Category: Open Water
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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…
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Diana Nyad presenting her 2012 Xtreme Dream Swim Jellyfish Armor
“It’s the jellyfish, that is what it is all about” :-)
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The Coldest Thing on Coney Island
Enjoy the celebration of thousand of swimmers as they welcomed 2012 with the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day Swim. Beware, there is a quite NSFW lady taking the plunge in just ‘tassels and a thong’, having promised to do so if she raised $5000 dollars for a young boy with a…
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East Bohemian freediving under the ice
I’m not totally sure where this is, but the video description says FEB Hrádek, and other videos by MrSmahy mention www.feb.cz, which is the East Bohemia Freediver club in the Czech Republic. Hrádek means ‘small fort’ in Czech, there is a map here on their site mentioning Hradec close to the center of the map.…
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4º Sea Swimmers
This is a short behind the scenes clip of a shoot done by Pete Webb mid January with Ollie Armfiled and his sea swimming club. Beautiful. 4º Sea Swimmers from Pete Webb on Vimeo.
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Polar Plunge Antartica
Even without have checked the numbers, I don’t think it gets much colder than that