Sir Richard Branson has pulled out of “The Swim” across the Irish Sea, after his luxury Carribean home was struck by lightning caused by Irene. Actress Kate Winslett was among 20 people who fled the paradise home on Necker Island, as it went up in flames. Pop star Ronan Keating has vowed to battle on despite of injuring his hamstring earlier this week, alongside other celebrities including Atomic Kitten singer Jenny Frost, all to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Read more here on The Telegraph.
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Garrett Weber-Gale keeps eating crazy stuff at Noma
First it was live prawns, and now some guy from Brazil produces a fly and says that it is edible. As if we didn’t learn already at kindergarden, not to eat stuff just because some other guy says that you can.How many of you would eat this? I did. Brazilian chef brought them to Copenhagen…had to throw one back. Gnar http://t.co/o6GBr7oless than a minute ago via Twitpic
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Here’s a tub of terrified sea lampreys
The sea lamprey is a parasitic eel-like fish found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, in the western Mediterranean Sea, in the Great Lakes and even in the Thames. It has a suction-cup like mouth full of sharp teeth, and it doesn’t take prisoners, but let’s them bleed to death or die from infection. It usually doesn’t attack humans, but oh well it has happened even to open water swimmers. Anyways, Michigan State University has developed an effective lamprey repellent, that gets tested in the video below.
Aand there is an underwater view as well. Really nice, via Geekosystem.
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Cannonball – Skating the Swimming Pool
This fad has to stop, “Once upon a time, Fresno was the California Dream. Own a car. Own a house. Own a pool. Everyone wanted it and the wonderful world of credit made it all possible. But now, with the foreclosure monster running wild, the dream is dry. Thousands of pools are festering in the hot Central Valley sun. For most people this is tragic. But for some, it’s an opportunity.” Via documentary.net.
Cannonball from California is a place. on Vimeo.
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Eamon Sullivan struggles with being a sex symbol
See Eamon, there are problems and then there are non-problems ;-)
“I wear less every day anyway so that wasn’t a problem,” Sullivan said. “It just wasn’t my thing, I had fun but there’s no way I’d ever do that as a career, it’s not me.”
Despite his chiselled physique and boy-next-door good looks, Sullivan is uncomfortable with his newfound sex symbol status.
“It’s a bit unexpected and not something that I really focus on,” he said. “Being a Perth boy it’s not something I’m used to.”
Read The West Australian.
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Sea lion attacks couple at Venice Beach
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 :-)