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There are very few beaches to leave from or finish in when swimming across the Cook Strait between the North and South Islands. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Philip Rush explains, “Where we start from are sheer rocky cliffs straight up. So it is very hard and dangerous to completely clear the […]
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If you could swim in something other than water, what would it be? If a raisin is a grape with a sunburn, what is a swimmer with a sunburn called? The chances a pair of goggles will break is proportional to the importance of the swim and inversely proportional to the amount of time until
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The richest Australian, Gina Rinehart, is donating A$10 million to help provide funding to help support elite and up-and-coming pool swimmers, disabled swimmers and open water competitors. Known to be on track to become the first person to be worth $100 billion, the mining and media mogul explained her generosity, “Historically, Australian swimmers have performed
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In light of the heart-wrenching disasters that have wiped out homes, buildings, utilities, power plants, piers and the infrastructure of society along coastal areas of Japan, the Japanese Coast Guard has set up mobile phone base stations on boats in collaboration with domestic telephone companies. Envisioned to be utilized during coastal disasters when communication systems
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A 3-year $1.7 million study by Western Australia’s Department of Fisheries led by Dr. Rick Fletcher concluded that dawn and dusk are the most likely times for an attack may prove a fallacy. The research coming the last 20 years, numerous attacks and 10 fatalities in Western Australia shows sharks do not seem to care
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Swim Free is a New York City-based non-profit organization with a mission to get everybody in the water, safely and comfortably. Swim Free achieves its mission through three initiatives: (1) it donates goggles and swimsuits to underprivileged children (2) puts children and adults through learn-to-swim programs (3) helps people get over their fear of the
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Swimming With Paddles In The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Livermore, California. It is a rare occurrence when we take swim training equipment into the ocean. Very rare. But if the surf is up along the coast in Huntington Beach, California or down in Mexico, we have taken our training fins and a kickboard in
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Fundamental skills like body surfing and eggbeatering (treading water) are not absolutely essential to the success of open water swimmers, but mastering these skills can be helpful when going through heavy surf in an ocean race or stopping for a feeding break on a marathon swim. Eggbeater is a term used to describe effective treading
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The Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming is the sport’s equivalent of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Members of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming (Triple Corona in Spanish) has successfully completed three swims: (1) across the English Channel between England and France, (2) across the Catalina Channel between Santa Catalina Island and
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Open Water Swimming Bucket Lists As January rolls around, open water swimmers start to think about swims and seminars, tours and travel, clinics and crossings, and races and relays they will do in the new year. While swimmers participating in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and those attempting the English Channel have locked in their
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