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Swimsuit manufacturer FINIS has a special offer supporting next month’s Pan American Master’s swimming championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For a limited time, masters open water swimmers can pick up one of FINIS’s Velo technical swimsuit at a very special price for open water swimming competitors. Visit the FINIS web store and use code […]
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Terry cloth is a highly-absorbent fabric that has so many uses for the open water swimmer. Used to dry off, cleaning, wiping off sand, Vaseline or lanolin, sitting or lounging on the sand or ground, terrycloth is arguably the most essential material for aquatic athletes. It can be manufactured by weaving or knitting. The length
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Anna-Carin Nordin is a 41-year-old marathon swimmer from Sweden who swam 43.4K from Eckerö, Finland to Grisslehamn, Sweden in 14 hours 31 minutes under very rough seas. And now the former English Channel swimmer (12 hours flat) is in the warm waters waters of Hawaii, trying to tackle the tropically tough Molokai Channel. Talk about
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While perusing around SlowTwitch’s We Noticed, we noticed the crowded conditions at the swim start of the Norwegian Triathlon Championships in a photo (left) submitted by Dag Oliver. What were those kayakers thinking?!? Surely, they wanted to be close to the swimmers, but that close? In aerial photo submitted by Paul Jewkes of the Ironman
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I want to carry on with my life…she does so spectacularly… Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Michelle Macy, a renowned cold-water swimmer with records sprinkled across the Pacific Ocean who once failed to cross the Molokai Channel, went back to her warm-water haunt and successfully crossed from Molokai to Oahu, landing this morning on Sandy Beach on the eastern shores of Oahu. Traffic seems to be building up on the Molokai
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“The key was the start in the morning, as I knew this would be a long journey,” recalled Darren Miller of his 12 hour 12 minute world record swim in the Molokai Channel. “This swim was just so demanding, psychologically. There were so many logistical problems we had to overcome – tides, swells, win –
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Jose Diaz of Nadandolibre writes colorfully about the 15K Bocaina Swim in the Canary Islands. The swim is from Lanzarote to Fuerteventura. The 15K Travesia la Bocaina is organized by Oliver Acuña and the Club Triatlón Vulcano. The next swim is October 20th 2012. Courtesy of Jose Diaz; photo of Javier Sanz at Club Natación
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Ben Lecomte completed a cross-Atlantic swim in 1998 and then appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show where he announced a cross-Pacific Ocean swim (see below). 14 years after that announcement on Oprah’s TV show, Benoit is finally heading back to realize his dream…and with Oprah’s newly found interest in swimming, she may be covering more
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A marine hunt has been called in Western Australia for a Great White shark that killed George Wainwright from Texas who was diving off Rottnest Island. George, swimmer Bryn Martin and body boarder Kyle Burden have been killed by sharks along Australia’s long western coast recently. Fisheries Minister Norman Moore issued an order to kill
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