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Ben Stubenberg provided this update on the first race of the West Indies Bluewater Swim Series 2011, the Nevis to St. Kitts 2.5-mile Cross Channel Swim: The 9th annual 2.5 StarMile 2.5 Nevis to St. Kitts Cross Channel Swim ended in a photo finish by two world-class athletes: Olympian triathlete Olivier Marceau from Switzerland and […]
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Swim 22 On WOWSA Live Courtesy of WOWSA Live, Huntington Beach, California. This week’s WOWSA Live featured Swim 22 – the quartet of Catalina Channel swimmers including David Hartmire, Mike Vovk, Jen Schumacher and Chris Dahowski. The group shared their story and their collective thoughts and challenges faced during their four-way, four-person solo channel attempt.
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A video summary of the Protecting Athletes – Open Water Swimming Safety Conference is shown here. A large thank you goes to Pacific Masters Swimming and U.S. Masters Swimming for its vision and support for this conference. The assembled open water swimming community received some great perspectives and advice from their triathlon colleagues, including Liz
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Paulo Passos Leite is race director for the King and Queen of the Sea Europe event (Rei e Rainha do Mar Europa) in Portugal. The race is held in a man-made lake where the winners are sponsored to attend the King and Queen of the Sea world championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – one
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kate Alexander of the Cayman Islands is calling all quilters. In cooperation with Maddy Crippen, Alexander is looking for quilters to help create a Safe Swim Open Water Swimming quilt to benefit the Fran Crippen Elevation Foundation. Alexander explains, “Quilters and sewing artists are asked to donate fabric for
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The St. Vincent’s SWIM Across The Sound is on the short list of long swims. It is one of the world’s most well-organized marathon swims of at least 16K. The 24rd annual 25K event to be held on August 6th is now open for online registration for all swimmers and team relays who wish to
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If Americans wish to participate in the Varadero Beach, Cuba V International Cup with an open water swim on April 10th, they can take Bahamasair and coordinate with Alejandro Calafell of the Altamar International Travel Agency. “For the first time, it will be easy for Americans to travel to Cuba from USA,” said Jorge Estevez
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The 2011 British Gas Great North Swim is the first open water swimming event in Great Britain to go over the 10,000 mark. Not meters. But participants. The majestic Lake Windermere, the crown jewel of Britain’s Lake District, will host at least 10,000 swimmers of all shapes, sizes, ages, backgrounds and abilities on June 17th
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Jamie Patrick announced that on April 21st, NBC/Universal will air a 30-minute film on his double crossing of Lake Tahoe of 2010. Prav Potu,a talented filmmaker, created a documentary built from the random footage that Jamie’s team shot in 2010. The dates and times the documentary broadcast on Universal Sports are as follows: 7 pm
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Open water swimmers and their coaches and crew communicate in a variety of ways – via hand signals, shouting, pointing or with a whiteboard. But Dave Barra and his crew member John Humenik aboard Paul Foreman’s escort boat, the Pace Arrow, on an English Channel crossing used a more explicit and direct form of communication:
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