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Land Ho! A poem by Gordon Gridley: Dreary days at sea – hoping Mirages floating. At last beholding – A shape of hope Through all the clouds At once, arriving blessed moment. Never again recurring From the times of sorrow to this time of silent joy. Time stops for such experiences. Copyright © 1994 by […]
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Culture Sport is a specialty open water swimming company founded in the United Kingdom by two innovative aquapreneurs, Aida Molina and Daniel Pagés. The two coaches with a flair for creativity develop, organize and promote seven different open water swims from Majorca to Costa Brave. They also offer five different training camps in the Mediterranean
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Inspiration comes in all forms for athletes of all shapes, sizes, ages and abilities: Every soul who comes to Earth, With a leg or two at birth, Must wrestle his opponents knowing It is not what is, It is what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible. And through pain,
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SAN ANTONIO. Denny Ryther was appointed as chairman of the Unión Americana de Natación (UANA or the Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas) Technical Open Water Swimming Committee. His tenure will be from November 2012 to October 2015. Denny, a long-time USA Swimming national open water swim team manager and administrator, will head an esteemed
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The world has innumerable locations for incredibly hard open water swims. Rough conditions, cold water, sharks, jellyfish, tides, currents, long distances, high altitudes and logistical considerations are the primary obstacles. What are some of the swims in the Northern Hemisphere that would be on the ultimate open water swimmer’s
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The famed Potato Patch is a shoal that forms a formidable shipping hazard outside the Golden Gate Bridge within the northerly course of swimmers who attempt solo swims and relays between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Farallon Islands. On rough days, the wide expanse of relatively shallow reef looks like white frosting on a
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CANADA. World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation was a non-profit corporation that governed the professional marathon swimming circuit in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. It was headquartered in Maryland USA when Herman Willemse (shown on right) was its President and Joe Grossman was its Secretary-Treasurer upon its adoption in 1967. The World Professional Marathon Swimming Federationn
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ENGLISH CHANNEL. More people have been in outer space than have swum across the English Channel. This oft-used quote is a dramatic indication how difficult it is to swim across the English Channel. But is it true? Open Water Source used the universally accepted data on astronauts from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and the English
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JC Malick and Lelané Rossouw-Bancroft of Newark, Delaware joined the South African, Czech and Irish colleagues in formally completing a one-mile ice swim in Avalon, New Jersey. “We jumped off the dock 11:15 and swam two half-mile loops to swim the mile in 38°F (3.3°C) degree water with air temperature at 25°F (3.8°C) and a
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Twins Chris And Matt Hales Create Goggles for Guppies Courtesy of WOWSA, Mission Viejo, California. 12-year old twin brothers Chris and Matt Hales swim for the Mission Viejo Nadadores in Southern California. Motivated after seeing the plight of disadvantaged children during an international swim meet in Mexico, the twin competitive swimmers took matters into their
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