The Sportlife Saga is about three elements of nature; water, ice and snow. The story of the element water is told by Guillaume Néry, world champion in freediving. Via Vedrana Vidovic
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Soul Surfer – Bethany Hamilton
Meet Bethany Hamilton, a professional surfer from Kauai, Hawaii who lost her arm to a 14-foot tiger shark at the age of thirteen. Video named after her autobiography “Soul Surfer“.
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Behold, a Faroese meteorological tsunami
This is footage from Sørvágur in the Faroe Island on January 18th, 2012, the same day as those storm photos you might remember. It is called a meteotsunami or meteorological tsunami, and is a wave phenomenon of meteorological origin, where traveling air pressure disturbances (in this case a huge atmospheric low pressure) generate barotropic ocean waves that amplify near the coast through resonance mechanisms. We call it ‘rennisjógvur’ (running sea) or ‘storm flóð’ (storm flood) in Faroese, and this video is in real time.
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David Verraszto gets nine-month ban from Hungary for striking Gergely Gyurta
According to SwimmingWorld Magazine, the Hungarian Swimming Association has enacted a suspended nine-month ban of David Verraszto recently, for striking teammate Gergely Gyurta on the final night of the 2011 European Short Course Championships in Szczecin, Poland. This was presumably because Gyurta had sent a text message to Verraszto’s ex-girlfriend, as we heard in December. The implementation of the ban has been pushed back two years though, so that Verraszto can compete at the Olympics. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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CC photo #26: Omega OSB11 starting blocks in KlaksvÃk
We might not have any 50-meter pools in the Faroe Islands, but we got our first set of fancy Olympic standard Omega OSB11 starting blocks in September, 2010, and our next in 2011, so that we at least can start our swims properly in 2 of 3 25-meter pools :-)
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Sirenia Shadows, a swim with the manatees
The endangered West Indian Manatees of Florida get a loving tribute in Built By Wildman‘s stunning nature short, “Sirenia Shadows.” Via The Daily What
Sirenia Shadows from Built By Wildman on Vimeo.
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London 2010 Anti-Doping Testing Facility will run 24×7 to screen athletes
The BBC just got a look at the newly-unveiled anti-doping testing facility that’ll be used at the London Olympics this summer, hailed as the most high-tech, complete such facility ever conceived. We’re talking thousands of workers, testing going 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in a space estimated at the size of seven tennis courts, ensuring that results will be available in about 48 hours thanks to the nonstop pace of testing planned. Read more here on popsci.com
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Kuwait’s Abdul Rehaman Al Bader suspended for doping with Metylhexaneamine
FINA announced today that Kuwait’s Abdul Rehaman Al Bader has been suspended for six months retroactive to October 19, 2011, after testing positive for Methylhexaneamine at the 1st GCC Games in Bahrain. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
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Cat takes on hungry alligator
Brave little kitty ! :-)