Because nature is totally nuts, this is a video of a robotic spy fish infiltrating a millions-strong shoal of herring while they look for a place to lay and fertilize their eggs. The real fish constantly release flatulence from their swim bladders that sounds like clicking underwater, a behavior our

This is a video of a mom filming her son competing in a swim meet and completely losing awareness of where she’s at and falling in the pool. Or maybe she was trying to distract the judges from that bootleg version of the breaststroke he was doing. One kick per

Seen here reminding me of the first time I wore shoes in the pool (I almost drowned), this is a video of artistic swimming world champion Kristina Makushenko casually walking a 360-degree loop underwater like she’s in an invisible hamster wheel and the law of gravity doesn’t apply to her.

This is a video of a precious baby seal learning to swim as part of its rehabilitation at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan. Man, that seal is ALL EYES. What a cutie. You know I have fairly large eyes too. EIGHT OF THEM. “You’re not a spider.” Yes I am too

In always try hard and believe in yourself news, this is a video of 9-year old soccer player Aleks repeatedly trying to kick the ball through a tire hanging in the top of the goal. He always comes close, but never gets it in there. I mean, until he does.

In I’m pretty sure I remember a Mythbusters episode about this news, this is a video of The Action Lab half-heartedly experimenting to see if a swimmer (read: wind-up turtle toy) can swim just as fast in syrup as in water. The idea is that although syrup is more viscous,

This is a side-by-side comparison of the speed of Olympic 100-meter freestyle swimmers in 1932 and 2016. Unsurprisingly, the 2016 swimmers are faster. How much faster? Almost eleven seconds, with first place finishes of 47.58 seconds in 2016 and 58.2 seconds in 1932. Obviously, there are a number of factors

This is a video of five time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Katie Ledecky swimming a lap while balancing a glass of chocolate milk on her head to participate in the TikTok Got Milk? challenge, and not the WTF World Do We Live In? challenge like you might have expected. Her