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El Sharko Chris Blakeslee, who swims year-round in San Francisco Bay and is the race director of the South End Rowing Club’s 17th Annual Alcatraz Invitational, provides a video of what it is like to swim under the Golden Gate Bridge. View the swimmers here. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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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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Open Water Source enjoyed a day in South Africa with Martin Strel, known as the Big River Man. The Slovenian multiple world record holder cheered on the athletes at today’s Speedo 10km Challenge at Midmar Mile week while his passion and love for all things open water swimming was clearly evident from morning to evening.
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Based on research funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Harvard student Johannes Oeffner and Professor George Lauder found that the surface of high-tech swimsuits is not the element that helps improve swimming speed. But that is not to imply that the swimsuits enhance speed. “I’m convinced [the
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22-year-old Ashley Twichell traveled 34 hours from Mission Viejo, California to Pietermaritzburg in South Africa in time to compete in the Midmar Mile Speedo 10km Challenge. Her solid, evenly split time of 2 hours 2 minutes led the 24-person field from start to finish. With 2 days rest, she should have enough time to gear
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While experienced and qualified first responders (e.g., race officials, lifeguards, military personnel or event staff) are usually quick to respond and are essential to the overall health and welfare of all participants, many of the first responders in emergency situations in open water swims are other swimmers. Because so many swimmers help others in difficult
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Vidösternsimmet is a 21K open water swim in sjön (Lake) Vidöstern in Småland, Sweden. The race is traditionally held in August with the next race to be held on August 4th 2012. Vidösternsimmet is Sweden’s longest open water swimming competition that stretches from north of Osudden in Jönköping County to the Strait of Kronoberg in
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