Gabe Watson is charged with first-degree murder, prosecutors saying he drowned his wife on their honeymoon to collect a life insurance payout, and defense maintaining that Tina, in her first open water dive, panicked and died accidentally. He served 18 months in Australia for manslaughter. Read The Huffington Post.
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Seth Casteel’s amazing photos of diving dogs
California-based photographer Seth Casteel devised a series of ball games to get dogs playing in the pool, like holding a ball under water and releasing it in his “bobbing for apples strategy”, to get them to dunk their faces it trying to get the ball. “The timing of this is the most challenging part,” he says. Read more here on The Star
“There’s no aggression towards me. And in the photos where there’s more than one dog, there’s no aggression between the dogs. It’s really just a wild instinct to retrieve that sinking toy.â€
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Two swim coaches killed in tragic plane crash
Swim coaches Rob Marshall Hill and Seth Dawson have been identified as casualties of a single-engine plane crash Wednesday on Little Si near North Bend, Washington, according to for instance The Seattle Times. Both were swim coaches at Decatur High School and the Valley Aquatics Swim Team in South King County, Washington, 30-year-old Hill also a private flight instructor and pilot on this particular flight, and 31-year-old Dawson a local swim legend. Read for instance The Seattle Times, The Columbian, The Bellingham Herald and watch a touching video here on q13fox.com.
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Shy penguin too scared to swim
Despite being a natural-born swimmer, one small penguin at an animal park in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province is too timid to dive into the water. Penguins do know how to swim, but they have to learn how to climb up ashore, and can have problem with controlling their direction and speed while swimming. To help the young penguins gain more aquatic skills, their parents will cheer for them in the water and demonstrate proper form. If they take too long to make it back to the bank, trainers will rescue the birds to keep them from getting exhausted.
Read more here on Today’s THV
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Carnaval
Interesting effects in this video, GoPros seem to be ever present by now.
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Ryan Lochte – The Next, Hot Olympian Swimmer
Or as they say here on TMZ: “U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s won 6 medals — and even beat Michael Phelps — but that still doesn’t get him a pass for pretending to be the biggest d-bag in the pool. He is pretending … right?”
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Bodysurfing the Boom Boom Room 2012
“7-time Olympic gold medalist, Aaron Peirsol, reappers from the mist in this surf video.” Quote Gold Medal Mel on Facebook
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CC photo #49: Japanese fans at Roma 2009
Photo taken from the athletes’ stand at the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships.
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MSS: Matt Grevers and Annie Chandler
Matt Grevers’ surprise proposal to longtime girlfriend Annie Chandler has been the talk of the swimming community for the past week, and the happy couple join today’s edition of The Morning Swim Show to relive the experience. Grevers talks about the planning that went into the proposal, which started last December when he spent time with Chandler’s father over Christmas, asking permission and everything :-)
