Cecilia Wigant Eysturdal being interviewed in Nólsoy by IMG / Trans World Sport after winning the annual open water race from Tórshavn to Nólsoy, Saturday, August 11th, 2012. Jon Hestoy, President of the Faroese Swimming Association, also filming with his GoPro, I’m working on merging our videos.
As sharks circled all around, rescuers pulled a fisherman from the waters off the coast of Western Australia. The man was one of two who were plucked from the ocean after being spotted by a television helicopter in a dramatic rescue involving five aircraft and five boats. It came after three men failed to return after setting out in a fishing boat from Leeman, 170 miles (270km) north of Perth, on Thursday, prompting a search that covered 125 square miles (320s/km) of ocean. Read more here on Arbroath
(and don’t worry about the nakedness, they have blurred his bits)
Featuring Chad Le Clos, Alexander Popov, Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin and others, via SCAQ Blog
Seems a little tight, you’ll have to watch the video to see if he makes it :-)
Wow, apparently (and thankfully?) it was just a playful calf leaping out of the water 10-30 feet away from two boats near Tofino, British Columbia, Matthew Thornton capturing this most awesome photo on the other boat, video below captured with an iPhone.
Via PetaPixel
Me and Bartal went fishing with the boys Friday evening, but had trouble catching anything but a fyke full with seaweed. So we put the fishing rod to other use :-)
Btw, ‘Heljareygað’ is what we call that hole, directly translated “Hell’s eye”. Gotta love the Nordic language, eh?
A short film done in partnership with swimwear company So De Mel, shot with Canon 5D’s and a Go Pro over one evening.
Evening Swim from Seth Epstein on Vimeo.
“Strange creatures live in Florida’s spring-fed rivers. Some people call them mermaids and mermen, I call them The River People.”
The River People from Chris Rish on Vimeo.
As athletes have sprinted and soared their way to bronze, silver and gold in London, Morning Edition has celebrated the Olympics with the Poetry Games. With thousands of listeners voting online, Mbali Vilakazi from South Africa won for her poem “Swim Your Own Race“, inspired by fellow South African Natalie du Toit, making history as the first woman amputee to qualify for the Olympics. Read NPR
