WinterSwim » Russia http://www.winterswim.com A blog about swimming in cold water in the winter Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:37:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Events of 2010 in Toronto Winter Swimming Club http://www.winterswim.com/2010/07/14/events-of-2010-in-toronto-winter-swimming-club/ http://www.winterswim.com/2010/07/14/events-of-2010-in-toronto-winter-swimming-club/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:15:48 +0000 Alla http://www.winterswim.com/?p=268 2010 Winter is over and these events stand in our memory

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]]> http://www.winterswim.com/2010/07/14/events-of-2010-in-toronto-winter-swimming-club/feed/ 0 2005 Karim Diab Cold Water Immersion http://www.winterswim.com/2008/06/06/2005-karim-diab-cold-water-immersion/ http://www.winterswim.com/2008/06/06/2005-karim-diab-cold-water-immersion/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:39:55 +0000 Shannon Larratt http://www.winterswim.com/?p=77 Recently some old photos of Karim Diab (described, perhaps inaccurately as a Russian David Blaine, in part due to doing a 48-day fast in a sealed chamber) were posted to EnglishRussia, showing him doing a one-hour immersion in the cold water of a hole in the ice of the Moscow River, while being monitored by scientists to examine the effects of the immersion. Apparently afterwards he was pretty out of it and unable to talk, although he did beat the world record. The “MNP” written on his forehead means “Peace”.

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