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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad is back at it. Tom Sims writes about Diana’s planned fourth attempt of the Florida Strait from Cuba to Florida in the New York Times (see here). The distance of 103 miles (168K) is not the primary obstacle. Sharks, she can handle and has the right people […]
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David Corney, race director of the Rottnest Channel Swimming Association, announced two major changes in the Rottnest Channel Swim, one of the world’s top 100 open water swims and its largest relay. In a nod to safety in the marathon swimming world, the Rottnest Channel Swim will (1) announce all shark sightings during the race,
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“To give you a feeling for the size of the Midmar Mile, typically we pull out about 600 people,” said Byron Dillon who has volunteered and participated in 30 of the 39 Midmar Mile events in Pietermaritzburg, the capital of the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The scale of the event is almost unimaginable
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USA Swimming introduced its new sanctioning process for open water swimming events. For safety reasons, all USA Swimming open water sanctions required approval by USA Swimming via its designated Zone Representative. Beginning in 2012, open water race directors must submit a Sanction Application and comprehensive Open Water Meet Application to their respective Local Swim Committee
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The day before the Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, guest swimmer Martin Strel spoke to a full house about his big river swims in the Amazon, Yangtze, Danube, Parana and Mississippi rivers as well as his 84 hour 10 minute non-stop solo swim in the Danube. He spoke how he faced anacondas, bull sharks,
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Geoff Dale will direct the annual Cohuna Bridge to Bridge, a 8K river swim down the slow-moving Gunbower River in Cohuna, Australia. The annual charity swim between two bridges started as a dare between two locals in 1992. The event offers a course that can be swum, run, paddled or biked. The swim raises funds
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Cadiz Swim Series is a succession of cold water ocean swim races in the Western Cape of South Africa that raises funds for good causes. Its race include the Cadiz Brian Curtis Mile (200m, 1 mile and 3 km), Human Rights Day Swim (3K), Cadiz Freedom Swim (7.5
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Over 600 swimmers are expected on February 12th at the annual Cadiz Brian Curtis Mile at the picturesque Eikenhof dam near Grabouw in South Africa. The event started in 1999 in memory of Brian Curtis, one of the founding directors of Cadiz Holdings Limited and a keen swimmer who died tragically in a motorcycle accident
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LoneSwimmer provided a list of phobias that are relevant to the open water swimming world here. Donal Buckley describes Cnidophobia as a fear of stings…[whereas] surprisingly there is no specific clinical phobia for jellyfish. Upon further research, it appears there may be a linguistic connection of this phobia to jellyfish. Although Cnidophobia is a morbid
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English Channel and Strait of Gibraltar swimmer Adam Walker is taking his global channel tour to Hawaii. After a solo and two relays across the English Channel and the first two-way crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar by a British swimmer, together with Chris Sheppard, Adam is planning a charity swim on behalf of the
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