Category: Open Water
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Italy took gold in the Piombino 2012 women’s 10K event
Italy’s Martina Grimaldi European Champion in 2:12.23.3, Germany’s Angela Maurer second in 2:12.24.7 and Czech Jana Pechanova third in 2:12.26.1, see result list here.
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Video from the Piombino 2012 Men’s 10K European Championships
Jeez, looks a bit rough, the footage from the Piombino 2012 European Championships men’s 10K event, 12 September 2012. Russia’s Kirill Abrosimov won in 1:57.46.8, Germany’s Andreas Waschburger second in 1:57.48.2 and Italy’s Nicola Bolzonello third in 1:57.54.0, see result list here.
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Goodbye, Summer
“Another bit of test footage from the new dive rig. Considering this will probably be that last time you can surf Venice without a wetsuit for a while, I wanted to see if I could capture that summer fun feel through the lens.” Goodbye, Summer from Colin Pierce on Vimeo.
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Help oceanographers comb the ocean floor online
A new interactive website called Seafloor Explorer needs the public’s help to identify objects and seascapes in a few million underwater photos. The project is starting with 100,000 images, but there are more than 40 million in all. The photos come from the HabCam group, an underwater habitat-mapping project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Via POPSCI
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GoPro Movie
Nice footage from this summer, two girls having fun in and around water. Gopro Movie from Lauren on Vimeo.
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Time for the Piombino 2012 Open Water Europeans
Tomorrow morning at 10:00 CET, the 2012 European Open Water Swimming Championships will start in Piombino, Italy, with the men’s 10K and then the women’s 10K at 13:30 CET. See the official schedule here and the start lists here, featuring among others the London 2012 Olympic silver medalist Thomas Lurz, and our guy Pál Joensen,…
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Trent Grimsey breaks English channel swim record
Trent Grimsey, FINA’s top ranked Open Water swimmer, has broken the record for an unassisted solo crossing of the English Channel by a massive 2 minutes and fifty seconds. The Queenslander began his 34km marathon at Dover in southern England at approximately 9:30am local time Saturday (1830 AEST) and arrived at Cap-Gris-Nez, France in a…
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Nearly 1,000 compete in 43rd Annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim
At 9 a.m. at Kaimana Beach next to the Waikiki Natatorium, nearly 1,000 swimmers from all ages and swim backgrounds raced into the water to take on mother nature and try to prove that they could endure the 2.4 mile race course of the 43rd Annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim. Read Hawaii News Now Hawaii News…
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Camera lost underwater, recovered with great video
On August 18, 7 Action News photographer Chris Jones was shooting underwater scuba video of the ship wreck of the William Young. While surfacing, Chris lost his personal camera in the rough waters and it kept recording as it fell over 110 feet, right into the cargo hold of the wreck. Chris was unable to…