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  • Russians celebrate Epiphany taking ice-cold midnight dip to wash away sins

    Russians celebrate Epiphany taking ice-cold midnight dip to wash away sins

    Read for instance RT It may be the middle of a freezing winter here in Russia but that’s not stopping the determined from taking a dip. A midnight immersion in water on the 18/19 January is the traditional way to celebrate the Orthodox holiday of Epiphany. The date is considered holy by Christians, because on…

  • Therese Alshammar on the road to Rio

    Therese Alshammar on the road to Rio

    Behold this wonderful video by Swedish national TV svt.se, featuring the queen of Swedish swimming Therese Alshammar, her son Fred, and her coach/partner Johan Wallberg. Via simma.nu/se In Swedish – My attempt to translate follows below the video It is now 8 months since Therese Alshammar had her son Fred, and she has the all…

  • Swimming Mad Huey fends off 10-foot tiger shark with a bird cage

    Swimming Mad Huey fends off 10-foot tiger shark with a bird cage

    Right, so ‘Aussie adrenaline junkies‘ Shaun and twin brother Dean Harrington had decided to go cage diving with sharks for an extreme video shoot for the surfing and fishing clothing label The Mad Hueys, when this happened. “We were just having fun but it turned crazy.” Not using a proper shark cage, but a AUS$50…

  • Passenger captures fatal plane crash into ocean, wild selfie

    Passenger captures fatal plane crash into ocean, wild selfie

    See PetaPixel On December 11th, Ferdinand Puentes captured many people’s worst nightmare on video: his plane making an emergency water landing. Puentes enjoys capturing takeoffs and landings, and so his GoPro was already rolling on that fateful day when something very bad happened to the single engine of the small plane in which he was…

  • Behold the abandoned swimming pool in Pyramiden, Svalbard

    Behold the abandoned swimming pool in Pyramiden, Svalbard

    Pyramiden is a ghost town on Svalbard (Norway), way north in the Atlantic Ocean, named after the nearby, pyramid-shaped mountain. A former Russian settlement and coal mining community, it was abandoned apparently in a hurry in 1998, leaving behind stuff like a “Red October” grand piano in the cultural centre auditorium, and an empty swimming…

  • Origins of the Australian Crawl

    Origins of the Australian Crawl

    “From the BBC programme Faster, Higher, Stronger: Stories of the Olympic Games, a look at some early exponents of the modern freestyle swimming stroke.” http://youtu.be/FiR62H9B4E4

  • Polar Bear Swims 2014

    Polar Bear Swims 2014

    Yeah, let’s start collecting again, like after Christmas Achill New Year’s Day Swim 2014 Bowen Island Polar Bear Swim 2014 Broadstair’s New Year’s Day Swim 2014 Channahon Polar Plunge 2014 Charlestown Polar Plunge 2014 Coeur d’Alene Polar Bear Plunge 2014 (aerial view) Coney Island Polar Bear Swim 2014 Coney Island Polar Bear Swim 2014 (2)…

  • Happy New Year

    Happy New Year

    Thank you all for an exciting 2013, and best of luck in 2014. Photo is of the big bonfire last year here in Toftir, Faroe Islands. For some (viking?) reason, we like to burn boats :-)  

  • Behold This 1,000 FPS Phantom Camera Underwater Shoot

    Behold This 1,000 FPS Phantom Camera Underwater Shoot

    Amazing video found here on DIY Photography Director Scott Rhea was hired to create a spectacle for the Flux art event at SoHo House in Hollywood. He took a Phantom camera underwater and shot this amazing footage. The combination of underwater which naturally gives an ethereal feel with the slow motion is mesmerizing. SCOTT RHEA…