Titres dans Sports aquatiques

Quand la COVID-19 a frappé le Royaume-Uni, le gouvernement a conseillé aux plus de soixante-dix ans de se « protéger », tandis que le pays était mis en confinement. Au lieu de quoi un vieil homme a pris la mer en solitaire.

Oly Bennet dives into water polo, the Olympic sport where athletes tread water while wrestling, sprinting, and launching balls at blistering speeds. From Victorian origins to underwater tactics and superhuman fitness demands, discover why this aquatic battlefield produces the toughest athletes on Earth. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Join Oly Bennet as he dives into ice swimming, where brave athletes race through bone-chilling waters in swimsuits. From frozen lake competitions to the grueling Ice Mile challenge, discover why thousands embrace this beautifully unhinged sport that's equal parts madness and triumph. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Globe-trotting sports fanatic Oly Bennet dives into synchronized swimming, exploring Olympic drama, underwater artistry, and absurd analogies. Expect bonkers choreography and rants about smiling while drowning. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Dive into extreme international ice swimming, where athletes brave sub-zero waters in swimsuits. Oly Bennet explores death-defying challenges like the Ice Mile, cold-water immersion science, and globe-trotting competitions pushing human endurance to frozen limits. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

We all have those now or never moments when we are faced with a making a decision that we know will change our lives forever. Join me on my sailing adventure after I overcame my fear, kicked off my high heels, and gained my sea legs. Follow my journey aboard a 41-foot sailboat after I found the courage to leave my glossy corporate lifestyle to live a dream. Years from now, when I look back to the time in my life when I threw off the bowlines, and set sails to explore, dream and discover, I will have realized a treasure worth more than money can ever buy.

Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy's Search and Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure and an ordeal.

Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936.

‘Incredible individual, incredible book, incredible story.’ CHRIS HEMSWORTH ‘A hero who is as humble as he is resilient… testament to a “never give up” spirit!’ BEAR GRYLLS ‘From reading this book, the message that comes shining through is this: you can achieve anything.’ ANT...

When Guirec Soudée was 21 years old, he bought a 30-foot sailboat and set out across the Atlantic, despite having only sailed a dinghy before. His only companion? His plucky pet hen, Monique. Guirec never intended to sail the world with a chicken, but after reaching the Caribbean, he and Monique made for Greenland - and emerged from the pack ice 100 days later.

Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 2016. Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life.

This audiobook of the RYA Sail Trim Handbook is crammed with useful tips and pointers on one of the fundamentals of good seamanship: sail trim. Sail trim can be bewildering to the novice, but this audiobook talks you through the subject in an informative, entertaining manner, with a focus on the needs of the cruising sailor rather than the out-and-out racer. After all, a well-trimmed cruising yacht will be better balanced, easier to handle, and will sail more comfortably.

Les petites histoires qui ont fait la grande Histoire du Vendée Globe, racontées par l'un des meilleures plumes de l'univers marin. De l'expédition acrobatique pour récupérer les premières images de Titouan Lamazou dans les mers du Sud au sauvetage de Kevin Escoffier par Jean Le Cam, ce livre retrace trente-cinq ans d'épisodes détonants. On y croise des pionnières, un naufragé, des rescapés, de la télémédecine avant l'heure, des poissards et même des éléphants de mer…. Né d'un simple pari entre amis, le Vendée Globe s'impose comme la course majuscule.

RYA Yacht Sailing Techniques describes the basic skills that a skipper and crew require to enjoy their cruising in good conditions. It covers the layout and equipment on a small to medium-sized yacht, the essential safety information that all need to know before getting under way, basic maintenance, manoeuvring in a marina, handling under sail, anchoring and mooring, and, of course, man overboard rescue strategy.

The incredible true survival story of fisherman Salvador Alvarenga – and his record-breaking fourteen months lost at sea. On 17th November, 2012, Salvador Alvarenga left the coast of Mexico for a two-day fishing trip. A vicious storm killed his engine and the current dragged his boat out to...

Plongée Confidentielle est un livre audio unique avec de précieux conseils d'expert, qui vous révèle les secrets des professionnels de plongée. Avec Plongée Confidentielle, vous apprenez à maîtriser les compétences et les techniques qui feront de vous un plongeur plus confiant, capable et sûr. Il présente les pour et les contre sur des questions controversées comme la plongée seul, la plongée profonde et les recycleurs. Il comprend une analyse complète des accidents de plongée et comment faire en sorte de ne pas faire partie des statistiques.

Fresh from his triumphant and extraordinary achievement at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Michael Phelps—up from working-class, born-in-the-USA roots—shows us the secrets to his remarkable success—from training to execution. For years the world has followed Michael Phelps’s progress from...

City girl Torre DeRoche isn’t looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He’s just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that’s as exhilarating as it is terrifying.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE ENTHRALLING INSIDE STORY OF THE THAI CAVE RESCUE 'They were utterly alone inside the mountain, isolated from the rest of the world. They might as well have been on another planet . . .' In July 2018, twelve boys and their football coach disappeared into Tham Luang...

Humans, unlike other animals that are drawn to water, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now in the 21st century, we swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. Swimming is an introspective and silent sport in a chaotic and noisy age; it’s therapeutic for both the mind and body; and it's an adventurous way to get from point A to point B. It's also one route to that elusive, ecstatic state of flow.