“Badem”, mascot of the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. They are endangered, the monk seals, only 600 or thereabout left.
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Laureus Academy honors Michael Phelps with Exceptional Achievement Award
See laureus.com
Legendary swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time with a career total of 22 medals, including 18 gold medals, eight of which he won in one Olympiad in Beijing, was presented with a new Award – the Laureus Academy Exceptional Achievement Award.
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Speedo Sculpture 2013
Supersuit technology put to good use, I guess – Body shaping swimwear from Speedo Sculpture
Speedo Sculpture
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Herbert Nitsch’s final near-death 800ft dive record attempt featured on 60 Minutes
Re-airing throughout March, see for instance Sho Sports
In his first interview since the 800-ft. dive that caused brain damage and ended his career, Free Diver Herbert Nitsch Reflects on his injuries and the dive that turned out to be his limit. Herbert Nitsch, known as “The Deepest Man on Earth” for the 32 world records in free diving he held, tried for yet another and nearly died in the process. After months of rehabilitation, Nitsch tells Bob Simon in the diver’s first interview since the career-ending dive that he knew then he shouldn’t have dived that day. Nitsch’s story, including the first footage of his fateful dive, will be told on this episode of 60 Minutes Sports.
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Single Breath
“This short movie has been shot in the Maldives, North Male Atoll, during the Manta Rays Season. Since this trip freediving has became a true passion, the sensation of going down without bottle, just lungs, and going a bit deeper everyday to extend my personal frontier, it’s an amazing feeling. In this movie I was about 15 meters deep.”
Single Breath from milo thoretton on Vimeo.
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Alligator Learns to Swim with a Prosthetic Tail
Read for instance Ecorazzi
We’ve seen bunnies in wheelchairs, sea turtles with prosthetic limbs, but as far as the Phoenix Herpetological Society knows, this is the very first alligator learning to swim with a prosthetic tail.
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Seal Pup Slip n’ Slide (surfboard remote camera)
“Newly weaned harbor seal pups make use of my old windsurf board. I mounted a remote GoPro camera and these posers seemed to know exactly where to perform! It had rained that morning and the slip n’ slide ensued.”
Seal Pup Slip n' Slide (surfboard remote camera)
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Swimming to Alcatraz in March
“Evan joins the Alcatraz Swimming Society (ASS) of the South End Rowing Club for their weekly swim. March 6, 2013. Pier 33 San Francisco to the Rock. Water temp 51F; Air temp 50F; Winds 10 knots. No wetsuits were used in the making of this film.”
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ABC News segment on shallow water blackout
Important stuff !
Shallow Water Blackout Australia on ABC News Breakfast 27.2.13 (Breath Holding Games)