USA SWIMMING “AquaZone” Experience – FISH Technology from FISH Technology on Vimeo.
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Goodbye, Summer
“Another bit of test footage from the new dive rig. Considering this will probably be that last time you can surf Venice without a wetsuit for a while, I wanted to see if I could capture that summer fun feel through the lens.”
Goodbye, Summer from Colin Pierce on Vimeo.
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Ryan Lochte Shows Off His Abs on ‘Good Afternoon America’
The 11-time Olympic medalist sits down with Lara Spencer and Josh Elliott.
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Ryan Lochte Hangs Out with Miss USA Olivia Culpo at Fashion Week
Ryan Lochte has had the time of his life since winning five medals at the 2012 Summer Games in London. He’s been seen partying with Prince Harry in Vegas, has shot cameo appearances for 90210 and 30 Rock, and he’s been hired as a special correspondent for E! to cover events during New York’s Fashion Week. Not to mention, the athlete has fans and women constantly swooning over him, but it looks like he’s found someone he likes — Miss USA Olivia Culpo. Read OK!
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Oussama Mellouli Tunisia’s Golden Swimmer
Oussama Mellouli is no stranger to pain. As a champion endurance swimmer, he swims an average of four hours a day to train for some of the toughest events in the pool and open water competitions. But this year the athlete went beyond even this magnitude of physical struggle.
During the last swimming competition of the London 2012 Olympics, Mellouli swam 10 km against the world’s top athletes. He did so while suffering from a virus, two herniated disks in his back and a rotator-cuff injury…and won gold.
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Swimming underground
An international crew of six astronauts are training for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for spaceflight. There are many similarities to spaceflight such as a lack of day–night cycle, sensory deprivation, minimal hygiene and the necessity to work as a team and solve problems together.
After a week of training they entered the caves to spend six days living and working underground.
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Help oceanographers comb the ocean floor online
A new interactive website called Seafloor Explorer needs the public’s help to identify objects and seascapes in a few million underwater photos. The project is starting with 100,000 images, but there are more than 40 million in all. The photos come from the HabCam group, an underwater habitat-mapping project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Via POPSCI
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CC photo #258: A tree up through the Budapest 2010 spectator stands
Cool, I guess the tree was there first, and the stands maybe only temporary :-)
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Behold a nuclear bomb exploding under water
According to Pat Bradley, one of the cameramen who documented US atomic tests during the 1950s, the Wahoo and Umbrella underwater explosions were more amazing than a atmospheric nuclear explosion. Watch this stunning video and listen to him explaining his experience of living these explosions just 2.5 miles away. Read Gizmodo