Linda Paganelli, Stefan Randig and Jacques de Vos head out to ‘The Caves’ just south of Dahab. Despite being an overcast, winter January day the dive itself still turned out to be awesome…
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Armstrong goes back to his triathlon roots, bests all but one
“I was very surprised, to say the least,” Lance Armstrong said after his incredible runner-up finish at today’s Ironman 70.3 Panama. “It was a completely new experience for me. I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know strategically how these races go down, so I tried to feel my way out on the bike and basically take a crash course in 70.3s.”
Read more here on ironman.com
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Night swimming with sea monsters
This brave National Geographic reporter dove down into skools of man-sized Humboldt squids aka diablo rojo (‘red devil’).
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There is something in the abyss that says “quack”
Marine ecologist Rodney Rountree modified a few mp3-players into waterproof, deep-sea recording devices, attached them to crab traps and sent them 2000 feet below the ocean’s surface for 24 hours. As expected they heard whales and stuff that they could identify, but also frequent samples of at least 12 deep-sea sounds that they couldn’t identify, including something sounding like a bird whistling and duck-like quacks. They think it is deep-sea fish communicating, I have another theory (see picture to the right). -
Michele Tomasi did it, 130m under ice in one breath !
Old record was Şahika Ercümen 110 meters in the Weissensee lake in Austria back in February, new record is Michele Tomasi 130 meters in Lago Santo in Italy.
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Cold Power North Bondi Classic
Something going down at North Bondi, see results and stuff at www.oceanswims.com
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Ice Castles
This is something they call The Ice Castles at Silverthorne, located in Colorado, USA. Beautiful, but I’m sure it looks more romantic and warm than it is :-)
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Michele Tomasi to attempt longest dive under ice today
Sunday 12th February 2012, freediver Michele Tomasi will attempt to break the current Guinness record of swimming a distance under ice (with monofin), at Lago Santo in Val Cembra (Trento – Italy).The record stands at 110 meters, swum by Turkish freediver Åžahika Ercümen in the Weissensee lake in Austria back in February 2011.
Follow the record attempt here on the Rane Neri website. Via Deeper Blue
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Diving with the deadly irukandji
A funny read, this thing on GadlingNot more than two seconds after reaching the bottom, however, his eyes excitedly bulged and appeared to double in size as seen through the fog of his mask. Slowly, he raised a focused finger at something apparently located behind me.
For anyone who hasn’t spent much time underwater, regardless of how comfortable you are in the ocean, you never, ever, want to see someone with wide eyes pointing directly behind you. Music starts playing, drums start thumping, and you can almost feel the teeth sinking into the nape of your neck.