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19-year-old Lucas Ransom, a junior at University of California Santa Barbara, was a victim of a shark attack at the Vanderberg Air Force Base beach near Lompoc, California, 130 miles north of Los Angeles. The sudden attack came 100 yards from shore as the two friends were boogie-boarding. The Associated Press reported on the tragedy […]
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Gusts up to 30 miles per hour created some surface chop, but Collis Williams has maintained his lead on Day 3 in the Tex Robertson Highland Lakes Challenge in Austin, Texas. Collis won the shortest leg (2 miles) of the 5-day race, in 43:05. His leading aggregate time for the 8.4 miles covered over the
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The 2010 FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup series will culminate tomorrow in Fujairah in the UAE – and the races should be outstanding. In one corner is the series leader Olympian Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil (106 points in the season). In the other corner is fast-approaching Olympian Angela Maurer of Germany (96 points).
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On the first day of the Tex Robertson Highland Lakes Challenge in Austin, Texas, Collis Williams established his position in the lead with a time of 1:30:0 in the 3.75-mile Monster Challenge stage on Day 1. Sharon Smith is leading the women’s division with a time of 1:40:53. The Tex Robertson Highland Lakes Challenge is
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With the NYC Swim solo application deadline approaching on November 1st, it was interesting to learn the total number of times Manhattan Island has been successfully circumnavigated by solo swimmers since the island was first conquered. A total of 694 swims, including doubles and triples, have been completed since 1915. 51 of these swimmers are
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They say that New York City never sleeps. It is certainly true in open water swimming. As ten top marathon swimmers, including Dave Barra and other English Channel and Catalina Channel swimmers, prepare themselves for the 2010 season-ending 17.5-mile Ederle Swim from New York to New Jersey, another group of swimmers are in the final
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The Daily News of Open Water Swimming has traveled far and wide to five continents to cover open water swimming, but we have yet to run into any swimmer who documents, records and opines on open water swimming in as exquisite detail – in words, in photos and in video – as Rob Dumouchel. Swimming
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The allure of open water swimming seems to be increasingly attracting the attention of the television media. The first of thirteen broadcasts of the Speedo Ice Swim Africa is scheduled for October 25th on SuperSport 1 in South Africa. A 10-minute film about English Channel swimming will be broadcast on the Inside Out programme on
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True courage is often seen in various forms in the world of open water swimming. People of all ages, abilities and backgrounds often demonstrate the true potential of the human spirit. This past weekend in the Pacific Ocean visually-impaired Aaron Scheidies let us see courage through his efforts at the Distance Swim Challenge. Moments before
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The Santa Barbara Channel Swim Association enjoyed (weathered) an unusually harsh, cold, windy and bumpy summer season, but those conditions did not prevent three hardy swimmers from successfully completing their solo marathon swims from Anacapa Island to the mainland in Ventura, California. In August, Santa Barbara Channel Swim Association board member Dave Van Mouwerik kicked
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