Italy’s Alessandro Terrin (breaststroke), Mirco di Tora (backstroke), Marco Belotti (butterfly) and Filippo Magnini (freestyle) posing for a photo after the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships record setting 4×50 medley time of 1:32.91.
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Wahooo headbands monitor how long swimmers are submerged
The Wahoooยฎ Swim Monitor System is a drowning detection system invented for dark water facilities (but undoubtedly usable also in clearer water), that monitors how long submerged swimmers are under water, and then alerts the lifeguard if the situation gets dangerous. First, when a swimmer is submerged for a preset period of time (considered by experts to be “precarious”) a discreet Yellow Alert serves as initial notification of a potential event. If the swimmer remains submerged for an additional preset period of time (considered to be “at risk” by experts), a more urgent Red Alert is indicated.
Simple and effective
Via The Life Files
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Tom Daley & Team GB lip sync ‘Sexy and I know it’
As Tom Willdridge puts it on the Speed Endurance Swimming Blog: “While swimmers are busy training hard, the divers are dancing about on a beach. Typical.”
Tom Daley & Team GB — Sexy And I Know It (LMFAO Lip Sync)
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Matthew Smyth talks about freediving, yoga and meditation
Matt Smyth of the Freediving center “Apneista” in Amed/Bali, explains what freediving, yoga and meditation have in common and how they can improve our lifes.
Freediving TV – Matthew Smyth is talking about Freediving, Yoga and Meditation
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Oklahoma Swimming hosts swim clinic for Native Americans
On Jan. 21, 2012 Oklahoma Swimming held a clinic for Native Americans interested in swimming.
Oklahoma Swimming Hosts Swim Clinic for Native Americans
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Frozen sea creaks like if some monster was pushing it
Via Buzzfeed, the sound of frozen sea being pushed against the shore in Odessa, Ukraine.
ะะฐะบ ัะบัะธะฟะธั ะทะฐะผะตัะทัะตะต ะผะพัะต. ะะดะตััะฐ, ัะตะฒัะฐะปั 2012. / Frozen sea
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BIOTOP Natural Pools use plants instead of chlorine to keep water safe
Wow, interesting (and literally very ‘green’), an Austrian company called Biotop Natural Pool uses plants to create an ecosystem where the pool is teaming with life. Pool designs have separate swimming and plant-growing areas of equal size. The plants eat the algae, which would otherwise take over. Via Mike Elgan on Google+
Original Biotop Swimming-Teich – Deutsch
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CC photo #41: Geoff Huegill signing autographs in Stockholm
The kids have this fun tradition at the Stockholm leg of the FINA World Cup Tour, ‘fishing’ with their autographs books from the balcony. Here they’ve caught Geoff Huegill, gold winner in the 50 meter butterfly that year (2011).
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Crazy Norwegian ice skater is back (and on thin ice)
Last year’s video was, ehm, ‘interesting’, but now it is going too far, me thinks.
On thin ice 4