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One of the world’s absolutely best open water swims, the Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean, the organizers provide numerous safety procedures and policies that are world class based on their decades of successful, safe swimming. One of their safety issues relates to the protection of swimmers in the water. The Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean […]
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The 1st International Masters Open Water Swim Race (第1回国際マスターズOWS弓ヶ浜大会開催) is a charity swim in Japan’s beautiful Izu National park for the tsunami relief. Three events are held in Yumigahama Beach (800-meter, 3K and a 2K relay) in the quiet, unspoiled, uncrowded town of Mizumi Izu. In keeping with the healthy lifestyle of the Japanese where
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We blink an average of once every four seconds in order to moisturize our eyes and protect them from irritants, but when our eyes are encased in plastic and enveloped in a body of water, does anything change? These are physiological questions that just came to mind. Inquiring minds want to know the answers: 1.
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Open Water Source and LiveSwim.net will stream today’s Waikiki Roughwater Swim live here. Watch several of the world’s fastest open water swimmers and thousands of others literally go head-to-head in some beautiful tropical waters here. Watch what they will see along the route: Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Norm Draper who served as the race director of the Atlantic City Pageant Swim for years gave the pre-race instructions to the field before today’s 1.5-mile race where large surf and strong currents made the conditions rough. But Norm collapsed after the race and was taken immediately to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Mainland Campus. His
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The Aussies won the Maui Channel Swim for the fifth straight time by tackling the inter-island course between Lanai and Maui in a non-traditional way. From all accounts, the inter-island race from Lanai to Kaanapali, Maui is 9.6 miles of hard swimming. While Peter Thiel captained the Tattersalls Australian Masters team to its fifth straight
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After 3 months of launch, nearly 5,000 postings have been added to Openwaterpedia. The online reference and research tool for the open water swimming community has entries posted in English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Japanese. Any language can be inputted, as well as photos, videos and hyperlinks. Anyone can enter or amend information in
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The Mexican American Unity Swim was a non-stop 108 nautical mile 6-person relay in Lake Powell, Arizona, U.S.A. over a three-day period. The swimmers used green and red-colored lights on their swim caps when swimming at night. In the pitch blackness in the lake near the Grand Canyon, two swimmers are shown in midst of
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Dimitris Kakalikas reported that Mauro Sebastiano Nappa of Italy won the 23rd annual 30K Open Water Swimming Marathon Kalamata-Koroni sponsored by the Nautical Club of Kalamata «POSEIDON» (ΝΑΥΤΙΚΟΣ ΟΜΙΛΟΣ ΚΑΛΑΜΑΤΑΣ «Ο ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝ») in the Messinian Gulf from Kalamata to Koroni, Greece. Mauro was followed by Dimitrios Archakis (7:58) and Panos Mpadouvanis (8:13) while two other
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In a thought-provoking article here on Paralympic athletes, Mike McNamee, Professor of Applied Ethics at Swansea University Wales, talked about the ethical challenges and opportunities that the International Paralympic Committee faces. Read his comments here that included this question: “If there were more people like…Natalie du Toit, who [has] participated at an elite level in
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