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My College Apartments vs My D1 Athlete Teammates (Cal Men’s Swimming) | Kyle Millis Vlogs
Behind the Scenes Berkeley apartment tour featuring the best D1 athlete apartment in the NCAA – the Cal Men’s Swim Team! Hear about some of Kyle Millis’ Berkeley apartment horror stories and see some of his college swimming teammate’s amazing houses. You won’t see this behind-the-scenes look at D1 Swimmer’s apartments anywhere else online, including Zillow!
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Sign of the Times: Wheeling Park Athlete Helps Fellow Swimmer | WTRF
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Experimental Wearable Pops Its Top to Send Drowning Alerts
While lifeguards serve a vital purpose, it can sometimes be difficult for them to keep an eye on all the swimmers, all the time. An experimental new device has been designed to help, by sending an alert if its wearer is drowning.
Currently in rather chunky prototype form, the wrist-worn gadget is being developed by a team at Australia’s Macquarie University. It’s called APPTRAKK, and it incorporates sensors that monitor the wearer’s heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, and movement patterns, along with the depth at which it’s currently located and the amount of time that it’s been there.
All of this data is continually processed by an AI-based onboard operating system, which determines if the combined readings indicate that the person may be drowning.
If such proves to be the case, a Wi-Fi transmitter module on the device pops loose and floats to the surface. It then transmits a signal to an app on the lifeguard’s paired smartphone or tablet, which both sounds an alarm and displays the swimmer’s location in the pool. Sending that signal from the main submerged device isn’t likely to work, as radio waves don’t travel well through the water.
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I Went Wild Swimming Across London & This Is What Happened | Global Triathlon Network
We’re always up for a challenge however this is a bit new to us! Heather is in London for ‘The Swimmer’ an event that takes in some of the city’s wild open spaces and swim locations! But to make this event more unique, you have to run between each lido and pond! This one was cold!
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Matthias Schweighöfer Talks the Swimmers, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and Milli Vanilli | Collider Interviews
In Netflix’s The Swimmers, the sophomore feature film of director Sally El Hosaini, Hosaini and co-writer Jack Thorne (Enola Holmes 2) chronicle the harrowing journey of Syrian refugees Yusra and Sara Mardini, played by Nathalie and Manal Issa, respectively. Based on true events, The Swimmers depicts the sisters’ inspiring odyssey from their war-torn home country to Germany where Yusra trained to be an Olympic swimmer, defying all impossible odds in their way. In the film, rising star, producer, and director Matthias Schweighöfer portrays real-life swim coach Sven Spannenkrebs who helped prepare Yusra to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
During his interview with Collider’s Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub, Schweighöfer shares the importance of telling the Mardinis’ story “about hopes and dreams and passion,” about Hosaini’s vision for the film, and working alongside her and the Issa’s to do the story justice. He also talks about working with director Christopher Nolan on Oppenheimer, as well as his role in Netflix’s Heart of Stone with Gal Gadot, and his own directing career, teasing a new project in the works.
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Secret Santa Helps Young Widow Whose Husband Died While Swimming | East Idaho News
The EastIdahoNews.com team is busy helping a local Secret Santa give $1 million to deserving people in eastern Idaho this holiday season. Every day, from now until Christmas, we will post videos of the recipients being surprised with these life-changing gifts.
Sierra’s husband, William, passed away suddenly on Labor Day from cardiac arrest. One minute he was going down the slide laughing with his kids and the next he was no longer with us. This was so unexpected.
Sierra and William have four children under the age of 12. He husband was in the middle of finishing their basement when he passed away. She’s been unable to finish the project for her family to have room.
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Locals Help 90-Year-Old Blind Swimmer Continue Morning Tradition | ABC News
Community spirit is alive and well in the WA town of Albany, with locals rallying to help a 90-year-old blind woman continue her daily ocean swims.
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Thorpey Names His Greatest Swimmers of All Time | Wide World of Sports