Noise pollution caused by whale-watching boats and other human activity can interrupt orca communications and disorient the marine mammals. Scientists with the nonprofit Ocean Sounds are working to make Norway’s Lofoten archipelago a marine protected area, which would limit noise pollution and prevent oil drilling around the Arctic island chain.
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Olympians Who Are “One In A Thousand”
Watch and Listen to Mark Spitz, Janet Evans, Dara Torres, Vladimir Salnikov, Brenda Villa, Greg Louganis, Anthony Ervin, Elvira Khasyanova, Jason Lezak, and Rowdy Gaines. Become a supporter of the International Swimming Hall of Fame and become One In A Thousand!
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Caeleb Dressel | Dive and Glide Challenge | Propulsion Swimming
This week we are not only going to be taking on the Caeleb Dressel Dive and Glide Challenge, but we are also going to break down for you guys at home why Dressel was able to go 24.9m on his own attempt!!
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Improve your Breaststroke Technique feat. Breeja Larson | Olympians’ Tips
Enjoy watching Olympic Swimmer for Team USA and Olympic Gold Medallist of London 2021 Breeja Larson teaching you how to improve your Breaststroke kick! The Breaststroke kick is what makes this stroke so powerful. If you want to refer it to a land exercise, the breaststroke kick would be more like a jumping squad. Therefore, the legs movement needs to be precise and very symmetrical. The cool thing about swimming is you can do the same repetition a hundred times without getting tired.
Remember:
- Keep your body in a streamlined position
- Keep your knees closer together
- Flex heels outwards
- Push water back
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Florent Manaudou’s World Record at Doha 2014 | FINA World Championships
France’s Florent Manaudou smashed the 50m Freestyle Final at the 2014 edition of the FINA World Swimming Championships in Doha claiming a Gold Medal and a new World Record with a time of 20.26. Relive this epic final with the best sprinters in the world racing head to head!
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Disaster declaration after brain-eating amoeba found in water l GMA
Josiah McIntyre, 6, died within five days of feeling sick after from the rare but almost always fatal amoeba found in a hose pipe at his home and infects the body through the nose. READ MORE: https://abcn.ws/3joGvyR
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Texas child dies from brain-eating amoeba, water testing underway
The death of a 6-year-old boy in southeast Texas has sparked an investigation into the area’s water supply. Josiah McIntyre died on September 8 in Lake Jackson, Texas from an often fatal brain-eating amoeba. Mireya Villarreal reports.
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Brain-eating amoebae are very rare, but warming waters may change that
Scientists are concerned that climate change may be making N. fowleri infections more common. “In theory as the world heats up there will be more surface water at around 30 degrees Celsius [86 degrees Fahrenheit] so there will be more N. fowleri habitat†Maciver wrote. However, many factors, not just water temperature play a role in its occurrence.
There’s still a lot we don’t know about the amoeba: For instance, why so few people contract its fatal disease, when we know the amoeba itself is widespread enough to be infecting far more people than its killing. “There is a tendency for PAM to occur in outbreaks,†Maciver and colleagues noted in a 2019 paper. They wrote it’s likely there have been more global deaths of it since the 1960s than the 400-plus that are currently identified.
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