The Bora Bora Liquid Festival is a 7-day celebration of sports and ocean-based endurance events taking place on Bora Bora, Polynesia’s most beautiful island atoll. 2010 marked the introduction of the Bora Bora 5km swim, which is fast becoming one of the festival’s highlights, unpredictable and challenging since the change the course each time the event is held, and increase it by 1K (making 2011’s event officially 6K). Video looks good, especially from the viewpoint of those of us who seem to get only wind and rain these days. Via The Daily News of Open Water Swimming.
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Push for WA ocean pools to keep swimmers safe from sharks
The Western Australian Government should spend $15 million on three ocean pools to give people a shark-free saltware option, the Opposition says. This after three fatal shark attacks in WA in seven weeks, prompting a proposal of “practical engineering solutions” to safeguard swimmers. Read thewest.com.au. Former world champion open water swimmer Shelley Taylor-Smith says after moving back to Perth three years ago after 17 years in Sydney:
“One of the frustrations in living in Perth is you can’t go for a swim 24-7 if you want to like you can on the east coast where there are all these lovely rock pools that are lit up at night”
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World’s longest swimming pool concept wins Holcim Gold Award
The 3rd International Holcim Awards for sustainable construction projects from across Europe were recently announced at a ceremony in Milan, with the German architectural firm realities:united taking first prize for its Flussbad proposal. We’re talking transforming a strech of the River Spree in central Berlin into a 745 meter “swimming pool”, purified naturally by a an upper 1.8-hectare reed bed. Via gizmag.com
(image: united:realities, cc by-nc-nd 3.0)
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Shark Pool: Official Trailer
Please someone, listen to the geek !
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FINIS Announces SwiMP3® 2G, an Underwater MP3 Player
FINIS has announced the immediate availability of the SwiMP3® 2G, an upgraded version of their award-winning underwater MP3 player that holds up to 2GB of music, twice as much as the original version, for a total of 30 hours or approximately 500 songs. Utilizing bone-conducting technology to deliver clear sound underwater, ear bud free. See finisinc.com. -
USA Swimming launches Deck Pass
We’ve heard about it before, and now it is officially launced. USA Swimming’s Deck Pass, a new online and mobile application that lets swimmers track their best times, set goals and earn digital patches, share milestones with friends and family on Facebook, engage with USA Swimming, and that works as a tool for coaches too. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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Adlington makes a splash with 4-year-old Tae Smith
We heard about 4-year-old Tae Smith in July, who after only five months managed to take not only the planned 600 meters distance badge, but carried on until she was persuaded to stop at 2000 meters. Here is a British Gas Big Dip video with her and Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington. Via the17thman
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Interviewing Dr Homayun Gharavi – Part 2
So, after a quick change of camera (and Home-made solution to secure the additional camera to the incompatible tripod by using packaging from the recently bought batteries), we go on about Home’s visit to the Faroe Islands, digging deeper into the project of Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason in Suðuroy. I ask what Dr. Gharavi thinks of Pál still training in his 25-meter home pool in Vágur, and what he thinks about the plan to build a 50-meter pool on this remote island, rather than on the (relatively) more densely populated North mainland. See also Part 1.
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The new GoPro HD HERO2 promo video says BUY ME !
I’m not affiliated with GoPro, and don’t even own one (yet). But by golly … if I wanted one before, it is really really bad now :-)