Swimmer's Daily

  • I hope everyone is enjoying the ISL Season 2, we sure are, here’s a fun little skit we done!

  • This PURPOSE FULL PLAY activity helps develop: “Manatee”, “Treasure Hunter”, and “Flying Fish”.

    * This activity will help the student realize that sinking is a challenge, and helps to develop trust and confidence in their buoyancy.
    * To achieve full FLYING FISH status, the student must be an independent swimmer, fearless in any depth.
    * This is a fun way to begin learning to retrieve toys off the floor of the deep end of the pool.

  • Rookie and veteran surfers including Sallie Fitzgibbons, Caroline Marks, Tatiana Weston-Webb, and Courtney Conlogue fight to stay in the game, as the eliminations pile up in the ISA World Surfing Games women’s competition.

  • Dubai’s ‘merman’ ready to go the distance for 25km

  • On Sunday, police in Western Australia called off their search for the body of a 52-year-old surfer, two days after he was seen being attacked by a shark. This puts the year’s shark attack tally at six—the highest number of people killed in unprovoked attacks since 1934.

    This number is well above Australia’s 50-year average of 1.02 deaths a year. Yet while fatalities are at an 86-year high, the number of unprovoked shark bites, 17, is more or less in line with the average over the past decade: meaning it’s not the number but rather the nature of the attacks that’s contributing to the uptick in deaths.

    “In some of the cases this year it sounds like the shark hung around and bit more than once, which is unusual behaviour for great white sharks,” Dr Blake Chapman, a marine biologist who examined shark neuroscience for her PhD, told Guardian Australia. “[And] when they bite more than once it’s more likely to be fatal as there’s more blood loss.”

    Dr Chapman noted that multiple bites could suggest the apex predators are starting to treat humans as prey. Another factor could be the weather.

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  • I take my pick of the 5 events I think the world record will most likely be broken in at the upcoming ISL Season 2 that starts tomorrow in Budapest.

  • Olympic swimmers race about 0.39 seconds faster in the evening than in the morning, and as insignificant as that fraction of a second may seem, gold medals are routinely won by slimmer margins.

    “The magnitude of the effect is pretty big,” said Renske Lok, PhD, a Stanford postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry and a circadian biologist. “The difference was amazing, considering that athletes train at all times of the day.”

    An article about her research was published this month in Scientific Reports.

    Best results at 5 p.m.

    Lok, who conducted the study with colleagues when she was at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, analyzed the swim times of athletes who reached the finals during the Athens, Beijing, London and Rio de Janeiro Olympic games.

    They focused on swimming because it presents fewer variables than other sports. Pools are kept at a consistent temperature; wind is not an issue; and there is no equipment, such as bicycles or shoes, that could affect an athlete’s performance.

    Their mathematical analysis of the Olympians’ finish times showed a pattern: Times were slower in the morning and faster in the evening, with the best results around 5 p.m.

    As to why the athletes swam their best in the late afternoon, Lok said, “There are many possible factors. One idea is core body temperature — it peaks in the evening. But it could also be a function of glucose, oxygen saturation levels, insulin, cortisol, testosterone — lots of things.”

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  • Tampa police found the body of a swimmer in distress Friday afternoon.