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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 20.2 miles (32.5 km) between Santa Catalina Island and the Southern California mainland is a marathon swim achieved 265 times by 227 people since 1927. From the well-documented Wrigley Ocean Marathon Swim in January 1927 in tough conditions, leaving in mid-day into 54 waters, when only George Young of […]
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History will be repeated in the center of Paris at the new Traversée de Paris á La Nage that will be held on September 2nd. The 2.5K and 10 km open water swims head down the Seine River in the center of Paris. The Paris á La Nage will start at the Josephine Baker pool
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Open water swimming is a beautiful sport where athletes interact with nature in the most raw of situations. But every sport can have its gross parts and open water swimming is no different. Here are some ideas of what to expect in the gross-out department of the sport of open water swimming. Some things are
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It seems contemporary oceans are returning to their primordial make-up the way jellyfish populations are growing throughout the world. Ocean Care Solutions reports the following trends, scary for open water swimmers: • The population of the pink meanies in the Gulf of Mexico is exploding. The pink meanie skips the peanut butter, but it eats
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FINA President Dr. Julio Maglione announced the first FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships that will be held in the Niagara Falls area in Welland, Canada between August 16-19, 2012. “This new competition gives our young open water stars an opportunity to compete at the highest level.” As the newest aquatic discipline governed by
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For anyone who kayaks, escorts or paddles for open water swimmers, triathletes or channel swimmers, Liquipel offers a completely different way to communicate with the outside world. By Liquipeling your mobile phone, your mobile device becomes completely waterproof. Taking your smart phone on your kayak, escort boat or paddle board now becomes a reality. With
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Over 300 people braved uninviting weather on H2Open Day where Olympic bronze medalist Cassandra Patten presented the winners of the 2012 H2Open Awards at the inaugural ceremony organized by H2Open Magazine. The awards, designed to celebrate achievement in open water swimming, received over 200 nominations across the eight categories. A distinguished panel of judges then
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Another race in the Miromar Lakes proved another demonstration of the strength, high navigational IQ and the increasing confidence of Ashley Twichell. The recent Duke University graduate who moved to the Mission Viejo Nadadores in Southern California specifically to train for the Olympics won another USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Championship today in the 5
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Ray Tsuchiyama wrote the history of swimming the channels in Hawaii with some interesting back stories about the Maui Channel, for the Maui News. He describes the first crossing by Jim Caldwell whose swim in 1970 set the stage for over other swimmers who have since crossed the 8.8-mile Maui Channel between the islands of
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Whether you are in Mexico or interested in a major international competition, Christian Palma is a photographer whose work you probably have already seen. He took a number of outstanding photos at the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix event in Cancún, Mexico including this one of Andreas Waschburger taking some hydration during the 15
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