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  • Free Style (a documentary)

    Jan 18, 2012

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    rokur
    in History

    A story about a boy who loved to swim. Not the final draft of the film, will replace once it is ready, see Vimeo.

    Free Style (a documentary) from Evan Glaser on Vimeo.

  • “Swim.Dive.Win”

    Jan 18, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Training

    A community spotlight on the 2009 Brookline High School Girl’s Swim Team.

    “Swim.Dive.Win” from More Than Meets The Iris on Vimeo.

  • CC photo #19: Lucky girl gets to lead Der Paul et al past the Rijeka 2008 audience

    Jan 18, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Fun

    That Croatian girl seems pretty happy with her job, leading Mads Glæsner, Paul Biedermann and Massimiliano Rosolino (in that order) past photographers and audience after the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course men’s 400 freestyle medal ceremony. And yes, I must stress that she did wear clothes :-P

    Lucky girl leads Biedermann et al past the Rijeka 2008 audience

  • Bryan Woodward only one of 40 arrested in week-long internet sex sting

    Jan 18, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Crime

    They called it Operation Red Cheeks, the week-long, multi-agency operation that resulted in the arrest of 40 suspects in Osceola County, including Gator Swim Club head coach Bryan Allen Woodward, pro Senior PGA Tour golfer Stephen W. Thomas, U.S. Army Reserve Shane D. Cousins and teacher Alexander Roy. Read more and see news segment here on Click Orlando, and here from wesh2 on YouTube with footage from one of the arrests.

  • Live manatee webcam goes online

    Jan 18, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Nature

    The Save the Manatee Club debuted a live underwater camera on Tuesday morning at Blue Spring State Park, with which we’ll now be able to watch manatees seeking warm water refuge in the park’s spring run during the winter. Mmm, warm water … If you’re lucky, you might even see me ! :-D

    Watch live streaming video from savethemanateecam at livestream.com

     

    Read more here on The Daytona Beach News-Journal

  • Underwater dragon dance in Bangkok

    Jan 18, 2012

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    rokur
    in Fun

    Thailand prepared to welcome in the Year of the Black Water Dragon on Tuesday as the Lunar New Year approached. In Bangkok, children attended a unique performance which included an underwater Chinese dragon dance. Hmm, if they could make that go really fast, by wearing fins or riding some underwater jetski underneath the outfit, then it would be the perfect thing to scare the kids (and adults) with :-)

  • Biologists capture rare photos of whales and dolphins playing together

    Jan 17, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Nature

    Via Treehugger, they’re pretty excited that wild humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins take time out to play with each other off the coast of Hawaii. Unfortunately we only get to see shots of dolphins riding whales, and not the other way around :-P

  • CC photo #18: The forest of flags at Shanghai 2011

    Jan 17, 2012

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    An angled view of the flags outside the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai. Always difficult to get good photos of flags, but a stiff breeze sure helped. Just strange (for me) when the wind temperature is well above 30°C (86°F).

    The Forest of Flags at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships

  • Behold Filip Jonker and his cardboard boat

    Jan 17, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, WTF

    Named after the tugboat in Jan de Hartog’s 1940 book Hollands Glorie (published in English as Captain Jan), Dutch artist Filip Jonker’s boat De Furie is 24 feet long and made out of standard honeycomb cardboard. Fitted with a 33-horsepower diesel engine, it made the trip from Enschede in Holland to London, crossing the English channel in 22 hours. But OK, with a 4 mm thick layer of heavy-duty paint normally used on gas pipes, one could say that it is as much made out of paint, as cardboard :-)

    “A lot of people asked why I didn’t do a testmodel first, but in my opinion that is already all the effort”

    Via Wired

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