An elderly couple out for a swim off Venice Beach Thursday evening found themselves the victims of an attack by a sea lion, reports KTLA.
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ITN: Gaddafi swimming pool becomes rebel playground
Libyan rebels have stormed the Tripoli house of Colonel Gaddafi’s daughter, Aisha, swimming in her pool and lounging on her sofas. Read more here on ITN.co.uk.
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Woman fishes leg out of lake, lost 3 years earlier by a swimmer
A woman fishing near her home on Lake Ida in Minnesota said she reeled in a prosthetic leg three years after it was lost by a swimmer. She tries to track down the leg’s owner, who turns out to be another resident at Lake Ida who lost her leg while swimming three years ago. Leg and leg owner are now reunited. Read UPI.com. -
Wild swimming with Martin Strel in Slovenia
Ha ha ha, funny intro to this article on The Guardian:
“You are going to meet Martin Strel?” a woman says to me in Ljubljana.
“You know who he is?” I ask.
“Yes, of course. He is famous in Slovenia … But a lot of people here think he is a bit weird.”
That doesn’t surprise me. I know about Martin’s epic river swims, which have included passing dead bodies in the Yangtze, and I’ve seen the film Big River Man, which charts the bouts of drinking and madness that punctuated his 66-day progress along the Amazon in 2007.
“But weird in a funny way, right?”
“No,” she says. “Just weird.
I watched the “Big River Man” documentary myself, and I too think that he is weird :-)
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Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world
The Kurishio Sea Tank in the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, featuring whale sharks, mantas and the occasional diver. Beautiful, soothing, mesmerising, they still look a bit trapped, though.
Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.
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Swimming with a (dead) giant squid
While filming whales off of the Canary Islands recently, a documentary crew discovered a rare marine find – the body of an Architheuthis (giant squid) bobbing in open water. They reckon that it was an adult female about 8 metres long with intact tentacles, where the largest specimens can be about 18 to 20 metres in total length, with eyes like a handball. Nice. Antena3.com via io9.com.
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Dream Machine – Fiji Water 2011
Tatiana and Verda enjoying the water in and around Fiji. Yes, we are in the GoPro zone again, capturing beautiful video no matter if it is in, on or above water, or in the transition between these places.
DREAM MACHINE – FIJI WATER – 2011 from Tatiana Howard on Vimeo.
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Gemma Spofforth breaks nose and toe in bicycling accident
Britain’s Olympic medal hope Gemma Spofforth fell of her bike yesterday evening, breaking her toe and nose in the fall. They are keeping her at the hospital overnight in case she has a concussion. Looking at the picture, she might have broken a front tooth too, poor girl.Doing much better!! Keeping me in over night incase I have a concussion… 15 stitches, broken toe and broken nose…  http://t.co/XSEZgYKless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone
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Why did CAS burn Subirats and not Cielo ?
In short, Venezuela’s short course 50 meter butterfly world champion Albert Subirats missed the world championships last month because he was reported to have missed three anti-doping tests (a sanction that is now totally lifted) while now 50 meter butterfly long course world champion César Cielo and 2 other Brazilians got a last-minute express trial and then only a warning for without doubt having taken an illegal drug.
Therefore good question by Craig Lord here on SwimNews.com:
The questions for CAS and all involved in seeking fairness and more rigour in the anti-doping system is clear:
- why, when the Subirats case was known before the Cielo case, did CAS not rush to sit in session in order that the Venezuelan  could swim in Shanghai last month (different treatment for differest swimmers, once more)
