Category: Fun
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CC photo #239: Our youngest now also a registered swimmer
He protested this morning that he couldn’t join our local swimming club, since he didn’t know how to swim. ‘I only know how to jump and dive and make somersaults’. I guess we forced him to the registration / free swim today, and I guess it went okay ;-)
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Behold, NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon officiating a dolphin race at Georgia Aquarium
Complete with a fished-filled trophy and all, see NBC Sports
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This pool is too small for even a baby elephant
Trying to count laps here, but it is difficult, via Arbroath
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What happens when squid listen to Cypress Hill
This video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of a squid, being stimulated by electricity produced from the sound of Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Brain”. See Backyard brains via Buzzfeed
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Poor hippo can swim but not climb out of the pool
A young hippopotamus plopped into the pool on Tuesday at the Monate Conservation Lodge north of Johannesburg. The pool is big enough for the hippo to swim but it’s eight feet deep with no steps and “there’s no way he can come out,” lodge manager Ruby Ferreira told The Associated Press on Thursday. Now the…
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Symmonds tries for the beer mile world record (and fails)
Hopefully not swimming related (now, that would be an *evil* record), but here is track runner Nick Symmonds trying to break the “beer mile” world record, in which a runner has to chug a beer at quarter-mile intervals. He finished in 5:19, 10 seconds short of the world record of 5:09 set by Canadian marathoner…
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Video: Ryan Lochte and Prince Harry race each other at that Vegas pool party
Behold Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte and Prince Harry third-in-line-to-the-throne-of-Britain racing each other in a Las Vegas pool over the weekend. Breaststroke, heads above water. See for instance Popsugar and the NY Daily News Here is another video also showing the start, apparently there was a third swimmer also, maybe the judge? Later, Prince Harry also…
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Video from the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk
Here at last, the video from the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk, last Saturday, my daughter filming the start with our GoPro and then me trying to get steady shots on the rocking fish farm ring that was the finishing line.