Science doesn’t full understand how she does it, but ocean swimmer Lynne Cox survives in water that is cold enough to kill. Researchers have been trying to understand her unique ability for 30 years. Read more here on CBS News
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Olympian Ryan Lochte talks Daytona
Olympic swimmer and Daytona resident Ryan Lochte spoke with the media before the Gatorade Duels at Daytona, where he was appointed as grand marshal. Someone manages to sneak that question in yet again, about Michael Phelps.
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Behold, Langton’s 62″ standing box jump
This is no swimmer, but 6’2″, 230 lbs ‘Super’ Steve Langton, brakeman on the US gold winning bobsled team. 62 inches is 157,48 centimeters to us metric guys. Dailyhouse via GoSwim on Twitter
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CC photo #59: Pál talking to a bunch of kids in Sørvágur
Pál Joensen having a chat with a bunch of kids in Sørvágur, Faroe Islands, en route to South Africa back in April 2010. They have a 16 meter pool there, but alas no swim club.
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Ottesen teaches her date for a day how to track start
In the Danish TV show “Emils damer” (Emil’s Dames), lucky reporter Emil tries out what it is like to be the boyfriend of ten famous Danish women for 24 hours (yeah, you can do that, but the job is taken and the waiting list is full). In this video, he tries out dryland with Danish world champion Jeanette Ottesen, where after she tries to teach him the track start. It fails.
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Australian swimmer dies after being hit by jet ski
A 51-year-old swimmer has died in hospital after he was hit by a jet ski at Port Melbourne on Friday afternoon. He’d gone to the beach with his daughter and went swimming, when he was hit by a jet ski with two men on board, unaware that they had even hit something until fishermen on the pier desperately waved them down. Fishermen that according to the Age had warned them earlier to leave the jet ski restricted zone. The unconscious swimmer was towed back to the shore by the two men after they had been alerted, rushed to hospital and put on life support with severe head trauma. Read for instance The Telegraph
(Unrelated image of a jet ski courtesy of ZeMitch, CC BY-NC-SA)
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CC photo #58: The swim pool in LeirvÃk, Faroe Islands
A photo taken during warmup at the “Reka stevna 2008” swim meet in LeirvÃk, Faroe Islands. We have plenty of these 16 meters pools, which are good for the youngest age groups, but only three 25 meter pools and still no 50 meter pool.
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Malta Cliff Diving 2011
Very cool, via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook
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Cars parked on thin ice go under
Doub, a spot near the shore of Lake Winnebago seemed like a good place to park a car for the “Battle of the Bago” fishing tournament, but after a few hours the ice broke and close to 30 cars went under, some ‘only’ several inches and others several feet. It will cost the vehicle owners between $500 and $2000 to have their cards pulled out, and one tow truck owner said all the cars he pulled out were totaled. Via nbc26.com