With 2018 coming to an in depth, we at Underwater Audio wished to take a second to have a look at a few of the large moments of the 12 months, each for us and the swimming neighborhood. After all, there are numerous candidates for this listing, so we’ll have to stay to the highlights. Now with out additional ado, right here is the Underwater Audio Retrospective with the highlights of 2018:
A New Web site
After numerous onerous work by a tremendous workforce, we have been in a position to create and publish a brand-new and revitalized web site. The brand new web site was extra visually interesting and far simpler to navigate. With it lively, we have been in a position to launch many new merchandise that we might have had issue with in any other case.
Swimbuds Package for Apple Watch
Throughout improvement of our waterproof Bluetooth-enabled merchandise, we noticed the waterproof qualities of the newer variations of the Apple Watch and wished to offer a viable manner for swimmers to take heed to the music whereas they swam with their Apple Watch. Thus the Swimbuds Package for Apple Watch was born – a pairing of a novel mounting design and a mixture MP3 participant and Bluetooth receiver.
The Delphin
Presumably our largest endeavor but – the Delphin waterproof streaming media participant. The Delphin surpassed our preliminary purpose on Kickstarter by 66% and raised over $145,000 on Indiegogo. That includes a touchscreen show, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities, the Delphin continues to be a high vendor on our web site.
Swimbuds Freedom
Everybody requested after we would launch a pair of wi-fi headphones and we lastly launched a pair final month known as the Swimbuds Freedom. Our wi-fi headphones are already flying off the cabinets and pairs properly with a Delphin. Good for each operating and swimming, the Swimbuds Freedom is designed with all athletes in thoughts.
A World File swimmer
There have been some large happenings within the world-wide swimming neighborhood as effectively. Jaimie Monahan set the Guinness World File for the quickest time to finish six separate 10 km (6.2 mile) marathon swims throughout six completely different continents. Jaimie, an Worldwide Marathon Swimming Corridor of Fame inductee, accomplished these swims in various water temperatures and as per “Channel Swimming Affiliation Guidelines,” she was prohibited from carrying warming gear akin to a wetsuit. Jaimie can also be the primary particular person to have accomplished the Ice Seven Problem which entails swimming a full mile in water temperatures beneath 5°C (41°F) in any respect six continents and in anybody Polar location.
A World’s-first swim
Nice Britain has been the situation of many swimmers’ objectives, the English Channel is known and relatively difficult swim. Nevertheless, Ross Edgley took his purpose to a complete different degree. Edgley turned the primary particular person swim across the total circumference of the island of Nice Britain. This colossal 1,780-mile accomplishment took the swimmer 5 months to finish, swimming for six to 12 hours per day and spending the remainder of the day in place on a assist boat. He even documented his journey by means of streamed movies throughout his downtime between lengths of swimming.
These have been our picks for the highlights of 2018. Now we’d like to listen to from you. What have been a few of your favourite moments of 2018? Be happy to depart a remark down under!
