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Category: Fun

  • Polar Plunge Antartica

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    Even without have checked the numbers, I don’t think it gets much colder than that

  • Great Australia Day Swim 2012

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    Michael Klim points to this video here on Twitter, from the Great Australia Day Swim 2012 charity swim, supporting charities and community organisations providing support to disadvantaged children and youths. They raised about AUD $ 70,000, most of it going to Les Twentyman’s 20th Man Fund. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/MichaelKlimAus/status/164493908783546368″]

  • Base jumps off the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore

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    We’ve mentioned that fantastic pool before, spanning across the three Marina Bay Sands hotel towers in Singapore, and here are 7 professional BASE jumpers celebrating New Year’s Day 2012 by jumping off it. Via the17thman Marina Bay Sands Skypark BASE Jump. Singapore 2012. from Snow R. Shai on Vimeo. Jeb Corliss has tried that jump…

  • 145 water-skiers break world record in Tasmania

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    Last Friday, a total of 154 water-skiers from all over the world attempted to break the world record for the number of skiers pulled behind one boat, demanding a full nautical mile inside Australia’s Macquarie Harbour in Strahan. Nine of them fell, but the remaining 145 was more than enough to break the previous record…

  • Wanna swim with a 5.5 meter long crocodile ?

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    His name is Chopper and he lives in the Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin, Australia. They have this thing called the Cage of Death, which is a flimsy looking plexiglass enclosure inside the crocodile’s pool (or ‘territory’, as some would call it) that you (and/or the crocodile?) can dive into, to get a real close look…

  • The Olympics is a toy event to this 5-year-old

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    Funny, she’ll probably grow up and dream of having a tattoo with that.

  • The Danish struck by the travel luck of Bjarnason

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    So, Pál Joensen is now on his first altitude camp ever, in Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, together with the Danish national team and a few other swimmers. But it was no easy trip from Copenhagen to the Sierras, as they had Pál’s coach Jón Bjarnason with them, who is notoriously unlucky when it comes…

  • Learn to swim – Better Health Channel

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    Featuring Tammy van Wisse and a not-so-great up-and-coming swimmer called Tony Shaw. For more information about water safety, visit the Better Health Channel website.

  • Soldier proposes (out) through aquarium window

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    Jake Schultheis “captured his only fish in the sea” with a pre-staged marriage proposal for girlfriend Cassidi Humphries on Thursday morning, a news release from the Virginia Aquarium said. It took a moment for Humphries to realize the message was intended just for her, but she got it when he got down on one knee,…