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  • Always nice to know …

    • Do not go in the water at dawn or dusk; everything is in the shark’s favor. Shark attacks around midday are very rare.
    • Avoid large groups of seals or sea lions, or if you see these creatures on the beach or near the shoreline, beware.
    • If you are bleeding, including menstruating, stay out of the water.
    • Stay clear of fishing boats.
    • The murkier the water, the easier it is for a shark to sense you without your seeing the shark. Shark attacks are more likely to occur than when the water is clear.
    • Leave the water quickly and calmly if a shark is sighted. Avoid excessive splashing or arm and leg movement.
    • Stay in a group; most sharks attack individuals.

    Read SanClementePatch

  • A 3.8 km open water charity race on Sunday round Joss Bay in Kent could according to the BBC have ended as “a very serious problem”, when “up to 80 people” were swept out to sea and had to be rescued, some of them nearly two hours after the incident. Only a few swimmers managed to finish the race, arranged by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and coaching and event company Votwo, in support of the RNLI. The rest of them had to be resqued by the RNLI, talk about proving your value, *ahem*.

    Votwo are being more casual about it, stating shortly:

    Date Posted: 29-Aug-2011

    Joss Bay Long Swim

    Well done to the two junior athletes Lauren Joy and Molly Dawson who completed the mile swim in 27:23 and 27:25 respectively.

    In the 3.8km swim Paul Richardson won with a fast time of 51:25. Paul Newson came 2nd in a time of 55:13 and said the event was great training for his channel swim in a few weeks time.

    Of the 53 swimmers that started the 3.8km swim, 25 were unable to complete the course after the tide changed and were retrieved by water safety craft. 6 completed the whole course with 22 retiring early. All swimmers were accounted for.

    The RNLI landing their hard-hulled rescue vessel at Anstruther harbour.

  • 70-year-old Efrain N. Carrasquillo was working on a car last Thursday in the carport of a home in Orlando, when the car slipped into gear, pushing him and another vehicle parked directly behind him into the pool. The vehicle either sandwiched Carrasquillo or he was dragged, but other than that it was unclear exactly how he came to his death, when this article on the Orlando Sentinel was written.

  • Check out Ryan Lochtes reaction when the swedish, (blonde?) female reporter asks him: “…and you are talking about the Olympics, is that right?”  (around 30-50 sec mark). But to be fair, Ryan wasn’t 100% clear in his statement :-)

  • Kirsty CoventryInteresting, Kirsty Coventry will move to Monaco in September, to train there until the Olympics, thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene. Do we have a new international training center developing there, thanks to a swimmer turned princess ? Via The Swimmers Circle.

    Thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene from mid Sept, I’ll be training in Monaco until Olympics. Reason: no distractions and location.less than a minute ago via Seesmic twhirl Favorite Retweet ReplyKirsty Coventry
    KirstyCoventry

  • A short segment on TV2 tonight about his ‘holiday’ at Noma, working in the kitchen of the number one restaurant in the world. The subtitle says “I come here and work for hours in the kichen. It is tedious and hard.” If you have trouble with any other Danish speak in the segment, then please contact Chris at the Swim Brief ;-)

  • Sir Richard Branson has pulled out of “The Swim” across the Irish Sea, after his luxury Carribean home was struck by lightning caused by Irene. Actress Kate Winslett was among 20 people who fled the paradise home on Necker Island, as it went up in flames. Pop star Ronan Keating has vowed to battle on despite of injuring his hamstring earlier this week, alongside other celebrities including Atomic Kitten singer Jenny Frost, all to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Read more here on The Telegraph.

  • First it was live prawns, and now some guy from Brazil produces a fly and says that it is edible. As if we didn’t learn already at kindergarden, not to eat stuff just because some other guy says that you can.

    How many of you would eat this? I did. Brazilian chef brought them to Copenhagen…had to throw one back. Gnar http://t.co/o6GBr7oless than a minute ago via Twitpic Favorite Retweet ReplyGarrett Weber-Gale
    G_WeberGale

  • Sea LampreyThe sea lamprey is a parasitic eel-like fish found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, in the western Mediterranean Sea, in the Great Lakes and even in the Thames. It has a suction-cup like mouth full of sharp teeth, and it doesn’t take prisoners, but let’s them bleed to death or die from infection. It usually doesn’t attack humans, but oh well it has happened even to open water swimmers.

    Anyways, Michigan State University has developed an effective lamprey repellent, that gets tested in the video below.

    Aand there is an underwater view as well. Really nice, via Geekosystem.

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