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Open Water Source offers Virtual Swim, an entertaining educational and motivational software for recreational, competitive, masters and open water swimmers. Virtual Swim enables you to view animations of Olympic champions in 26 different angles at different speeds. Animations of actual Olympic and world champions can be seen in the Single Module and Quad Module. In […]
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The prefecture and city of Osaka in Japan are moving forward with their plans to create a 1-kilometer pool. The proposed Dotonbori Pool will feature large spaces for advertising in order to subsidize the largest pool open to the public in a major metropolitan area. The pool will open in 2015 on the 400th anniversary
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Jack Bright completed a swim in a frozen Lake Bled in Slovenia. “They are trying to develop winter swimming there after holding the world championships in 2010. I swam 550 meters in a 13m pool cut from the ice,” said Jack. “Dizziness was the biggest problem at the end, not cold. It is certainly a
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Joe Locke is going to attempt the unprecedented in the Farallon Islands. Joe will jump into low 50°F (10°C) water flowing out pass the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco Bay to the Farallon Islands, 30 miles to the west of California. Although Stewart Evans and Ted Erikson have swum in the opposite direction and
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The Bente Weber Memorial Swim (or the StarMile 2.5 Nevis to St. Kitts Cross Channel Swim) is a 4.2-kilometer (2.5-mile) channel swim across the “Narrows“. It also known as the Bente Weber Memorial Cross-channel Swim. Swimming in the Narrows between the two islands of the smallest nation in the Americas in both area and population
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Ned Denison, one of the global leaders in the marathon swimming world, will be deservedly honoured by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame at its annual induction ceremonies. Ned who first proposed the Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims (or Triple Break) and who created the Cork Distance Week, stands tall in the channel
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The Cyprus Swimming Federation organizes the 5K and 10K Cyprus International Swimming Marathon (International Marathon 5 & 10 km Limassol). Cyprus is a popular tourist island destination in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, east of Greece and south of Turkey. According to Michael Tyson, the course has small buoys every 250 meters and a large turn
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As a group, there is no collection of open water swimmers as focused and passionate about open water swimming than marathon swimmers. They spend the most amount of time in the water and they spend the most amount of money on their sport. They often train year-round for a swim that can depend on the
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At the end of the swim, do you congratulate a swimmer with a fist bump? A high five? A hug? A man hug? A handshake? A kiss? A pat on the back or shoulder? A wink? A smile? A toast? A group cheer? A fist bump (or a bro fist, fist pound, knuckle bump)? Is
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Martin Strel will be getting some serious face time on American television this summer. Martin will be the subject of two separate documentary looks at his stage swim exploits in the History Channel and the National Geographic Channel. Stay tuned for air dates and times. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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