Phelps gears up for 2012
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Ducklings stuck in swimming pool saved using sun chair
Very inventive, next time please shut off that lawn mover. Via Neatorama
Rescuing baby ducks from a pool
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BluBleu launches the MagicBath baby jacuzzi
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The Polaris 9400 Sport Robot cleans your 40-foot pool in 2 hours
So that is not a particularly long pool, but with that design and all that advanced technology crammed into its body, I’m all for it ! See Zodiac Pool Systems and Polaris, via Engadget
The ActivMotion Sensor in the 9400 uses an accelerometer, much like those used in electronic stability control systems in cars, or in smart phone and tablet devices to align the screen vertically or horizontally depending on the angle in which the device is held; the accelerometer automatically senses cleaner position. It measures force to determine 3-dimensional position, such as deep, shallow, horizontal or vertical, and adapts the pool cleaner for maximum cleaning action.
Polaris 9400 Sport: See it in Action
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Amazing shots from the 2012 underwater photo contest
Intrepid photographers submitted over 700 underwater images for the 2012 Underwater Photography Contest and an adorable red sea slug grinning for the camera was awarded the contest’s star, see International Business Times. Personally, I think that smug-looking sperm whale is way more adorable! :-D -
CC photo #114: The NEG 2012 group photo (opposite direction)
So this is Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Association, taking a group photo of us all (minus him) just before our foreign friends boarded the busses to the airport (yes, I’m an ass showing you this photo instead of his :-). That rock behind him is Faroese artist Tróndur Patursson’s sculpture “Stone with seven hinges“, exemplifying the primal forces in nature and in the Nordic countries when working together. Those grill things are the new lighting around our national soccer field, so tall that they unfortunately seem to creep into every outdoor picture in our capitol these days.
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Three drunk Aussies break into SeaWorld, swim with dolphins, steal a penguin
“Dirk the Penguin had a frightening ordeal. Police say after waking up with the penguin, one of the suspects panicked and let him go in a waterway known to have sharks. Witnesses who found Dirk say something chased him out of the water. Once he got on land, he was chased by a dog before being rescued. ‘He, eh, he was quite distressed, he was quite disheveled’”. Read ABC News, via SCAQ Blog
Between these and the 4 Aussies who fled a bar by jumping off a skyscraper, I’m seriously contemplating an “Only in Australia” – category :-P
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CC photo #113: Speaker’s corner at Hotel Føroyar
Just a teaser … they had set up a real soap box speaker’s corner at Hotel Føroyar yesterday evening, as part of the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching. And we actually had 4 people stand up on the box and speak, on tape and in my possession ;-)
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Deaf swimmer Marcus Titus gets hand signals reinstated at US Trials
This is great, USA Swimming decided Thursday to allow hand signals at the U.S. Olympic Trials to accommodate deaf swimmers at the start of the races, reversing the organization’s decision issued less than 48 hours earlier, more or less because of campaign on Facebook started byone of the nation’s top breaststroker and deaf athlete Marcus Titus. Read The Washington Post via Speed Endurance.
