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Dubai testing the Sensa wristband lifeguard alert system

Mar 19, 2012

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in Safety

Trials of a lifeguard alert system called Sensa will begin in two weeks at several hotels in Dubai, if successful to be adopted by several of the emirate’s 20,000 pools. Swimmers are given wristbands containing a sensor that alerts the lifeguard’s pager if held deeper than 60cm underwater for more than 20 seconds. The complete package costs about 100,000 Dirham for one pool (US$ 27,225), but the makers believe the system in return will allow for more cost-efficient lifeguard staffing levels.

The Swimming Pool Safety Company also has an underwater video system adopted by pools in Britain and the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Sports Complex in Dubai, used for the Dubai 2010 World Championships, but company owner Rob White says cultural sensitivities mean that wristbands were a better option than cameras in the Middle East. Read The National
Sounding the deepest spot on Earth with sonar

Mar 19, 2012

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in Nature, Open Water, Technology

The day is getting ever closer, when James Cameron will go for the second ever dive down into the deepest abyss available, according to one commenter on Facebook as soon as weather conditions are calm enough to allow them to navigate to the dive site and make the descent.
Klim: D’Arcy should apologize

Mar 19, 2012

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in Competition, Gossip

D’Arcy pleaded guilty in a 2009 criminal court case to recklessly causing grievous bodily harm and was given a suspended 14-month jail sentence. He is yet to apologise to Cowley over the incident and veteran swimmer Michael Klim on Monday said it would be “nice” of him to do so. Read more here on ninemsn, via the17thman

“We’re all very friendly and I think most of the people would appreciate that sort of gesture,” London hopeful Klim told Fox Sports.

“Nick has obviously got his own agenda and he wants to prove it’s more about the swimming than anything else for him right now.

“But for me personally, it’d be nice.”
Jordan swimmer Nazih Samer Mezayek gets 2-year ban

Mar 19, 2012

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in Doping

Jordanian swimmer Nazih Samer Mezayek has been banned for two years after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in an out-of-competition test last September. Ban starting on September 10, 2011, and ending on September 9, 2013. Source FINA via The Washington Post
Camille Muffat sets 400 free textile record at French Olympic Trials

Mar 19, 2012

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in Competition

At the French Olympic Trials today, Camille Muffat set a new French national in the women’s 400 meter freestyle, with a time of 4:01.13 besting Laure Manaudou’s 4:02.13 from the European Championships in 2006, and the world textile record of 4:01.97 set by Federica Pellegrini at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. She and Coralie Balmy qualified for the Olympics, Balmy with a 4:05.45 in the event. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine, also about how Amaury Leveaux and Laure Manaudou are back in business again.
Mom saves daughter from shark attack

Mar 19, 2012

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in Nature, Open Water, Safety

Valeh Levy and her 15-year-old daughter, Sydney, were paddling on their surfboards Wednesday off New Smyrna Beach in Florida when a shark suddenly pulled the teen underwater â€” twice. Levy pulled her daughter onto her board. Read more here on ABC News

â€œIt was to me like a scene out of â€˜Jaws,â€™ where the girlâ€™s getting sucked under, and I said, â€˜Thereâ€™s no way this thing is going to kill my daughter,â€™ and I grabbed her shoulders and I pulled her up and I threw her on the nose of my board,â€ Levy told WKMG-TV.
CC photo #80: Flags around the Istanbul 2009 pool

Mar 19, 2012

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in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

Photo taken during the opening ceremony of the Istanbul 2009 European Short Course Championships in the Abdi Ä°pekÃ§i Arena in Istanbul, Turkey.
James “The Missile” Magnussen rockets to a 47.10 in the 100 free

Mar 19, 2012

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in Competition

On the 5th day of Australian Trials, James Magnussen scorched the men’s 100 meter freestyle final with a 47.10, obviously qualifying for the Olympics ahead of also qualifying James Roberts in 47.63, with Matt Targett (48.32), Eamon Sullivan (48.53), Cameron McEvoy (48.58) and Tommaso D’Orsogna (48.64) also qualifying for the London 4×100 relay. Magnussen’s time is 0:39 seconds faster than his former world’s best ever in textile, and only 0.19 from Cielo’s supersuited world record. In the men’s 200 breaststroke, Brenton Rickard qualified with a time of 2:11.03, ahead of also qualifying Jeremy Meyer in 2:12.76, and in the 200 butterfly, JessicahÂ Schipper and Samantha Hamill qualified in 2:06.93 and 2:08.92 respectively. Via SwimNews
Rottnest Island

Mar 19, 2012

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in Fun, Nature, Technology

This is not so swimming relevant, but just a really nice video demonstrating what can be done with ‘amateur’ cameras these days. A trip to Rottnest Island, Western Australia, captured on Canon 7D and GoPro Hero. Love the colors, the clarity and those weird animals.