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For more than 20 years, Dr. Louane Brizendine has been studying the differences between the male and female brains. The neuropsychiatrist and author of The Female Brain and The Male Brain writes, “…the female brain has tremendous unique aptitudes — outstanding verbal agility, the ability to connect deeply in friendship, a nearly psychic capacity to […]
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John Caughlin provides updates on his recovery here. John, a 41-year-old swimmer from Half Moon Bay (California) was nearing completion of a solo 9.6-mile Maui Channel Swim and was close to the Maui coast when a boat hit him. His blog clearly demonstrates what a fine individual is, well-liked and well-respected by those who know
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Let’s say you are 1 kilometer from the next turn buoy. If you are capable of swimming straight, you have 1000 meters to swim. But no one swims perfectly straight all the time, especially when there are lateral currents, waves or surface turbulence to account for. What happens when you make a 1° mistake in
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Six Mexican prisoners managed to swim 60 miles in an escape attempt from the Islas Marías Federal Prison on Isla María Madre. The famed prison is located on Isla María Madre, the largest island of the Islas Marías archipelago off the western coast of Mexico. Established in 1905, the Islas Marías Federal Prison is situated
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After wondering if open water swimmers are truly and naturally protected from sharks by dolphins and porpoises as is commonly believed by many channel swimmers, there are a wide variety of opinions on this topic. Many open water swimmers believe that if dolphins or porpoise are near them in the open water, there is no
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“That is going to be the tricky thing – swimming for a short 20-minute swim for 4-5 times over a 24-30 hour period,” explained British extreme swimmer Jack Bright about the most extreme relay swim possible – a crossing of the entire width of the Bering Strait, slight below the Arctic Circle. Alexander Brylin, President
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The Special Olympics World Summer Games offered open water swimming for the first time in its history. The inherent danger, the potential risks and the numerous issues involved in putting individuals with intellectual disabilities in the sea were overcome by a team of committed volunteers in Athens, Greece, led by Chrysostomos Giannoulakis and Katerina Kaloudi,
CNN broadcast an overview of triathlon tips from two top-ranked brothers – Alistar and Jonathan Brownlee from Great Britain. Alistair is a two-time triathlon world champion and one of the favorites heading into the 2012 London Olympics. Alistar’s younger brother Jonathan, finished second to him at the 2011 world championships in 2011. Similar to the
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TUNISIA. Nejib Belhedi was nominated for the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year and is making a huge impact on the youth of Tunisia. He and his support team made promotional trilingual stickers – in French, Arabic and English – that promote Nejib Belhedi as a WOWSA nominee in a message that
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Open water swimmers can do their part to help the environment. While recycled racing swimsuits or biodegradable goggles have not yet been developed for the market (other than the wood goggles of the South Pacific), several eco-friendly companies make different types of swimwear from recycled materials. Eco Swim makes a strapless one-piece from recycled nylon
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