Along the California coast in September 2010, the Ventura Deep Six team of Mike Shaffer, Jim McConica, Kurt Baron, Tom Ball, John Chung, and Jim Neitz set out on a journey like no other. Read The Daily News of Open Water Swimming
VD6 from Jim Martin on Vimeo.
Swim team wins :-)
It looks mighty cold but is actually quite warm, the Pamukkale terraces in Turkey, the white formations deposits of minerals from spring water that built up into a series of dams, making the terraced pools what they are. See more beautiful pools here on The World Geography via Neatorama
Photo courtesy of Ana Raquel S. Hernandes, CC BY-SA 2.0
‘The world’s first underwater sword swallow’ was performed on May 9, 2006 at Manly Ocean World Aquarium -Sydney Australia, by The Space Cowboy in a tank full of sharks. Awesome!
Thorpe’s book helped his parents catch up. mid all the big issues discussed in This Is Me lies the tale of Ian Thorpe’s life away from home since he was 14, and his parents are frantically filling in the gaps.
On the 26th & 27th of October, Orillo brought to York two events: a screening of Jaws in Yearsley Swimming Pool and a pop-up bar at The De Grey Rooms. Here’s the video of how both events went!
The Jaws Experience from Orillo Productions on Vimeo.
Featuring Athens 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Gabe Woodward
Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell after winning the men’s 100 individual medley at the 2012 FINA / Arena Swimming World Cup in Berlin, Germany. See result list here.
Some of New Zealand’s greatest swimmers are celebrating a new world record – not just breaking the old mark, but annihilating it. Double Olympic champion Danyon Loader came out of retirement for the occasion, while Commonwealth Games medalist John Steel entertained as much of the Millenium Institute pool as in it. Former Commonwealth Games champion Moss Burmester was first out of the blocks for the North Shore club team as they embarked on the 100x25m journey, his 11.5s well inside the pace needed to break the record of just over 30 minutes, set in Sweden 30 years ago. Read more and watch video here on tvnz.co.nz
