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  • Garrett Weber-Gale will be a chef at Noma ?

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    Interesting tweet here from Garrett Weber-Gale. I won’t introduce him, since everyone reading this should know who he is, but Rene Redzepi is as much a world star, in charge of Noma, the world’s best restaurant for the second year in a row (which happens to use Faroese langoustine for their seafood recipes). Flight booked…

  • Save yourself from Great Whites with AC/DC

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    Australian divers have found that Great White Sharks are much less aggressive when listening to AC/DC – particularly ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’. Only problem being in my view, that they at the same time become ‘investigative’, up to the point where they rub their face on the sound source (note to self: have…

  • Norwegians will fight over sewer on June 1st

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    As mentioned on April 29, Norway’s Forsvarsbygg is looking for new usage of the old sewer facilites under Festningsplassen in Oslo, with bidders being at least a cinema, a concert hall and a water recreational facility. Next phase is a “Fight Club” in the old (and I guess not yet renovated) facilities on June 1st,…

  • Íslandsbankasjósund 2011

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    Some tough Icelandic vikings taking a dip in 7.5° Celcius warm water (45.5° Fahrenheit). We call it ‘Faroe-white’, when someone (as me) has the skin color of someone who has never seen the sun. Apparently, there is a ‘Icelandic-white’ color too :-) Íslandsbankasjósund 20. maí 2011 from Ragnar Torfi Geirsson on Vimeo.

  • It’s Friday, let’s watch some freestyle canoe!

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    Grampa scoring a perfect ten here ! :-)

  • Keating and Sir Branson to swim the Irish sea for charity

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    Cancer Research UK’s ‘The Swim’ is a celebrity-led relay challenge where a group of eight swimmers and celebrities will team up with two members of the public to take on the 56-mile stretch between Wales and Ireland, including Ronan Keating and Sir Richard Branson. The gruelling stretch is almost three times the length of the…

  • The Voice of Swimming

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    5th video in the “Swimmers” web series: “The Voice of Swimming”: They often go unnoticed, though their voices are (literally) ringing in your ears. They are the puppet-masters, the dictators of the pace, tone, and excitement of swim meets. And while you casually watch each race, they scramble behind the microphone, calculating splits, learning pronunciations,…

  • Embarrassing moments in the pool

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    Australian swim stars admitting to their most embarrassing swimming moments, including Grant Hackett revealing that he ended with a tumble turn at the end of his still 1500 meter short course world record 14:10.10 from the Australian Short Course Championships in Perth 2001. Via the17thman.

  • The death of a swimming pool

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    When the Dagenham swimming pool in East London, England was to be demolished after 32 years in service, they chose a rather different end to its history. Relaunched as a BMX park, Nike 6.0 “The Pool” provides free access from May 16 to June 12, when the venue will be demolished. The pool was closed…