26-year-old American open water swimmer Fran Crippen lost his life today during the FINA Open Water 10K World Cup event in Dubai. He had been showing signs of slowing down during the third lap of five, possibly because the water was too hot, but it was only after all the other competitors had finished, that teammate Alex Meyer realized that Crippen was missing. Competing swimmers and divers went back to search for him, and found him two hours later unconscious just before the final buoy. Read Lane 9 News.
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Pereira and Alshammar lead the World Cup
Brazil’s Thiago Pereira and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar lead the World Cup competition by a mile, now after the first 4 of 7 meets, with 88 and 88 point ahead of runners-up 43 and 50 respectively, and $20.000 and $16.500 in earned prize money. See score and prize money tally here on www.scsom.se.
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Marshall videotapes his races
American backstroker Peter Marshall videotaped his 50 and 100 meter races at the World Cup 2010 event in Beijing, using a GoPro videocamera.
Here’s the 100 backstroke …
Beijing Race from Peter Marshall on Vimeo.
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Site reactivated
Sorry, been busy with other projects, and therefore fell behind with this one. Will have to do better ! :-)
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Severinsen first man to hold breath for 20 minutes
Stig Åvall Severinsen set a new Guinness World Record today, completing a 20 minute, 10 second static breath-hold after breathing pure oxygen for 12 minutes. This was in a shark tank at the Kattegatcentret oceanarium in Greenå, Denmark. Read for instance deeperblue.com
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10x1min Sprint As Good As Hours Of Endurance?
Researchers at McMaster University in Canada believe that the body can get as much benefit from ten short but intensive bursts of exercise, as it can from hours of moderate traning. HIT or “high intensive interval training” involves running or cycling (or swimming?) at almost maximum effort for a minute and then resting for about a minute before repeating the process around 10 times. (more…)
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Reuse Your Pool As A Dryland Area
Belgium-based Hydrofloors enable you to reuse your pool as a dryland area, by elevating the pool floor vertically, and collapsing the pool steps. The height of the pool may be elevated to any pre-selected water depth, and it even saves energy cost for heating, when fully elevated.
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Severinsen Sets World Record Under Ice
Danish freediver Stig Åvall Severinsen set a new world record last Saturday the 6th of March, swimming 72 meters under ice in one breath. This was in lake Knudsoe near Ry in Denmark. The former world record was 57.5 meters, swum by Wim Hof of the Netherlands in March 2001.
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Site Relaunched
Right, I have now switched content management system here, from Drupal to WordPress. All content has been migrated, except for a few spam comments, and I have tried to recreate the rest of the functionality as best as possible. With the biggest problem being, that the permalinks have changed a bit, from listing the month name as numbers instead of month short name (for instance “12” instead of “dec”). (more…)