A photo from the Stockholm leg of the 2010 FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup circuit. Sign says (in Swedish) “Max 5 personer pÃ¥ bryggan!”, which in English translates directly to “Max 5 persons on the bridge!”. Problem only that many of these didn’t really read Swedish, maybe didn’t care that much if they got wet, and were not just ‘persons’ but ‘coaches’ (as in often at least 0,1 tonne of weight). Oh well, the bridge held up fine :-)
Michael Phelps spoke to the media before the 2012 Columbus Grand Prix
The following is an excerpt from an email from James Cameron to Don Walsh, co-pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, following Cameron’s successful (and record-breaking) 8,000-meter solo submarine dive in the “Deepsea Challenger” to the bottom of the New Britain Trench, Wednesday. Don Walsh will be joining the expedition in Guam, prior to Cameron’s 11,000-meter dive to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. See for instance The New York Times and read the entire email here on deepseachallenge.com
“Sitting down there at 27000′, alone in the dark, with no comms, no contact whatsoever with the world so far above, and nothing but the ingenuity of the engineering to get me back… it’s simultaneously scary and exhilarating. It’s the precipice we put ourselves on by choice, to test ourselves and our machines. I configured the cameras to get a good shot of the weights coming off and hitting the seafloor in 3D, but I can’t say I spent an undue amount of time on the lighting. I wanted to see those babies jettisoned as quick as possible. It’s a good feeling when 350kg comes off, with the characteristic “SHOONK†as the weight carriages run down the slide-rails.”
Joe Roebuck added the 200 IM to his Olympic program today with a new personal best time of 1:58.16 today, ahead of also qualifying James Goddard in 1:58.42. Francesca Halsall won the 100 freestyle with a 53.57, well within the qualification standard, with Amy Smith also qualifying in 54.01, and Rebecca Turner qualifying for the relay in 54.83. Stacy Tadd qualified in the 200 breaststroke with a 2:26.63. Read more here on swimming.org
It’s official, Diana Nyad will try again this summer to swim from Cuba to Florida.
About 30 dolphins stranded and were saved by local people at Arraial do Cabo (Brazil) in the morning at 8:00 AM on March 5th 2012. And Gerd Traue was there to film the entire thing.
This summer, Americans, will be able to watch the entire Olympic Games as they happen for the first time ever, on NBC Olympics using YouTube’s technology back-end. That’s over 3,000 hours of coverage available for computers and mobile devices, live and on-demand. But alas, since NBC only controls digital rights for the United States, I guess the rest of us will have to find other solutions. TNW via PCWorld
Internet for teams at the Budapest 2010 European Aquatics Championships was provided by parking this big bus inside the team area, complete with computers and everything. Best service I ever saw, maybe boosted by the fact that so few of us seemed to realize it was there :-)
Behold the Deepsea Challenger, a one-man submersible craft that in a few weeks will take filmmaker James Cameron into the deepest point in the ocean – Challenger Deep in the Pacific’s Mariana Trench – as only the third human to visit that place since Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh back in 1960. Millionaire adventurer Chris Welsh is also planning do go down there later this year, in his sexy sub “Scarlett”.
National Geographic News via boingboing, follow the expedition on facebook.com/deepseachallenge
