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The First Intercontinental Swimming Relay from Eurasia to America across the Bering Strait is a 30-member 86K relay swim in July and August 2012. The Inter-regional Public Fund “100 years of the Submarine Fleet”, the Committee for Sport and Tourism of the Chukchi Autonomous Area, the Regional Public Organization in the Krasnoyarsky territory “Winter Swimming […]
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The 16K Faros Maratón Swim is also the annual Croatian International Long Distance Swimming Championships, and is truly an International celebration of marathon swimming excellence. 1,089 athletes from 42 countries (Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia & Herz, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece,
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Massimo Voltolina is an Italian endurance athlete who has completed triathlons, the English Channel and other long-distance events. He explains why marathon swimming is enticing to him, “It’s a way to get into deep contact with nature. When I am walking through the silence of the mountains I experience a special peace, when I swim
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While the internet has brought swimmers together for camaraderie and competition, dozens of open water swimming teams have been around for decades. SOWAT or the Shadow Cliffs Open Water Aquatics Team is celebrating its 30th year in 2011. The group of open water swimmers in the San Francisco Bay area in northern California offers an
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Like thousands of other playful swimmers around the world, the die-hard ocean swimmers in Orange County, California put a special twist on their weekly swim this week due to Halloween. Their colleagues in the State of Washington will be doing a social swim to Cutts Island in Gig Harbor: a Survivor/Adventurer Theme Party. They will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ecotourism, adventure travel, sustainable tourism, responsible tourism, nature-based tourism, green tourism have entered our lexicon with multiple meanings and interpretation. As our world gets smaller (figuratively) and the world’s population grows (literally), mankind’s impact on the environment will continue – both for the good and the bad. From the
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Everything Comes Up Roses, 100 Years Apart Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Rose Pitonof Swim was a 17-mile swim, founded by Deanne Draeger, from Manhattan Island to Coney Island in New York, U.S.A. The race is a replication of the first swim of this distance and course, completed by Rose Pitonof, a 17-year-old
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Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and a leading author, printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, diplomat and statesman of his day, is lesser known as an Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and Honor Contributor in the International Swimming Hall of Fame. As
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Selina Moreno Pasagali of Spain has much to live for after recovering from breast cancer. Shocked with malignant tumors in her breast, she went on the cross the Strait of Gibraltar in 4 hours and 40 minutes. In 2007, she crossed 14 kilometers across the Bocaina from Lanzarote to Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands off
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Anna Carin Nordin from Sweden has come a long way since she started swimming in Lidingö, a suburb of Stockholm. After an age-group swimming career that focused on sprints in a pool, Anna Carin, she started doing long races (as it was called back then in Sweden) in 1985, she participated in the Riddarfjärden in
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