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“It’s a cloudy day.” “A heavy marine layer is blanketing the coast of Southern California.” Those are words that are typically not welcomed to outdoor adventurists. But we view clouds positively, both in the cold of winter and the warmth of summer. Perhaps this perspective is due to our location in Southern California, but here […]
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Travessia 14 Bis is one of the longest-running and longest marathon swims in South America. The 24 km crossing is held in the Bertioga Channel between the island of Santo Amaro (Guaruja) and the Brazilian mainland near São Paulo, Brazil. The 45th edition is always supported by the Air Force Command Center Air Base Santos
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The Body Science Great Australian Swim Series is one of the world’s open water swim series with races in Coolangatta Beach (Great Gold Coast Swim), Whitehaven Beach (Great Hamilton Island Swim), Redcliffe (Great Brisbane Swim), and Sydney (Great Sydney Swim). [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Transponders in use at FINA competitions
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At a gala dinner in Melbourne, Australia, 2-time Olympian Melissa Gorman who won several open water swims throughout the year including nearly upsetting all the elite men at the 2012 RCP Tiburon Mile in San Francisco Bay received Swimming Australia’s Open Water Swimmer of the Year award. Trent Grimsey was acknowledged for his world record
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Open water swimming series are popping up all over the world. A series is defined as a number of open water swimming competitions or events that held in one consecutive season or year, and organized by the same individual or group that (a) are of the same type or distance, (b) tied together by cash
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Thomas Lurz was the well-deserving LEN (Ligue Européenne de Natation) Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year. For the fourth time (2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012), the German juggernaut was 3 seconds from a gold medal at the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim as he won his 27th international medal (Olympics, World and European Championships) in
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Éva Risztov, the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim gold medalist, who led much of the way in the Serpentine in front of over 30,000 spectators,was the well-deserving LEN (Ligue Européenne de Natation) Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Stroke by stroke, lap by lap, kilometer by kilometer. From one buoy to the next. From one feeding to the next. Swimmers count strokes, count laps, count loops, and count miles, over and over and over again. They are a methodical group of athletes, measuring time and distance repeatedly in their heads as they stroke
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In the State Paihia Classic, Round 1 of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series, English Channel record holder destroyed the field and nemesis Kane Radford. In Round 2 of the series, two more heavyweights are going mano-a-mano in the State Harbour Crossing in Auckland on December 2nd. 31-year-old Ky Hurst of Australia and 27-year-old
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