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Top 50 Open Water Swims In Asia In 2011 Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimming is exploding around the world. New swims and attempts at solo swims and relays in new locations are popping up on every continent. With the centre of the open water world still in Europe, growth in other […]
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Ted Erikson, The Thinking Swimmer Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ted Erikson, an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee, has always been active in research, swimming, and teaching. Now semi-retired and still in deep thought and still swimming, he is presenting tomorrow at the Illinois Science Education Conference in Tinley Park, Illinois on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As the Northern Hemisphere days get shorter, the nights get longer and the temperature lower, we are reminded of the five hardy teammates from Cape Town. Ram Barkai, Kieron Palframan, Ryan Stramrood, Andrew Chin and Toks Viviers, who completed the Patagonia Extreme Cold Water Challenge earlier this year at
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As swimmers prepare themselves on the shoreline to face the rigors of open water swimming, they truly stand exposed to the elements. Confident in their own skin, they do not need much equipment or many tools. At its very core, open water swimming is a primordial contest in which athletes are stripped nearly bare and
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Under the leadership of Bruckner Chase, the new Toa o le Tai program teaches open water swimming and ocean conservation. The program is inspiring youth to become American Samoa’s and the world’s ocean heroes and is now part of the curriculum at Samoana High School with plans to expand the program to schools throughout the
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From Stephen Redmond‘s Facebook page about his Oceans Seven attempt on the Molokai Channel, “…unfortunately Steve was pulled out of the water on safety grounds! He swam 5 miles in the first 2 hours and then hit a brick wall in the form of the ‘el nino’ current something that normally appears once every 10
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Every year, the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) honors its marathon swimming heroes and champions. The inductees of the IMSHOF Class of 2012 join 220 other members of this esteemed group of aquatic adventurers. Chris Green (Great Britain), Maarten van der Weijden (Netherlands), Larisa Ilchenko (Russia), David Parcells (USA) and Marcos Díaz (Dominican
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Abdul-Latiff Abou-Heif of Egypt was voted the best marathon swimmer of the 20th century. His summer of 1963 as a 34-year-old professional marathon swimmer was legendary. He started his season of dominance by winning the Capri-Naples swim, an 18-mile (28.9K) swim from the island of Capri to the city of Naples in Italy in 8
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According to Donal Buckley of the LoneSwimmer.com who is in contact with the Stephen Redmond team headquartered on Oahu and Maui, Stephen is attempting his fifth leg of the Oceans Seven today. With the Catalina Channel only recently completed, his body has little time to recover, but with 80% of his effort depending on his
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