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  • Woman allergic to water unable to cry or swim

    Dec 19, 2011

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    rokur
    in Health

    25-year-old Katie Dell suffers from a rare disease called aquagenic urticarial that makes her skin react with pain and rashes if drenched in water. She left her job as a dance trainer because sweat causes her rashes, she has to rush her baths, cannot cry and cannot do the dishes. Living in Britain, it has a great impact on her social life, as she has to frequently cancel her appointments due to rain. I tell you, here in the Faroes, she’d be dead. Via Emirates 24/7

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    Picture courtesy of onlinewoman, cc by-sa-sa 2.0

  • Breakfast with Ed Moses

    Dec 19, 2011

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    rokur
    in Fun

    Nice and simple, via the17thman

  • The Tank Bangers – Our Blue

    Dec 18, 2011

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    rokur
    in Nature

    Divers in Egypt have created this remarkable music video (and track) reflecting on the wonders of the underwater world – and how we need to support those who for for its conservation. Warning, quite graphic segment in it, with a live shark having its fins cut off before being thrown into the sea again. Buy it online to support marine conservation work, or donate on www.thetankbangers.org. Via Divernet.

    “So here we are. At the finish line. 10 month in the making. 7 minutes long. It has taken hundred of dives and thousands of takes. It has cost us a small fortune and most of our sanity. But it is done. We hope you enjoy it.”

  • Cseh watches his loss to Phelps at the 2008 Olympics for energy

    Dec 18, 2011

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    rokur
    in Competition, Training

    When Laszlo Cseh finds himself tired from travel or training, he cues a video of the 200-meter-butterfly final at the 2008 Olympics. Read The New York Times.

    “Sometimes when I go to training in the morning and I get tired or I want to sleep more and I feel I need some boost, I watch it,” Cseh said. He added, “I watch it a lot of times.”

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  • Dear Jón, you can have that tattoo now !

    Dec 17, 2011

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    rokur
    in Competition, Fun

    Very internal joke, so much that he doesn’t even know about it! Got this picture from Jón before the 2011 Duel in the Pool finals this evening, and my first thought was “Jón, don’t get that tattoo!”. Reflecting on the miserable performance of the Europeans, yesterday evening. He told me that it was jet lag and general tiredness, but well, Pál somehow pulled through! :-)

  • Pál 7:36.24 and champ of the Duel in the Pool 800 free

    Dec 17, 2011

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Pál Joensen won the men’s 800 freestyle at the 2011 Duel in the Pool a minute ago, in a new Faroese and Nordic record of 7:36.24. Convincing victory too, as USA’s Michael Klueh was No. 2 in 7:39.90, and Denmark’s Mads Glæsner No. 3 in 7:42.27. Pál’s former Faroese record was from back in the supersuit days, 7:43.38 from the European Championships in Istanbul 2009, the Nordic of Mads Glæsner 7:39.45 from the same event. See result list here.

  • What, you enter the Speedo Fastskin3 through the armhole ?!?

    Dec 17, 2011

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    rokur
    in Equipment, Technology

    Love it when engineers mess with our conventions (as an engineer myself :-). And by the way … this need for the model to wear an in principle illegal modesty suit to make the video ‘safe for work’, is a real and practical problem in the locker rooms! If the suits are designed to take several minutes to put on, then you should be allowed to have some kind of (maybe standard) modesty suit within the tech suit. Via scaq.blogspot.com.

  • LIVE stream from Salnikov Cup on russwimming.ru

    Dec 17, 2011

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Beat that USA, the Salnikov Cup has right now been streamed live and open to all here on russwimming.ru, featuring top swimmers like Alexander Dale Oen, Cameron van der Burgh, Paul Biedermann and Britta Steffen. And will be streamed again here tomorrow at 17:00 local time, that is 13:00 GMT/UTC. See result from today’s events here, and www.salnikovcup.ru for other info. I for one declare Russia as winner of this weekend’s live internet swimming events!

  • Elevating pool is both very 007 and good for the disabled

    Dec 17, 2011

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    rokur
    in Fun, Safety, Swimming Pools, Technology

    Screen Shot 2013-05-22 at 10.52.29 PMHidden Water Pools founder Stefan Kanetis designed this system to aid his mother Delicia, who for many years was a professional dancer, but later paid the price with severe arthritis and muscle damage in her lower extremities. Her doctor suggested that in order to avoid the wheelchair, she needed to exercise daily in a warm body of water over 92 degrees (Fahrenheit, I hope, that’s 33 degrees Celcius). But she had trouble getting in and out of a pool. Cue her loving son, Delicia has now her very own James Bond thing in the backyard, and is doing very well. Via Neatorama

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