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Richard Broer reported with great sorrow that 1968 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Jan van Scheijndel of The Netherlands passed away at the age of 73 on March 3rd. “He was truly a great man,” said Dale Petranech, Honorary Secretary of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Richard described Jan, who was the […]
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Japan has 108 active volcanoes and experiences destructive earthquakes and tsunamis several times each century. During these times, the strong character of the Japanese people shines. They help each other, they reach out, they form even closer bonds with their neighbors and countrymen as they struggle in their recovery time and time again. After the 8.9-magnitude
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Julieta Núñez and Ricardo ‘Cate’ López, both from Santiago, Chile, began their two-year preparation for their Antarctica swim with research, commitment and expert assistance. They boostered their training by doing several swims that culiminated in their 2-year mission to do a 1-mile swim in Antarctica. Their preparation for Antarctica included swims across the Chacao Channel
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Extreme swimmers Ram Barkai and Andrew Chin (shown on left) first whet their open water swimming appetite on the Orange River Challenge. Characteristically, they did not simply dip their toes in the open water – then went full bore to the extreme. Their goal: to swim down the Orange River with a team of swimmers and cover a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Penny Palfrey spent the night before her Molokai Channel swim in an evacuation center on Molokai due to the tsunami warnings that were into effect throughout the state of Hawaii due to the devastating earthquakes in Japan. At 10:30 pm the night before her planned swim, Penny and her
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English Channel, Molokai Channel, Catalina Channel and Manhattan Island Marathon swimmer Michael Miller of Honolulu training on the south and north shores of Oahu and picks up fishing weights along the way. He can’t help himself and has picked up quite a collection over the years. “I have even collected a few anchors. It has
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Catalina Channel record holder Barbara Held is on a mission … to conquer as many channels and waterways as possible. Together ith La Colla Cove (California) training partner Kevin Anderson, the duo travel far and wide to get ready for their marathon swims. “The water temperature at the Cove is too cold to prepare well for
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The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation announced new safety measures. Paul Selby explained, “We encourage every swimmer, kayaker, and supporter to visit the page and become acquainted with them. We feel it’s important — for everyone’s safety — to make a few significant changes to the rules.” • The age limit for support crew on any
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Britta Kamrau, an intense athlete and intellectual from Germany, won over 25 FINA World Cup and Grand Prix races over the course of her International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame career. In oceans, lakes, rivers and bays on five continents, she mixed it up with the best and won many closely fought, marathon races. Britta
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Michael Spalding of Maui and Linda Kaiser of Oahu shared their experiences with sharks, box jellyfish, Portuguese Man-o-War, currents and waves during their two-decade history of crossing nine Hawaiian Island channels. They will soon appear on Open Water Wednesday together with stories that will surprise, educate and motivate both the seriously-minded channel swimmer and those
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