Category: Open Water
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Sea pool
Short version of a documentary in production on the Australian ocean pool culture in Sydney such as the famous Bondi Icebergs swimming club. Via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook, love it!
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Rottnest Swim 2009 Perth
Funny how music can make a ‘fun swim’ slideshow really, really dramatic :-) Rottnest Swim 2009 Perth from Robert van Koesveld on Vimeo.
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Was Watson trying to drown or save his honeymoon bride?
Gabe Watson is charged with first-degree murder, prosecutors saying he drowned his wife on their honeymoon to collect a life insurance payout, and defense maintaining that Tina, in her first open water dive, panicked and died accidentally. He served 18 months in Australia for manslaughter. Read The Huffington Post.
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Bodysurfing the Boom Boom Room 2012
“7-time Olympic gold medalist, Aaron Peirsol, reappers from the mist in this surf video.” Quote Gold Medal Mel on Facebook
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The First Day of 2012
“Hung-over-frozen-lake-dip in the “morning”, followed by much wallowing until still-hung-over-mountain-lake-hockey in the late afternoon.”
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Keri-Anne Payne and Chad Ho win Midmar Mile
Chad Ho became the first man to win three Midmar Mile titles in a row on Sunday, while Keri-Anne Payne clinched a record seventh successive crown in the women’s race in Howick, Kwa-Zulu Natal. Here below, we see Keri-Anne Payne and Ashley Twichell sprint to the finish, filmed by a remote controlled quadcopter helicam. Via…
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Ulyanovsk swim club “Walrus” having fun
The video title says “Walruses sunbathing”, insight into the activities of Russian winter swimming club “Walrus” in Sviyaga River in Ulyanovsk, some 893 kilometers (555 miles) east from Moscow. Looks fun but gee … when Russians start to look cold, it must be absolutely freezing.
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Cold Power North Bondi Classic
Something going down at North Bondi, see results and stuff at www.oceanswims.com
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Diving with the deadly irukandji
A funny read, this thing on Gadling Not more than two seconds after reaching the bottom, however, his eyes excitedly bulged and appeared to double in size as seen through the fog of his mask. Slowly, he raised a focused finger at something apparently located behind me. For anyone who hasn’t spent much time underwater,…