A Dolce & Gabbana ad near the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, featuring some of Italy’s most prominent Italian swimmers. I guess in connection with the then ongoing Roma 2009 World Swimming Championships. Shot taken while driving past it in the shuttle bus.
Norwegian lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has set a new freefall lifeboat record with its new generation FF1200 boat. The boat was successfully dropped from a freefall height of 60 meters, unmanned but loaded with seven tonnes to simulate the full capacity of 70 100kg people (read: average size of sailors ;-), as part of the certification tests of the boat. Read for instance Ship & Offshore
“The FF1200 managed this height in an excellent way,†says Geir Arne Veglo, CEO of Umoe Schat-Harding Equipment AS. “The FF1200 entered the water cleanly and made excellent headway.â€
My mom tried this once, from a lower height, just for the fun of it. My personal enthusiasm is more in the ‘snowman’s chance in Hell’ – category …
‘Courtesy’ of BuzzFeed, well let us see them go 1:54 in the 200 IM.
Read Stanford University News, a rapid thermal exchange device nicknamed ‘the glove’ creates a vacuum to draw blood to the surface of the palms, where cold circulating water then cools the blood, which returns to the core and rapidly lowers the body’s core temperature. Greatly improving exercise recovery and performance, ‘better than steroids’. Via POPSCI
Here is 8-year old Charlie Naysmith holding 600 grams of ambergris that he found on the beach at Hengistbury Head in England, a waxy substance from the intestines of sperm whales which is used to prolong the scent of perfume. That’s it, I’m going down to the coast with a couple of liters of schnapps, to meet the whales. Read Daily Echo via Geekology
This ad is awesome, via Mashable
An update on that story from yesterday: “Thank You For Donating $141 Toward Ryan Lochte’s Alleged Cock Shot. We Will Not Be Purchasing Ryan Lochte’s Alleged Cock Shot.”
The reason explained here
Alas, we’ve been informed by the exceedingly kind and patient people at Indiegogo that our Cockstarter campaign violated the site’s terms of service. Indiegogo is now in the process of returning contributions to our donors.
(Image courtesy of JD Lasica, CC BY-NC 2.0)
Behold a wild bunch using a bungee cord attached to a boat to pull them down a hill and over a ramp into a lake while riding an inner-tube, via Geekologie
The Faroese team at the London 2012 Paralympics. Flagbearer is our single competitor Ragnvaldur Jensen, who will participate in the men’s 100 breaststroke on Thursday 6 September, 2012, the one waving the flag in the back his coach Rúni Gaardbo, head coach here in our local club FLOT in Toftir.
Here is them walking in, courtesy of ParalympicSportTV
