Swimmer's Daily

Month: December 2011

  • Ohio landlord defends “White Only” sign at pool

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    A landlord in Ohio is claiming that not only is her “White Only” pool sign not racist, but that the state’s civil rights commission was wrong in declaring it discriminatory. An African-American girl visited the pool and was told that she made the pool ‘cloudy’ because she used chemicals in her hair, and then this…

  • Great white shark attack victim shares his story

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    “I just remember hearing a crunch, darkness and next thing I knew was in the water, underwater,” says Eric Tarantino, shark attack victim. “Everything was quiet and I could see the shark.” Via Central Coast News

  • 2011 Salnikov Cup medal winners

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    So, tired of waiting for the results in English on www.saknikovcup.ru, I’ve fought my way through the result list in Cyrillic letters on russwimming.ru this evening, listing the medal winners in English by using the little I remember of Russian from high school. Most noteworthy results are Nikolay Skvortsov’s (RUS) 1:50.55 in the 200 butterfly…

  • FLUID Nuit Blanche Paris

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    A TSAI Chia-Wen light and sound installation for Nuit Blanche Paris 2011, in the most ancient swimming pool “Château-Landon” of Paris City. FLUID Nuit Blanche Paris from Chia-Wen TSAI on Vimeo.

  • Non-slip Arena WoW soles “Walk on Water”

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    WoW is a non-slip “Walk on Water” outsole technology that gives your Arena sandals a ‘perfect grip’ no matter if the floor is wet or not. Exciting video, for a moment I wondered if they’d chase each other into (onto?) the pool, but (spoiler alert:) no such luck! :-)

  • Stephanie Rice suffers shoulder infection following surgery

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    Triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice has had a minor setback in her recovery from shoulder surgery last week, with an infection now forcing her to miss training. Rice’s doctor ordered her to avoid training today, “Doc said it was slightly infected. Got some antibiotics and can get into xtraining again tomorrow,” Rice tweeted. Coach Michael…

  • Florida diver sets world record for longest scuba dive in saltwater

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    Earlier this month, a Central Florida diver broke the world record for longest saltwater dive by almost five minutes after spending two days under turbulent seas. 45-year-old Allen Sherrod dove in at 10:12 AM Thursday morning December 1st when the sea was flat, but that swiftly changed and conditions deteriorated, meaning he had to spend…

  • The Eco Extreme is a rugged iPhone pool deck dock

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    The Eco Extreme is a rugged all terrain speaker case that works with every mp3 player or cellphone with a headset jack, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, Motorola Droid and Blackberry. Able to withstand being submersed 1 meter in water for up to 30 min, and floatable to minimize that potential problem. Most rugged cases…

  • Aussies to take the underwater ironing world record back from the Dutch

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    So there is a “Underwater Extreme Ironing” battle going on that many of us haven’t heard of, between Australia and the Netherlands and UK, Poland, New Zealand and probably other countries too. The Netherlands hold the record of 173 scuba divers ironing underwater simulteneusly in March, but now Australia wants the record back, aiming for…