Young gun Óli Mortensen from Havnar Svimjifelag became the 2nd Faroese swimmer ever to swim under 16 minutes in the 1500 meter (short course) freestyle, when he managed a 15:53.39 at the Ægir meet in KlaksvÃk this weekend. Born in 1996, the first Faroese swimmer ever was Pál Joensen (1990) with a 15:56.21 in 2007.
Here is a video of the last 25 meters …
I stand corrected – the world is not completely cruel, as Matt Grevers’ proposal to Annie Chandler totally outclassed Tom Daley and Team GB’s “Sexy and I know it†LMFAO lip sync video (also) in viral rating. 900.000+ views and counting to Grevers, after only two days on YouTube, compared to Daley’s 480.000+ views. Phew!
Here is swimmer Grevers being all gentleman-like …
And here are the divers :-P
Chad Ho became the first man to win three Midmar Mile titles in a row on Sunday, while Keri-Anne Payne clinched a record seventh successive crown in the women’s race in Howick, Kwa-Zulu Natal. Here below, we see Keri-Anne Payne and Ashley Twichell sprint to the finish, filmed by a remote controlled quadcopter helicam. Via sport24 and Lane 9 News
The video title says “Walruses sunbathing”, insight into the activities of Russian winter swimming club “Walrus” in Sviyaga River in Ulyanovsk, some 893 kilometers (555 miles) east from Moscow. Looks fun but gee … when Russians start to look cold, it must be absolutely freezing.
The music video for JLS‘s official Sport Relief single, Proud, sees three British Olympic medal winners join the UK’s hottest pop group to celebrate the UK’s biggest year of sport: Swimmer and double gold medal winner Rebecca Adlington, triple jumper and silver medal winner Phillips Idowu and gymnast and bronze medal winner Louis Smith.
“Jiaolong will make a 7,000-meter test dive this year after several improvements are made to the submersible vessel,” Jin Jiancai, secretary-general of the China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association, said over the weekend. If the planned dive is successful, Jiaolong will have proven itself capable of reaching nearly any seabed in the world. China will also hold the record for performing the deepest navigable dive, surpassing Japan, whose Shinkai 6500 dove 6,527 meters in August 1989. Bathyscaphe Trieste went deeper in 1960, to 10,911 meters, but could not navigate along the bottom of the sea bed.
The gold hunters of “Bering Sea Gold” (Fri., 10 p.m. EST on Discovery) use high-powered vacuums on the bottom of the sea in their work to try and find gold there. But as with any equipment underwater, working with them can be dangerous. Emily, the newest member of the team, who’s trying to make money to pay for school, got a scare that had her questioning if the potential payoff was worth the risk.
We’ve seen others do it before, but now it is Tancock ! :-)
GoPro’s highly anticipated Wi-Fi BacPac and Wi-Fi Remote Combo Kit are promised to be released in March 2012 for $99, that will allow us to simultaneusly record to onboard SD-card and live stream over Wi-Fi from 50 cameras at a time, remote controlled via the Wi-Fi Remote or with a free GoPro App available for both Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.
OK, I’m not 100% sure that we will be able to  have all 50 GoPro’s set up to to the same live stream, and am quite sure that most Wi-Fi nets will be hard pressed if all 50 live stream simultaneously. But just imagine if we can switch between let’s say just 8 of them, and somehow have streaming sound from a quality external microphone also  … that is a major live streaming setup in a box ! :-)
(My favorite photo gadget reporter Olivia reviewing the GoPro Hero2 HD, mentioning the Wi-Fi BacPac at 2:13)
