Year: 2017
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Fun With Physics: Guy Performs Incredible Ballpop In Ocean
When homeboy hits the water he displaces an amount based on his size/weight/force of impact. Due to science, that water is only temporarily displaced and rushes back in to fill the gap with the force of many oceans. By timing it just right, all that energy acts in a coordinated fashion to launch the floating…
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Chad Le Clos Announced as Youth Olympic Ambassador for the Second Time
Chad follows in the footsteps of his self-declared hero Michael Phelps, who acted as a YOG Ambassador for Singapore 2010. The influence of Phelps has had a significant impact on Chad’s career as a role model and finally as a rival; Chad triumphed over the Olympic legend in London in 2012 to win the gold…
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Interview: Talking waterslides with the brain behind a record-breaking ride
Everyone loves a good waterslide, but few live and breathe them like Ray Smegal. The professional hockey player-turned builder of flowing dreams heads up product development for Canada-based waterpark design firm ProSlide, which recently snipped the ribbon on a record- breaking ride in Melbourne. We chatted with Smegal about the evolution of waterslide design and…
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Rutgers Fires Swim Coach Amid Emotional Abuse Claims
Rutgers University has fired its women’s swimming and diving coach amid mental and verbal abuse allegations. Petra Martin’s dismissal came Thursday after athletics director Patrick Hobbs met with the team on Wednesday. “[T]he coach and the Director of Athletics mutually agreed that it was in the best interest of the program for the coach to…
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A Dutch nonprofit uses virtual reality to let disabled people ‘swim’ with dolphins
Swimming with wild dolphins is something most can only dream of, and jumping into pools with captive animals has become increasingly controversial with environmentalists condemning it as cruel. But a Dutch nonprofit believes it has found a way to bring people, especially the disabled community, closer to such a joyful experience through the technological, immersive…
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Caeleb Dressel, Katie Ledecky Take Top Honors At USA Swimming’s Golden Goggles
With the retirement of Michael Phelps and established stars like Missy Franklin and Ryan Lochte absent, the U.S. swim team arrived in Budapest, Hungary, for the 2017 FINA World Championships with an opening for a new star to emerge. By the time the competition was over, Caeleb Dressel did just that, winning seven gold medals,…
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Freediver Ant Williams explains what it’s like to be crushed by water
It was the deepest freedive I had ever attempted. Looming beneath me was the deep abyss of Dean’s Blue Hole that plunged to a depth of 200m. I slowed my breathing and checked my heart rate. The head judge signalled me over as my name and target depth was announced by the commentator. As I…
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A close encounter of the Whale kind
A leisurely Sunday afternoon Sail on the 12th November 2017 off Mollymook NSW, Australia, became so much more for all of us on board a Sail we survived and one we will never forget! I decided to video the Whales in the distance on the way home to Harbour and then!!!!
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Holiday Gift Ideas – Swim Training Essentials
Our favorite holiday gift ideas from SwimOutlet.com for the the swimmer on your list!