Swimmer's Daily

Category: Fun

  • CC photo #19: Lucky girl gets to lead Der Paul et al past the Rijeka 2008 audience

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    That Croatian girl seems pretty happy with her job, leading Mads Glæsner, Paul Biedermann and Massimiliano Rosolino (in that order) past photographers and audience after the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course men’s 400 freestyle medal ceremony. And yes, I must stress that she did wear clothes :-P

  • Live manatee webcam goes online

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    The Save the Manatee Club debuted a live underwater camera on Tuesday morning at Blue Spring State Park, with which we’ll now be able to watch manatees seeking warm water refuge in the park’s spring run during the winter. Mmm, warm water … If you’re lucky, you might even see me ! :-D Watch live…

  • Underwater dragon dance in Bangkok

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    Thailand prepared to welcome in the Year of the Black Water Dragon on Tuesday as the Lunar New Year approached. In Bangkok, children attended a unique performance which included an underwater Chinese dragon dance. Hmm, if they could make that go really fast, by wearing fins or riding some underwater jetski underneath the outfit, then it…

  • Biologists capture rare photos of whales and dolphins playing together

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    Via Treehugger, they’re pretty excited that wild humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins take time out to play with each other off the coast of Hawaii. Unfortunately we only get to see shots of dolphins riding whales, and not the other way around :-P

  • Behold Filip Jonker and his cardboard boat

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    Named after the tugboat in Jan de Hartog’s 1940 book Hollands Glorie (published in English as Captain Jan), Dutch artist Filip Jonker’s boat De Furie is 24 feet long and made out of standard honeycomb cardboard. Fitted with a 33-horsepower diesel engine, it made the trip from Enschede in Holland to London, crossing the English…

  • CC photo #17: Don’t dive, Daniel

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    Just a fun photo from the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships, featuring Danish swimmer Daniel Skaaning and (I suppose) Jacek Miciul, coach of Polish double-gold medal winner RadosÅ‚aw KawÄ™cki at Klub Sportowy Korner Zielona Góra. It was that “don’t dive” sign in the background that made me search for the right moment :-)

  • Joel, where did my balloons go?

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    Practical joke on Canadian swimmer Joel Greenshields, member of Canada’s Beijing 2008 Olympic team, while at the 2012 Austin Grand Prix. Those guys obviously had too much time on their hands, while Joel and others won the 4×100 freestyle :-)

  • Faroese singer/songwriter Eivør sings “May It Be” for our Queen

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    Big party this weekend, celebrating the now 40 year reign of our Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. I wasn’t invited, but Eivør Pálsdóttir took down the house with this live interpretation of Irish musician Enya’s “May it Be”. Our DNA reveals that our male ancestors are Norwegian and the female Celts, go figure.

  • Stay out of the Water (Creature Feature)

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    Skrillex SmashUp by Soror Ordo Ab Chao. They’re everywhere !! Stay out of the Water ~ Creature Feature (Skrillex SmashUp) from Soror Ordo Ab Chao on Vimeo.