“I called my daughter outside to see a squirrel trapped in my granddaughter’s kiddie pool; and of course, being the animal lover she is, she had to attempt a rescue. The squirrel was not quite as grateful as she had hoped! It leaps at her face as she recoils in horror and runs away screaming. She came away with a scratch on her arm, and after a cautious second attempt, she did indeed rescue the squirrel.”
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Paul Talty, Swim Ireland’s associate head of performance services, is here to deliver another of the strength workouts he has prescribed to his elite swimmers, while they have been confined to dry land.
Double Olympian, Double European Champion, World and Commonwealth medalist, and now Blogger, Speaker, and Mentor Lizzie Simmonds speaks with Swim Swift Elite. We cover her career from being at a high level so young and how this impacted education, pressure and expectation, an agonising 4th place finish at the Olympics, transitions into the ‘real world’, and finally her current roles, goals, and ambitions for herself outside of swimming.
An increase in drownings in the Potomac River has led local fire departments to remind swimmers that it is not only dangerous but illegal to swim in certain areas.
D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Vito Maggiolo said with pools are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, more people are going to the river for a swim. However, the department reports two drownings have happened recently.
“The river, although it appears to be calm, can be very treacherous, it’s very deceiving,†Maggiolo said.
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The Pueblo County Coroner confirmed the identity of two men who died Friday at Lake Pueblo.
The bodies of Zion Thomkins of Philadelphia and Michael Carter, hometown unspecified, were recovered by search crews about three hours after the first call to 9-1-1.
Both men were 21 years of age.
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Visually impaired swimmers often need to hire ‘tappers’ in order to train safely. ‘Tappers’ are individuals who stand at the end of a lane and hit the visually impaired swimmer using an improvised rod, alerting them when to turn. Swimsight enables visually impaired swimmers to train independently. The system uses computer vision to track lane markings and calculate the user’s trajectory. If the swimmer drifts off course or reaches the end of the lane, haptic motors activate, alerting them at the exact moment they need to take action. Thus, Improving conditions for these swimmers and saving them money.
Relive the full Team Technical competition in Artistic Swimming of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro! Russian superstars Natalia Ishchenko, Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Svetlana Romashina, and their team were the hot favorite for the title. The teams of China and Japan made it to the top 3 as well. Enjoy watching and find out who won the Gold medal!
Maneater is a third-person shark sim and I flippin’ love it. Billed as a “SharkPG†by Tripwire Interactive, Maneater follows the exploits of a severely wronged bull shark. Cut from her mother’s belly at birth by famed hunter, Scaly Pete, and disfigured in her escape, our heroic Carcharhinus cuts her teeth patrolling the shoals and coasts of South Florida in search of revenge, growing from a level 1 pup barely able to take down a trout, to a level 30 Megalodon gleefully chewing through entire armadas of coast guard ships.
The goal of this game is to eat everything in sight and then wash that meal down with anything dumb enough to think it could hide from you the first time through. The main gameplay mechanic in Maneater involves you cruising through the water, monching on anything you can fit down your ever-growing gullet and avoiding larger predators until you’re big enough to bite them down to size. Your developmental progress is measured by how many nutrients in total you’ve consumed of protein, fats, minerals, and mutagen.
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