Experts believe it is a female Sei whale that became stranded after being carried up the north bank of the Humber Estuary by an exceptionally high tide while looking for food. Making contact with the bottom it has rolled onto its side and covered its blow hole, resulting in suffocation. Read for instance The Telegraph
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How to look hot when you get out of the ocean
Interesting, I have the lip gloss, the waterproof mascara and the vaseline, but don’t know about that one piece bathing suit.
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Kenrick Monk changes story, wasn’t run down but fell off skateboard
Shock – after originally claiming that he was the victim of a possible intentional hit-an-run accident while riding a bicycle yesterday, Kenrick Monk now admits to have made up the story, lied to the police and the public, and that actually he just fell of his skateboard. “I think the car just sounded a bit more elaborate”, he told at a press conference in Brisbane, “basically it just snowballed and snowballed more and more”.
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Hannah Fraser is a professional mermaid
Yeah, you can be that, if you are really good-looking and know how to dolphin kick. I think she wastes quite a bit of energy by letting her bum rise up during the downward kick, but who am I to criticize … I’m no mermaid.
Hannah Mermaid swims Bali shipwreck from Hannah Fraser on Vimeo.
Brave lady, swimming with mantas, humpback whales and great whites
Hannah Mermaid and Ocean Animals from Hannah Fraser on Vimeo.
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Kitajima and Duboscq both hard-pressed by Dale Oen’s dominance
I must confess that Alexander Dale Oen’s 100 breast victory in Shanghai was one of the most beautiful moments in my time in swimming, only days after the Utøya killings, and with the Norwegian swimming team trying to cope at the very hotel where we the Faroese were also staying. A terrible tragedy unleashing a furious first 50 meters, and a strong second half determined to win for his country.
Now it turns out that this swim hit both favorite Kosuke Kitajima and Hugues Duboscq really hard, almost into doubting that they could swim at all. “I don’t know how to get ahead. I’m afraid to go on”, Kitajima said according to asahi.com, but then turned to his old coach Norimasa Hirai, to get his technique back in order, enough to win silver in the 200. Duboscq didn’t even make it past the semi, his technique “completely broken down“, making him turn away from his long-time Greek coach Christos Paparrodopoulos.
Others must fall for one to conquer, but this was something else. Alex simply had to win for anything to make sense at that moment, and thankfully he did.
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USA Triathlon forms task force after 5 athletes die in races
USA Triathlon is creating a task force to determine if anything more can be done to prevent deaths such as those 5 that occurred at recent races in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Louisville, Ky. According to the research published last year in The Journal of American Medicine, there were 14 deaths among the almost 960,000 participants in U.S. triathlons between 2006 and mid-September 2008, a rate of 1.5 deaths per 100,000 participants. Of the 14 deaths, all but one occurred in the swim portion. Read The Washington Post
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The Morning Swim Show: Anthony Nesty
A good one here, Surinamese Anthony Nesty reliving the experience of winning 100 butterfly Olympic gold in 1988.
It was a true sensation, Nesty almost not being mentioned before after the swim, and Matt Biondi really throwing it away with one of the longest glides to the finish in Olympic history.
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Cullen Jones helps South Florida kids swim safe
According to a study by USA Swimming, 60 to 70 percent of African-American and Hispanic children don’t know how to swim. Cullen Jones and USA Swimming are trying to do something about that, with the Make a Splash campaign. From NBCMiami.com via Diversity in Aquatics.
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The London 2012 Aquatics Centre is (almost) ready
The Brits celebrated the completion of the London 2012 Aquatics Centre already in July, with one year to go until til London 2012 Olympics. The pictures are certainly impressive, but I won’t rest easy until there are some Omega OSB11 starting blocks at each end :-)
Here is Tom Daley performing the first official dive. Classy comment from Olympic medalist Leon Taylor: “As Tom were saying, he’s so exciting … so excited to dive here”.
Later there was this fun race with Olympic celebrities like Duncan Goodhew and Mark Foster. A bit of a mess with mixed strokes, ages and sexes, a foghorn as starting pistol and no starting blocks, but fun anyhow.