Category: Open Water
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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,…
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Wahooo headbands monitor how long swimmers are submerged
The Wahooo® Swim Monitor System is a drowning detection system invented for dark water facilities (but undoubtedly usable also in clearer water), that monitors how long submerged swimmers are under water, and then alerts the lifeguard if the situation gets dangerous. First, when a swimmer is submerged for a preset period of time (considered by…
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Photographer captures giant waves from beneath
Photographer Mark Tipple has an interesting project called “The Underwater Project“, in which he captures photographs of swimmers diving deep in order to survive passing waves. Via PetaPixel.
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Florida’s exclusive underwater burial ground
Three miles off the coast of south Florida and forty feet below the surface is a man-made, pristine reef where, several times a month, divers come to deposit stone urns containing ashes of the recently departed. This underwater burial ground near Miami was created by the Neptune Society, says Martha Porter, on of the group’s…