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According to the various sources and knowledgeable individuals, some of the most venomous creatures in the world live in the oceans. It can be very scary…and deadly. The Environmental Graffiti ranks the box jellyfish as #1 on the world’s most venomous animal list, followed by the Brazilian wandering spider, Inland Taipan (snake), blue-ringed octopus, and […]
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Youth Day Swim, part of the Freedom Swim Series, will be held at Camps Bay in Cape Town, South Africa on June 16th. The event has 2 distances: 1 or 2 mile races with the funds going to the SEAL Open Water Swimming Development Trust whose trustees include include Ram Barkai, Theodore Yach, Andrew Chin,
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The Daily News of Open Water Swimming will be reporting from the shorelines of one of the world’s greatest open water swimming celebrations, the Descenso a Nado de la Ria de Navia (Navia’s Downstream Swim). Started in 1958 when 14 swimmers swam 1 kilometer down the River Navia in a coastal village in Asturias, Galicia
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. For those open water swimmers in northern climes, preparation for cold-water swims is a natural. The year-round availability of cold water enables year-round training and the acclimatization process to ensure hardening. However, without easy access to cold water year-round, marathon swimmers who attempt cold-water lake swims, extreme swims or
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The mighty lead battleship U.S.S. Iowa, which is 270 meters in length and carried U.S. President Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Casablanca en route to a crucial 1943 meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, was scheduled to depart from San Francisco Bay. But due to a storm off of
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A masterfeedermixer is a coach, support crew member, parent, friend or volunteer who is responsible for preparing, mixing and feeding a marathon swimmer or channel swimmer on an escorted swim. The masterfeedermixer lays out everything before and during the swim and understands what kinds of foods and hydration the swimmer wants in precise detail, in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers can be expressive in a variety of ways: verbally or artistically. Some view their skin as part of that public expression. Below are numerous examples of open water swimmers from Boston to Brazil, Germany to Geneva – many of whom have marine animal-themed or ocean-specific tattoos
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Marathon swimmers love facing and overcoming everything the ocean can throw at them. And there are few places like the desolate Farallon Islands. 30 miles (48 km) west of San Francisco, the stretch of misery throws up barriers like few other places on Earth: rough water, cold water, jellyfish, tides, currents, the darkness of night
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Sarangani Bay Invasion is a 15 km open water relay swim from Kamanga Beach in Maasim to Glan as part of the Sarangani Bay Festival in the Philippines. The professional race was formerly known as the Swim-Across-the-Bay or the Across-the-Bay Open Ocean Swimming Competition where each team consists of 5 swimmers rotating legs across the
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Tim Stiff has done a variety of open water swims in South Africa: from the longer Lighthouse to Big Bay Swim, Cadiz Freedom Swim and Nelson Bay Bell Buoy Challenge to the shorter Speedo Ice Swim Africa. A polio victim at the age of 9 months, swimming is his only effective exercise. And it seems
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