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Article content At 12 noon on Jan. 1, Ann Kubota and her daughter Zeneca strip down to bathing suits on English Bay beach, and take a moment to gather their courage. Let’s go. No, wait. OK, OK. Now! A Polar Bear plunge in the icy waters of English Bay has been a community tradition since […]
By ASHLEY NICKEL FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 00:31 GMT, 31 December 2024 | Updated: 02:20 GMT, 31 December 2024 A newlywed Australian tourist honeymooning in Bali has drowned after being swept out to sea by a freak wave. Jacob Vennix, 32, and his new wife, Kimberly Fuller, 38, were relaxing on Pasut Beach, about […]
Central Coast, NSW One and a half hours drive from Sydney, in the NSW Central Coast suburb of Wamberal, a four-bedroom family home with an inground pool sold for $1.48 million earlier in December. The property at 761 The Entrance Road sits on a 620-square-metre block, with an outdoor inground pool incorporating a modern and […]
Walshe caps impressive World Championships with two top-six finishes, Wiffen eighth in Budapest Sign in or createa free account To continue reading create a free account Or sign into an existing account Source link
Swimmer Summer McIntosh, the first Canadian to win three gold medals in a summer or winter Olympic Games, captured the women’s 400-metre freestyle in world record time for her first individual world short course championship gold medal on Tuesday in Budapest, Hungary. McIntosh touched the wall in three minutes 50.25 seconds. The previous world mark of […]
A team of researchers has beaten its own record for the fastest swimming soft robot, drawing inspiration from manta rays to improve their ability to control the robot’s movement in the water. “Two years ago, we demonstrated an aquatic soft robot that was able to reach average speeds of 3.74 body lengths per second,” says […]
Looking to take a break from the cold without traveling too far or spending too much? Here are some sunny, easy-to-reach places to beat the winter blahs. Source link
My sister and I are lying on slabs like flounders in a fishmonger’s. Instead of a bed of ice, though, we’re stretched out on heated marble. We move between three hot rooms, each resembling little chapels with vaulted ceilings, chatting quietly in the cooler one, applying face and hair masks in the middle one, and simply lying still, […]
anchor Image: Enricoslasheric/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) Unlike traditional swimming pools, which contain chlorine, natural pools rely on plants and rocks for filtration instead. An underwater retaining wall separates the swimming area (where humans — and sometimes fish — swim) from the regenerative zone, which closely […]
Gaddings Dam was built as a mill pond in about 1833, when the Industrial Revolution positioned West Yorkshire and the north of England as the centre of the developed world’s cotton-spinning and weaving mills. It sits above the market town of Todmorden, out of sight on the moor of Langfield Common, with a sandy beach […]