Category: Fun
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Swimming is the No. 1 (real) sport in the US, and growing
According to a survey by the National Sporting Goods Association, swimming is the 3rd most popular sport based on participation in the US (not necessarily formal participation on a team). An estimated 51,900,000 people age 7 and up participated in swimming during 2010, an increase of 3.4% since 2008. Via Kast-A-Way Swimwear.
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Wow, the Jetlev r200 works as an underwater Jet Pack too
Fox 5 Newscaster demonstrating here how not to use the Jetlev r200, if not you’re trying for an all-time low :-)
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Graeme Moore trying out a Disney-class ice bath
Great picture of South Africa’s Graeme Moore, here in Roland Schoeman’s Lockerz-photos. I wonder what kind of kid gets that kind of tall and narrow pool, so yes, lets’ buy them all and make ice baths out of them :-) Who needs a $6000 ice bath when you can rock the $50 Disney version like…
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How about an underwater bedroom suite for two ?
A little over five years ago, Conrad Maldives Rangali Island opened the very first all-glass, undersea restaurant, offering guests the chance to eat 16 feet below sea level of the breathtaking tropical Indian Ocean. Now in celebration of this, they turned the Ithaa restaurant into a temporary private Hilton-class bedroom suite for two, complete with…
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Planking reaches swimming also (with Fanta)
Planking is a craze consisting of having a photo taken while lying face down as a plank in an unusual location. Fanta Iceland has been arranging a competition on Facebook now for 4 weeks, called “Plankað með Fanta”, where people post photos of themself planking with Fanta bottles, with the chance of winning an iPhone…
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The World Swimming Time Zone is now GMT+8 hours
All the best swimmers in the world are now flocking along the China Standard Time zone, waking up at approximately 7 AM in Shanghai, midnight in London, 7 PM the day before in New York and 4 PM the day before in San Francisco. The Brits are in Osaka, the Americans at the Gold Coast…
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The Jetlev r200 Jet Pack is as cool as it looks
Mount me a camera, and I’m all set for some cool open water swimming coverage!
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Lucky guy catches baseball in a swimming pool full of girls in bikinis
What is this sport, and were do I sign up ?
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Sometimes it is handy to be Tarzan
Funny story here on wbez.org, about Chicago swimming legend Johnny Weissmuller famous for being first man under the minute in 100 meter freestyle, and for his role as Tarzan in the 1930-ies and 1940-ies. In 1958, years after his last movie, Weissmuller was at a golf outing in Cuba when his party was suddenly captured…