He protested this morning that he couldn’t join our local swimming club, since he didn’t know how to swim. ‘I only know how to jump and dive and make somersaults’. I guess we forced him to the registration / free swim today, and I guess it went okay ;-)
Complete with a fished-filled trophy and all, see NBC Sports
Wow, the internets have found this video from a 2008 appearance on a Maryland late night comedy talk show called Closing Time, and they are not happy. See for instance Jezebel, Buzzfeed, NewNowNext and ology
Trying to count laps here, but it is difficult, via Arbroath
Also, apparently coaches are the same everywhere, via Google Blog
Not much rescue about that, Solly the hippo stuck in a South African swimming pool died before the vet arrived, apparently because of the aggravated stress experienced ever since he had been fighting for a position in his herd. Read The Washington Post and News24
Molly Palmer, while competing in the recent Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament off Kona, Hawaii, joined the exclusive “granders” club after landing a Pacific blue marlin weighing 1,022.5 pounds. It was by far the largest marlin of the tournament and would have earned Palmer an International Game Fish Assn. world record. But after four hours of reeling and gaining no line, she reluctantly agreed to let the crew assist in the catch, disqualifying her from the tournament and record consideration. Read GrindTV and KomoNews
This video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of a squid, being stimulated by electricity produced from the sound of Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain”. See Backyard brains via Buzzfeed
Used at the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk, owned by the local fire department, looks like a Pioner Multi complete with winch-lowerable bow door.
