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The Discovery Channel is looking for an entertaining, physically attractive Chief Shark Officer. The newly created job requires that the candidate have copious amounts of humor and enjoy exotic, waterfront locations and being scared in the midst of sharks. Looking delicious in a wet suit is a plus. The formal job description is fairly simple […]
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The Daily News of Open Water Swimming celebrates, promotes and reports on human endeavors, trends, attempts, times and results in the open water, but it is also reminds open water enthusiasts to take care when swimming near the Seabreacher X. The Seabreacher X, a submersible watercraft with a shark-style body, can breach the surface, launching
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If humans can’t walk straight or drive straight when blindfolded, should we be expected to swim straight in the open water with limited visual cues? National Public Radio‘s Robert Krulwich raises some interesting issues and prepared a report on movement under unusual circumstances. Animation by Benjamin Arthur. Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source
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Swim in the desert in the oasis established by DCB Adventures. DCB Adventures set its 2011 Arizona Open Water Swim Series dates: Swim 1 on April 30th in Saguaro Lake, Swim 2 on May 14th in Lake Pleasant Marina, Swim 3 on September 17th in Saguaro Lake, Swim 4 on October 15th in Lake Pleasant
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Olympian Mark Warkentin‘s interview on Open Water Wednesday is now posted online here. After finishing 8th in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he was admittedly not satisfied with his performance. But real life called and his son was soon born. He retired and started coaching. However, the allure of the
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Olympian Mark Warkentin of Santa Barbara will appear on an upcoming episode of Open Water Wednesday where he shares a variety of interesting observations from the 2008 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, his 28.5-mile race against the English Channel record holder Petar Stoychev around Manhattan Island and his road back after his un-retirement decision. Mark and
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Open Water Source has observed over the years how the fastest and the most accomplished open water swimmers have a relatively fast arm stroke turnover. Their turnover ranges from 73 strokes per minute for Philip Rush for over 28 hours in his English Channel three-way swim and Penny Dean’s spm pace in the mid-80s during
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The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim will be held on August 9-10 in Hyde Park in London. 25 men and 25 women will line up on the starting pontoon in front of a live TV audience and thousands of spectators. The selection process for those 50 elite open water swimmers begins this weekend in New Zealand’s
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Wayne Evans set a record in the 14°C (57.2°F) waters at the 1.9K Lake Te Anau crossing this weekend. His time of 22:42 water on Saturday morning came on the back of his scorching summer of fast pool swimming, but it also came as a pleasant surprise. “I couldn’t quite believe it when I got
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Somewhere after Sam Sheppard (second-straight victory in 12:42) and Harriet Brown (three-peat in 13:03) defended their titles at the 31st annual 1.2K Pier to Pub race in Lorne, Australia and somewhere in the middle of the 4,300-strong pack of swimmers, a bunch of Sharkbait swam shoulder-to-shoulder with their fellow open water swimmers…again. Sharkbait is the
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