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DURBAN, South Africa. Environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh gave a speech in Durban, South Africa this evening, the day before the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Leaders from different faiths and world leaders heard Lewis speak about the fight against climate change, ending with the following plea: The right to have our environment […]
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Claire Bennison, an English Channel swimmer, completed the charity Super Six, that involves swimming Loch Lomond (in Scotland), walking Ben Nevis (Scotland), walking Scarfell Pike (England), swimming Windermere (England), walking Snowdon and swimming Bala Lake (Wales). Claire walked over 10,000 feet up the three biggest mountains and swam over 38 miles in the three biggest
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I went last month, to Dover to swim, but the weather wouldn’t allow it, the wind blew hard, vigor and vim, and the Channel raged over & about it. So I plodded in the harbor, up and down, calling Mike Oram every day, to talk about the weather, and smile or frown, depending on what
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From Tunisia and American Samoa to North Alaska and Thailand, adults are recognizing the need to teach the next generation how to swim and, specifically, how to survive and save others in the open water. Organizers of the 18th Laguna Phuket Triathlon launched Laguna’s Swim Survival Program this week. Schools in Phuket, Thailand are bringing
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DURBAN, South Africa. Environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh will be giving a major speech tomorrow in Kings Park Stadium in Durban, South Africa. His speech, along with those by Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, will be covered by CNN, a day before the United Nations Climate Change Conference is scheduled to open. Leaders from
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Before searching online for a specific open water swimming training program for any distance whether it is for a one-mile swim or the English Channel, it is important to seek the advice and obtain the guidance from experienced coaches. Learn from other swimmers, talk to those who have done similar swims, but it is always
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This September, The Loveleys became the first all-female team and only third officially recognized team to complete a marathon swimming circumnavigation of the Isle of Wight. The Lovelies included 51-year-old Kathy Batts from Strood Kent, 43-year-old Paula Foreman from West Malling Kent, 30-year-old Liane Llewellyn from Bradford, 37-year-old Lucy Donnelly from Cumbria, 37-year-old Rachael Cretten
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Professor Ellen Shockro talks about her friend and fellow open water swimmer, Pat Gallant-Charette. Pat is an amazing woman. This year, 2011, she became the oldest woman, at 60, ever to complete successful swims of both the English Channel and the Catalina Channel. She hails from Maine, where opportunities to swim are limited to a
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Teresa Planas, a student at the Universitat de Barcelona, swam 39.8K (21.3 nautical miles) across the Menorca Channel (Canal de Menorca) from the Balearic island of Menorca to the island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea in September 2011, setting the overall world record in 12 hours 18 minutes 42 seconds. Born on Pòrtol on
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