Architect James Law designed this skyscraping residential complex called Aquaria Grande for real estate company Wadhwa Group in Mumbai, India, including a series of beautiful but I’m sure also vertigo-inducing swimming pools extending at the edge of each apartment’s balcony. They are actually building the thing, see thewadhwagroup.com. Via mymodernmet.com.
Footage from a Golden Gate Bridge Swim in October 2011, swimming with a GoPro attached to the swimmer’s back.
The African penguin Scooter didn’t molt this year, which means she didn’t grow the new feathers that weave into a watertight coat, and the zookeepers at Children’s Zoo at Celebration Square in Saginaw, Michigan therefore had to put this cape on her, in order to keep her from going into hypothermia. Californians have had success with a custom-made wet suit triggering the molting process, but Scooter goes for the shabby-chic Hungarian colors. Read more here on mlive.com
An underwater variant of the Google Street View service will from today begin giving web users an unprecedented photographic tour of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – and another reef in Bermuda will soon be getting similar treatment. Read more here on New Scientist and visit Catlin Seaview Survey.
Our friend John Tierney is apparently in Rome these days, and those nice Roma09 posters still hanging in that magnificent Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto. Very nice :-)
A young Faroese swimmer at the annual Køge Open at Køge Svømmeland, Denmark, sort of the ‘B-meet’ of the Danish Short Course Championships, strengthened by participation from foreign clubs. Funny how time flies … to do well there was almost the peak of our international ambitions back in 2007, and now it is London 2012.
Early morning hours at Curl Curl sea pool on Sydney’s northern beaches. Soundtrack is “The Swimming Song” by Loudon Wainwright III. Love it.
Curl curl from Jason Wingrove on Vimeo.
I like the morale in this video, via the17thman
One-year-old Lucky, a penguin at the Santa Barbara Zoo, had one leg that wasn’t growing right, making him walk with a limp. Zookeepers tried a splint first, but that interfered with his ability to swim, and they therefore contacted local shoe company Teva. Read more here on Nothing To Do With Arbroath
