We’ve seen others do it before, but now it is Tancock ! :-)
Liam Tancock Swimming Cap Trick
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GoPro Wi-Fi BacPac will allow us to live stream 50 remote controlled GoPro’s at a time
GoPro’s highly anticipated Wi-Fi BacPac and Wi-Fi Remote Combo Kit are promised to be released in March 2012 for $99, that will allow us to simultaneusly record to onboard SD-card and live stream over Wi-Fi from 50 cameras at a time, remote controlled via the Wi-Fi Remote or with a free GoPro App available for both Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.
OK, I’m not 100% sure that we will be able to have all 50 GoPro’s set up to to the same live stream, and am quite sure that most Wi-Fi nets will be hard pressed if all 50 live stream simultaneously. But just imagine if we can switch between let’s say just 8 of them, and somehow have streaming sound from a quality external microphone also … that is a major live streaming setup in a box ! :-)
(My favorite photo gadget reporter Olivia reviewing the GoPro Hero2 HD, mentioning the Wi-Fi BacPac at 2:13)
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Wow, frozen sea ice flowers are beautiful
If I understand this correctly, this is something called ‘surface hoar frost‘, where saturated water vapors coming up through cracks in sea ice freeze and crystallize with salt on the ice serving as a nucleus for the frozen vaporized water. A dominant source of sea salt aerosol in Antactica, that scientist suspect may be main cause of tropospheric ozone depletion during the polar sunrise. Oh well, whatever, it is first and foremost absolutely beautiful ! :-)
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CC photo #45: Kristina Elin Thomsen took down 2 Faroese records this weekend
Kristina Elin Thomsen from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag is only 13 years old and not very tall at that, but still blew away two relatively long-standing Faroese senior records this weekend at the Ægir-meet in Klaksvík. First with a 2:25.36 in the 200 meter short course butterfly (yeah I know, we need to improve on that), and then with a 1:03.44 in the 100. The 200 butterfly was the longest standing record in our book, from May 2005, and the 100 butterfly from the supersuited days back in 2009.
Here is her 100 butterfly swim:
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Learning to Swim with Michael Klim
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Paganelli, Randig and de Vos freediving the Dahab caves
Linda Paganelli, Stefan Randig and Jacques de Vos head out to ‘The Caves’ just south of Dahab. Despite being an overcast, winter January day the dive itself still turned out to be awesome…
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Armstrong goes back to his triathlon roots, bests all but one
“I was very surprised, to say the least,” Lance Armstrong said after his incredible runner-up finish at today’s Ironman 70.3 Panama. “It was a completely new experience for me. I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t know strategically how these races go down, so I tried to feel my way out on the bike and basically take a crash course in 70.3s.”
Read more here on ironman.com
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Night swimming with sea monsters
This brave National Geographic reporter dove down into skools of man-sized Humboldt squids aka diablo rojo (‘red devil’).
Night Swimming with Sea Monsters | Ocean Soul
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There is something in the abyss that says “quack”
Marine ecologist Rodney Rountree modified a few mp3-players into waterproof, deep-sea recording devices, attached them to crab traps and sent them 2000 feet below the ocean’s surface for 24 hours. As expected they heard whales and stuff that they could identify, but also frequent samples of at least 12 deep-sea sounds that they couldn’t identify, including something sounding like a bird whistling and duck-like quacks. They think it is deep-sea fish communicating, I have another theory (see picture to the right).
