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Endless Pools has a great online tool where you can simulate open water swims, including an English Channel crossing, a swim around Manhattan Island, a swim across the Bering Strait and many other famous open water swims from the Molokai Channel to the Cook Straits. Use the Endless Pools‘ virtual swim simulator to plot your […]
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Dave Van Mouwerik successfully completed a south-to-north crossing of Lake Tahoe on August 14th. Dave eloquently described his 13 hour 51 minute here (with such passages as “…the first eight and a half hours were excellent— swimming under a full moon, exquisitely calm water, the escort boat running with no lights, the muted lights of
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“He really knows how to put on an event. He really takes care of the athletes – the pros, the masters swimmers and the young kids,” said world champion Petar Stoychev. “His events are great down in South Africa.” That is very high and well-deserved praise about Michael Zoetmulder by a pro swimmer who has
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World 25K champion and 2012 Olympian Alex Meyer is scheduled to shift from his rounds of international competitions to a local eco-swim, the Race for Salem Sound in Massachusetts this weekend. The annual 500-meter, 1-mile and 5K races also serve as the 2011 New England Open Water Championship Races where more than 200 swimmers from
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Japanese swimmer Masayuki Moriya came back after a failed attempt across the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido last year to triumph over the channel this week in a wetsuit swim. The neoprene-clad Japanese coach completed one of the Oceans Seven channels in 11 hours 55 minutes. He had previously crossed the Tsugaru Channel in
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In much belated news, Peter Boronkay of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada successfully crossed Sakinaw Lake in British Columbia. He swam the 8-kilometer course in 5 hours 35 minutes on August 30th 2001. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Among the fastest open water swimmers in the world, especially among the female gender, there is plenty of physical contact in the 5K and 10K races around the turn buoys or by the feeding stations – and many place in between. Granted most of the physical contact is incidental and unintentional. The conflict is simply
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27-year-old Jared Halliday conquered the final challenge in his trilogy by swimming from Robben Island to Bloubergstrand in 2 hours 45 minutes this morning. This was Jared’s first Robben Island crossing, observed by Peter Bales, Chairman of the Cape Long Distance Swimming Association and accompanied by veteran Theodore Yach who completed his 61st Robben Island
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Richard Theiss of RTSea Productions filmed and produced this elegant black-and-white imagery of sharks in the Bahamas. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Petar Stoychev, the English Channel world record holder, the 11-time FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix champion and 25K world champion, took off some time to express his opinions about the sport he has dedicated his career to. Petar was asked at the most recent world championships, “How do we grow our sport?“, “What races
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