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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
…their classroom is the ocean … we look at the ocean differently when we use it … listen below how Bruckner Chase frames the discussion at the BLUEMiND conference in the Outer Banks, North Carolina about the incredible potential of Samoan tradition. Chase talks about merging this Fa’a Samoa with the ancestral knowledge of moving […]
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Go with the flow and open water swimming is easier. Go against the flow (tides, currents) and open water swimming can be frustrating, tiring and an act of slow-motion progress. Purposefully going against the tides feels…well…satisfying to finish. Facing this ebb and flow is what 6 swimmers of the Chalkwell Redcaps will do in 6
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The GADD (GaddinAbtGarnish 2012) is back. “It is a meandering swim with 1 km, 3 km and 5 km options, something for everybody. It is not a race. This year, we have loads of novices again. Some swimmers from last September’s event are moving up a step to 3 km,” says Oswald Schmidt, the race
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There is a free 1-mile open water swim in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts on June 16th to honor International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famer Jim Doty. The bedrock of the New England open water swimming community, he dedicated his life to promoting swimming and a clean environment in New England waters. His legacy will be celebrated
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9,762 adult swimmers, from Olympians to newcomers to the world of aquatics, are heading their way to Riccione, Italy to participate in the 14th FINA World Masters Championships. The organizers in the seaside town found their most popular event was the 3 km open water swim. Among all the butterflyers, backstrokers, breaststrokers, freestylers, relay members
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Allen Collins, curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and Evan Orellana of the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton, reported that the dreaded and extraordinarily venomous box jellyfish has started to appear in Florida in much greater numbers. “We’re seeing this happening everywhere all over the planet. Species
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After holding its first few Olympiad swimming competitions in the open water (Aegean Sea at the 1896 Athens Olympics, Seine River in the 1900 Paris Olympics and a man-made lake in the 1904 St. Louis Olympics), the first marathon swim in Olympic history was held in 2008. The historic event took place in a 2+
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This August 9th (women) and 10th (men) the marathon swims come to the Serpentine in Hyde Park at the 2012 London Olympics. This seminal event will be followed up in Copacabana Beach for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Copacabana Beach is, arguably, one of the few places on Earth that can showcase marathon swimming to an
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Japanese open water swimmers Yasunari Hirai and Yuto Kobayashi have a lot to face to in this Sunday’s 2012 FINA Olympic 10km Marathon Swimming Qualifier. Not only must they finish in the top 15 among 62 other men with similar dreams to qualify for the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim, but they must also face each
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Brent Rutemiller wrote a commentary on FINA’s follow-up to the tragic death of Fran Crippen who died in a FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup event in the United Arab Emirates in 2010. His commentary is posted here. Rutemiller‘s observation is that FINA has yet to legislate a standard on a maximum water temperature. In
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