for swimmers?
Evan: Oh it is terrible. I mean if you were a swimmer looking to make this a career. There could be a worse time to do it. You know unfortunately when the thieves at FINA made a decision that they were going to get rid of the techsuits. What they did was they almost bankrupted several of the swimwear companies and they have never recovered from that because they were so vested in that, but they actually hurt the sport and hurt the popularity of the sport. People love Olympics sports like swimming because of world records and although there were a couple of world records broken in London comparative to Beijing there was virtually no records broken and that is a shame. Technology changes in every other sport.
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Herm Island Christmas Day Swim 2012
Every Christmas day, the residents and visitors of Herm Island gather to swim at 11.00am. This year, Belvoir Bay was the venue as it is beautifully sheltered from the prevailing westerley wind.
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Christmas Day Swim 2012 – Stradbally, Co. Waterford
Traditional christmas swim on Stradbally cove in aid of the new playground. www.aowa.de Air temperature 7° celcius…. water temperature…. I donw know, but it was very cold. I did it the first time and really enjoyed it. Will do it again in 2013
http://youtu.be/1k8JkJFFEuU
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Portcawl Christmas Day Swim 2012
Porthcawl,South Wales UK The annual swim which raises money for charity The water temp. was 48F which is 9Centigrade….The air temp was the same ,oddly enough.
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Christmas Day Swim 2012 – Salthill, Galway
“It was even warmer this year compared to both 2011 and 2010”

