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Cancún, Mexico. The Por La Libre Cancun to Isla Mujeres race is one of the world’s top swims. The two-race event, organized by Rafa Hernández, is held between Cancún Island to the magnificent Isla Mujeres in Quintana Roo in southern Mexico. The Pirates Night was used during the 2009 and 2010 events as a guide […]
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The 9th annual San Francisco Ocean Film Festival is expanding to Asia and simultaneously launching in Hong Kong on March 9th – 22nd. The dual ocean film festival will feature over 40 films, short and long, that explain, explore, educate and entertain on topics ranging from wildlife, conservation and sharks to culture, adventure and adrenaline.
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Gurtej Singh Bains, one of the managers of The Longest Swim talks about Ben Lecomte‘s stage swim across the Pacific Ocean. Not only is Ben‘s 5,419-mile, 6-month swim from Choshi, Japan to San Francisco, California a physical and mental feat of unfathomable proportions, but he will perform the swim so fans can watch him do
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimmers from all around Northern California and the Pacific Masters Swim Committee jam-packed into a meeting room in Walnut Creek, California to learn the basics of swimming a 10K. Open water experts Lisa Hazen (shown on left), Suzanne Heim-Bowen, Dave Brancamp, Morgan Filler and Suzie Dods explained how to
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Gotta like focus. And that is what Jay Peluso has. While many triathlon coaches provide programs for all three sports in addition to nutrition and dryland, Jay remains focused on the tactics, training and techniques of open water swimming. Peluso Open Water is Midlothian, Virginia is his home base where he runs an masters swimming
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Cancún, Mexico. The Por La Libre Cancun to Isla Mujeres race is one of the world’s top swims. The two-race event, organized by Rafa Hernández, is held between Cancún Island to the magnificent Isla Mujeres in Quintana Roo in southern Mexico. The inter-island ocean course is held in crystal-clear water waters that can occasionally become
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Open Water Source was privy to one of the most fascinating and beautiful open water swimming brochures ever created. Sergey Novikov, Founder and President of the Russian American Community Association and President of Meeting of the Sun North America, will soon launch a website and distribute a brochure with powerful imagery and inspirational information of
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Saarbrücken, Germany. Hannes Vitense of Germany is pushing his athletes to reach their potential in a number of ways…all in good fun. “We began 2004 a very big project here in Germany at one of the world’s most modern training centers for swimmers and triathletes in Saarbrücken. The plan has been in the works for
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It did not take long for the formality of the Lake Tahoe Swimming Society (LTSS) to excite the marathon swimming community. Within weeks of its formation, 9 athletes have signed up to swim the length of the 21-mile lake high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains between the states of California and Nevada. “Times are
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END-WET, which stands for the Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test, is a 26-mile mixed-sports event where solo swimmers and relay swimmers pit themselves against other endurance athletes down the Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and Oslo, Minnesota. Produced by the ENDracing, the July 21st event includes kayakers, surfskiers, stand-up paddle boarders as
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