Also, apparently coaches are the same everywhere, via Google Blog
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Oh no, our hippo from yesterday died before he could be rescued
Not much rescue about that, Solly the hippo stuck in a South African swimming pool died before the vet arrived, apparently because of the aggravated stress experienced ever since he had been fighting for a position in his herd. Read The Washington Post and News24
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Girl catches 1000+ pound marlin, but no record since she couldn’t reel it in
Molly Palmer, while competing in the recent Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament off Kona, Hawaii, joined the exclusive “granders” club after landing a Pacific blue marlin weighing 1,022.5 pounds. It was by far the largest marlin of the tournament and would have earned Palmer an International Game Fish Assn. world record. But after four hours of reeling and gaining no line, she reluctantly agreed to let the crew assist in the catch, disqualifying her from the tournament and record consideration. Read GrindTV and KomoNews
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What happens when squid listen to Cypress Hill
This video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of a squid, being stimulated by electricity produced from the sound of Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain”. See Backyard brains via Buzzfeed
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CC photo #238: A pretty cool support boat
Used at the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk, owned by the local fire department, looks like a Pioner Multi complete with winch-lowerable bow door.
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After London, athletes still pushing for Rule 40 change
The London Olympics may be over, but a prominent group of U.S. track and field athletes isn’t letting one of the Games’ hot-button issues fade: the furor over Rule 40, the International Olympic Committee provision which prohibits athletes from promoting non-official sponsors during a period around the Games. Read USA Today
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Poor hippo can swim but not climb out of the pool
A young hippopotamus plopped into the pool on Tuesday at the Monate Conservation Lodge north of Johannesburg. The pool is big enough for the hippo to swim but it’s eight feet deep with no steps and “there’s no way he can come out,” lodge manager Ruby Ferreira told The Associated Press on Thursday. Now the will have to sedate the hippo and lift it out of the pool with a crane, much of the water already drained to make the extraction easier. Via Mercury News
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Symmonds tries for the beer mile world record (and fails)
Hopefully not swimming related (now, that would be an *evil* record), but here is track runner Nick Symmonds trying to break the “beer mile” world record, in which a runner has to chug a beer at quarter-mile intervals. He finished in 5:19, 10 seconds short of the world record of 5:09 set by Canadian marathoner Jim Finlayson. Via USA Today
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Business deals drying up for Grant Hackett
Grant Hackett has been dumped as ambassador for Uncle Tobys after 14 years, and Channel 9 is unlikely to re-sign him when his four-year contract finishes next month. His two-year deal with Kumho also ends next month, a spokesman for the Korean manufacturer said it is being reviewed. Read Adelaide Now
