German Wasserwacht Spremberg arranged a 48 hour swim just recently, inviting amongst others Danish (real) long distance swimmer Grith Sigsgaard. She won and set a 125 kilometer world record, which is about 2.6 kilometers an hour, every hour for two days. If anyone is interested, they will be arranging a 24 hour (sprint?) swim on 18 – 19 July 2011. Via SwimNews.dk.
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Ian Thorpe at the Royal Wedding
Ian Thorpe is said to be “extremely humbled and overwhelmed” at receiving an invitation from the future King of England, who he has met only once at a Kirribilli House reception in 2009 when the Prince expressed an interest in Thorpe’s Fountain of Youth charity. Via scaq.blogspot.com and dailytelegraph.com.au.
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Sewer to be swimming pool in Norway
Norway’s Forsvarsbygg will announce on 2 May, who gets to rent the old sewer facilities under Festningsplassen in Oslo, very intriguingly described as more or less not used since 1979. Two cinema companies want to build Norway’s biggest cinema there, while the Norwegian Swimming Federation want to turn them into a 4000 square metre big water recreational facility, including a 4-lane 50 meter pool for training, a 50 meter pool for education and fun, a zone for diving, and a zone for just relaxing in. Via aftenposten.no.
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Heart plungers keep air flowing better during CPR
The ResQPump works like a toilet plunger, but while decompressing it can draw air back into the lungs. The ResQPOD, cleared by the FDA in 2003, regulates airflow by creating suction in the chest, which draws blood up into the brain. A study led by Tom Aufderheide, professor of emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, had EMTs and doctors using the tools in combination in seven U.S. locations. Together the pump and pod increased patient survival from 6 percent to 9. And yes, the ResQPump is definitely inspired by toilet plungers, as it was invented after a patient suffering a heart attack was saved when his family administered CPR using one. Read PopSci.com.
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Videos from the 1st Open Water Safety Conference
U.S: Masters Swimming has posted videos here on Vimeo from the Protecting the Athletes: Open Water Swimming Safety Conference 19-20 March 2011 in San Francisco. This first video is Steve Munatones and Rob Butcher opening the conference.
Protecting Athletes: Open Water Safety Conference – Introduction from usmastersswimming on Vimeo.
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Swimmer delays brain surgery to help team
Ouch, Brea Olinda’s Alec Boliver has delayed his brain surgery until Friday, so he could swim in Wednesday’s meet against Villa Park. Read ocvarsity.com.
Even the most in-shape swimmers feel pain during races, but Boliver encounters more than sore muscles.
He has cysts in the central part of his brain.
The cysts, and the pressure they create, have caused Boliver severe headaches for about three years.
The pounding increases when Boliver holds his breath under water, something he does regularly and strategically as a swimmer.
But Boliver hasn’t let the pain stop him from racing.
Read more here on ocvarsity.com.
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There is a race to reach the bottom of the ocean ?
It has been 50 years since anyone has been to the deepest point on the ocean floor, but now “Avatar” director James Cameron wants to go there, and British billionaire Richard Branson, and Triton Submarines CEO Bruce Jones, all in different projects. Cameron has commisioned a submarine made from high-tech composite materials, Branson will be ‘flying’ in his Virgin Oceanic craft, and Jones is patenting a special sphere made of glass, which they say has advantages over synthetics. Notice the obligatory evil squid reference.
“Glass under compression gets stronger,” said Rayotek CEO Bill Raggio. “You can hire some giant squid to come over with a sledgehammer and just start bashing away on that glass sphere. And it won’t hurt it.”
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Should you wait a half hour after eating to go swimming?
Nice one that he didn’t have time to put his stethoscope down, before going on air :-)
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SwimNews gets an iPad/iPhone app
The new (free) SwimNews.com news reader App for iPhone, iPad, iPod is now available at the iTunes store. Via SwimNews.com.
