🏊🏻 Michael Phelps races a great white shark (sort of)

Great Epicurean
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

Olympic great Michael Phelps races a ‘great white shark’ as part of 2017 Shark Week. The shark was in-fact a computer simulation rather than a actual great white but its swim speed was calculated using data collected from the real thing. Phelps finished the 100m course in 38 seconds, two second…

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