Tag: featured
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Octopus wrestles with underwater cameraman in California
See BBC Two divers have had an unexpected encounter in California after an octopus tried to wrestle their camera from them. David Malvestuto and his diving partner Warren Murray were recording footage of marine life in Bluefish Cove off the town of Carmel. Mr Murray described what happened when they came face-to-face with the camera-shy…
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ICEBERGERS
From the creative mind of David Brooks and George Giampietri the story of one man’s journey from Britain to Australia to discover the Brighton Icebergers. An inventive, hilarious and often very wet film that will take you on a tour de force of the pier politics of cold water swimming, the true romance and comedy…
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Brent Hayden – From Olympic Swimmer to Photographer
“Brent talks about his journey from retiring after the London 2012 Olympics to pursuing his photography.”
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Paris’s Abandoned Métro Stations, Reimagined as Theaters and Pools
Read The Atlantic Cities and Messy Nessy Chic The Paris Métro, opened in 1900, extends over more than 200 kilometers of track, serving more than 300 individual stops. But there are 11 more stations that, though once built, now stand nearly abandoned. Many of these “ghost” or “phantom” stations shuttered after the occupation during WWII. Two of them,…
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Dave Cornthwaite’s Expedition1000
“At the age of 25 Dave Cornthwaite left his job as a graphic designer and embarked upon an adventure that would take him all over the world, in all kinds of different ways. His Expedition1000 project is considered one of the most ambitious adventure projects of all time. Twenty-five different non-motorised journeys, each in excess…
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Swimming with the giants
“Swimming with the whale sharks in Oslob, Cebu.” Swimming with the giants from Jonathan Roco De Guzman on Vimeo.
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Why Is Swimming the Most Deadly Leg of a Triathlon?
Read Scientific American Despite being the first leg and covering the shortest distance in any triathlon, swimming has proved to be the most deadly. Minneapolis Heart Institute cardiologist Kevin Harris last year published a study in JAMA: The Journal of American Medical Association analyzing the results of 2,971 USA Triathlon-sanctioned events held between January 2006…
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Video captures orcas stalking swimmer in Wellington
See The New Zealand Herald A swimmer who had a close encounter with orca in Wellington’s Lyall Bay yesterday was never in danger, an orca expert says. The person who sent the video, Rebecca Parlett, said the swimmer was unaware he was being followed by two of the ocean’s top predators until being alerted by…