(Video Link)When you spend most of your life in the water, you need to learn how to get around at some point. Here's mommy teaching him how to get back to the surface so he can breathe. They may be the most dangerous ani...

It was just last night that I noticed that no Olympic swimmers are wearing the hi-tech full-body LZR suits that were all over the Beijing Olympics in 2008. It turns out those were banned by Olympic officials. The new ru...

The London Olympics Pools Cams have a Twitter feed! These cameras record the swimmers from below, giving us a very different view of what's going on in the water. Buzzfeed posted a collection of some of the best. Sho...

Photo: Men's Synchronized Swimming from Harry Shearer: Now You See It - via VideoSif...  ...instance, the missing sport of Men's Synchronized Swimming : Male synchronized swimming has had a charming existence in popular culture....  ...e, men have started participating in...

At the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis, competitors took part in a water event called the distance plunge. That was the only year it was part of the games. The event required athletes to dive into the pool and coast un...

(Video Link) Just look at that water, mocking you with its wetness. Get it! Via I Has A Hot Dog...

(vimeo link) A lonely city-dweller goes for a late night swim and (literally) runs into a kindred spirit. The Czech short film by Alexandra Hetmerová won the Best Animation award in 2010 at the International Student...

[YouTube Clip] Think you'd be safe on the water when the Robocalypse happens, humans? Think again: ... researchers Chung Changhyun and Motomu Nakashima at the Tokyo Institu...

(YouTube link) A mother otter teaches her pups to swim, in this video from the Columbus Zoo. I thought it came naturally! -via Metafilter...

(Video Link) You have to be pretty darn brave to get this up close and personal with one of the biggest predators around. That being said, it's pretty adorable and I'm totally jealous. Would you dare to swim with this...