The longest wave surfed by a dog (open water) is 107.2 meters (351.7 ft), and was achieved by Abbie Girl (USA) at Ocean Beach Dog Beach, in San Diego, California, USA, on 18 October 2011.
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Felix Baumgartner to jump from space today
No I know, hopefully not swimming relevant, but I’m watching this crazy Swiss guy jumping from the stratosphere today, to freefall at the speed of sound after only 30 seconds. Live on YouTube, he is entering the capsule at this moment, jumping in about 2 hours.
UPDATE: The launch has been aborted for today, due to gusty winds.
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CC photo #284: The big boys sprint at Istanbul 2009
OK, not totally sure here, but I think the guy with the ‘meat hook’ stroke on lane 4 from us is Frédérick Bousquet, here winning the men’s 50 freestyle prelims at the LEN 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, Turkey in 21.18, on his way to winning the event in 20.53 that same evening.
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CC photo #283: Faroese swimmers checking out a gift box at DÃ…M 2008
Don’t really remember what is was, and why they got it, but for some reason our young Faroese swimmers got a gift box at the Danish Youth Championships 2008. The interest was immense :-)
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Swimming at Black Rock
“This video starts with me picking the GoPro up off the ocean floor. I’d lost it about 10 minutes earlier. It fell out of my pocket while swimming to check out some gentle splashing in the water (I thought was a turtle). Luckily the camera is silver so I was able to spot it half-buried in the sand. Anyhow, turns out, the splashing wasn’t a turtle at all.”
Swimming at Black Rock from Matt Terski on Vimeo.
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Sander Smørdal joins Speed Endurance, first post is about Scandinavia at London 2012
Excellent news, Norwegian swimmer/blogger Sander E. Smørdal has been added as author to the Speed Endurance Swimming Blog, his first post there is an interesting recap of “London 2012 – The Scandinavian Story“. Sander also publishes the Norwegian part of Simma.nu, as well as working for TV2 in Norway, but now you’ll get it in English too ! :-)
“For the Nordic countries in general the London Olympic Games was a giant let down. Following great expectations, the Scandinavians as a whole delivered no medals, and for Norway: not even a semi final.”
Sander at the MU 2012 in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, substituting as coach for Jón Bjarnason at SuSvim -
Anthony Ervin almost there, song-writing opps sold out
That Indiegogo funding campaign really worked, Anthony Ervin is now at $8,570 of the $10,000 goal with 23 days to go, his 2012 World Cup circuit expenses almost paid for, with him having to write ‘only’ 5 songs and send some 50+ postcards and other stuff from the tour.
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A mildly confusing (but beautiful) cinemagram
See Mashable
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South Africa’s Golden Boy Chad le Clos
“Join us as we find out more about the race against Michael Phelps, what his training entails and how his family feel about his incredible accomplishments!”
Chad also reveals his flat feet …