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Octopuses outsmart marine scientists
When University of Cape Town researchers lowered a specially-designed “baited†camera into False Bay to film life underwater, they had not reckoned on the wiliness of the bay’s octopuses. Not only did one manage to open the bait canister and eat its fill of the pilchards inside, but some of its mates made off with bits of equipment.
UCT research assistant Lauren de Vos said yesterday: “We were flummoxed by how clever they are, smart enough to unclip the bait canister which is not easy, and we’ve had several pieces of equipment stolen. We’ve got it all on film.â€
Read more here on Cape Times and visit Save our Seas
Testing, testing … 1,2,3! from Lauren De Vos on Vimeo.
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Google Launches Underwater “Street View”
“Apple Maps might drive you off the road and into the ocean, but Google Maps just launched “Underwater Street View”, in case you’d like to see the sights but stay dry.”
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US Swimmers in Shanghai 1973
“Footage from the US State Department documentary showing the visit of the US Swimming and Diving team to Shanghai, PRC in 1973”
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Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Teams do ‘Call Me Maybe’
“At the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic Team’s Celebration of Excellence, following the London 2012 Games, athletes teamed up again and rocked out to Canadian superstar Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit song Call Me Maybe.”
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Highest waterfall dive – Guinness World Records Classics
The highest waterfall dive was 12.19 m (39.99 ft) and was achieved by Di Huanran (China) at the Diaoshuilou Waterfall of Jingbo lake, Mudanjiang City, China, on 5 October 2008. Doesn’t sound that high, but the landing zone is scary.
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CC photo #272: Leveaux after his 50 free WR at Rijeka 2008
French swimmer Amaury Leveaux after his 20.48 world record in the men’s 50 meter freestyle at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships semifinal, see result list here. He set a lot of records at that meet.
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Ryan Lochte & Conor Dwyer: Water is Everything
US Olympic Gold Medalists Ryan Lochte and Conor Dwyer for Water For People
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CC photo #271: Stanislav Donets after his Rijeka 2008 world record
Russia’s Stanislav after clocking his 49.32 world record in the men’s 100 meter backstroke at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course swimming championships, see result list here. It has been improved quite a lot since then, first Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP) 49.20 at the Spanish Short Course Championships a week later, then Arkady Vyatchanin (RUS) 49.17 in the Istanbul 2009 Europeans semifinal, then Vyatchanin *and* Donets 48.97 in the Istanbul 2009 final, and then Nick Thoman 48.94 at the Duel in the Pool in Manchester a few days later. And then it stopped, with the fall of the supersuits, see progression here on SwimRankings.
