Investigators of the drowning accident last week admit that the water was so murky, that the Veteran’s Memorial Swimming Pool shouldn’t have been opened. 36-year-old Marie Joseph drowned after using a water slide there, but wasn’t found until she surfaced again two days later, even though the pool remained open and used by dozens of swimmers, and was visited by health inspectors on Monday and Tuesday. Read Swimming Pool Safety News.
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Belgrade 2011 Live Streaming is alive (!)
At last, live video feed from the Tašmajdan pool in Beograd. The speaker announced a moment ago that there were 5 minutes left of the warm-up. Go watch!
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Feature Swim РLars Fr̦lander
A The Race Club video from when Lasse Frölander in April 2011 visited the Keys with his swim club from Sweden. That starting block looks a bit wobbly.
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Dutch guys trying out the Plunge For Distance too
The new hot thing to do, apparently, after Wolverines and Wu Peng showed us how. Sebastiaan Verschuren films, Joost Reijns plunges. Now, who will tell them that the dive board is an illegal, technical improvement? ;-)
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Woohoo, Magnus Jákupsson is in a European semi-final (!)
Our guy Magnus Jákupsson managed to swim a new Faroese record of 25.00 in the 50 butterfly this morning at the 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships in Belgrade, qualifying for the semi-finals this afternoon in 12th best time. He swam in the very first heat, having no official long-course time since last year because of our problems with having no long-course pool in the Faroe Islands. Magnus is only a first-year junior yet.
(Magnus and his father Jákup at the Tašmajdan pool in Belgrade. It is Magnus to the right)
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Skaters mess up a perfectly good swimming pool
I don’t like this trend, with skaters and bikers taking over our pools ! ;-) Via neatorama.com
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Water shot at 7,000 FPS
Video of water at 7,000 frames per second. No wonder we love it. Via geekologie.com.
Team Ghost – High Hopes from 16ar on Vimeo.
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4-year-old girl swims 2000 meters in just under 2 hours
Tae Smith only started swimming lessons five months ago, for safety reasons to learn the basics, and now practices for just an hour a week. Her instructor saw her as a natural on day one, and now thought she was ready to take the 600 meters distance badge, already an impressive achievement for a four-year-old. But Tae begged to carry on, until she was persuaded to stop at 2000 meters. On July 23, she hopes to repeat the feat and set a Guinness World Record, rasing money for the Macmillan Cancer Trust. You can donate too, at justgiving.com/tae-smith. Via MailOnline.