Synchronized swimming has never looked so good thanks to the Twinscam, invented by Japanese broadcaster NHK in 2010, simultaneously showing swimmer’s torsos above water and their legs below it. A solution to a common problem in water events, that because of the way light refracts and reflects differently above and below water, heavy image processing needed for a camera to do both, we’ve only been able to see shots that show one point of view at a time. The Twinscam does it simply by using two cameras, one above and one below, and then combining the feeds to make it look like one shot. Read more here on Slate
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Ryan Lochte interviewed by TMZ
Warning, it goes something like this: “I’ve got a million questions for you … but, uhm, can we start with sex?”. Via K945
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CC photo #226: Cecilia being interviewed after Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012
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.
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Naked man rescued from shark infested waters
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)
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OMEGA House「Swimmers Night at London 2012ã€
Featuring Chad Le Clos, Alexander Popov, Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin and others, via SCAQ Blog
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Man tries to dive through rubber ring
Seems a little tight, you’ll have to watch the video to see if he makes it :-)
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Humpback whale breaches just feet away from boat
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
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A bit of fun with my GoPro and a fishing rod
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?
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Evening Swim
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.
