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Quinn Carver, Bill Goding, Brian Denaro and Jen Schumacher swam 17 miles from Kauai to Niihau, but their swim was punctuated with action rarely seen in marathon swimming world. First, there were sharks. Jen explained, “[Escort boat] Captain Don barked at us to get in close to the boat and stay there. He told us […]
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While 60-year-old Diana Nyad makes her final preparations for her swim from Cuba to Florida, possibly towards the end of this week, she will be making history by attempting the 103-mile (165K) swim without a shark cage unlike the other swimmers in history who have attempted this swim with a shark cage. One of these
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The myriad logistics, financial preparations and contingency plans that go into such swims as the Camlough World Record Relay in Ireland, the Lake Taupo World Record Relay and the Extreme Dream are nothing but staggering. Swimmers, coaches, pilots, support crew and volunteers put their lives on hold to help open water swimmers realize their dreams.
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Captain Tim Johnson, an inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and author of the History of Open Water Marathon Swimming, brings us a slice of swimming history about one of the early pioneers of the sport: In 1904, 17-year-old Australian Annette Kellerman, enjoyed success in her early part of her career, setting
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At the 22K IJsselmeermarathon Stavoren – Medemblik in the Netherlands, there is a brother-sister lock on the record book. The personable Olympic 10K Marathon Swim gold medalist Maarten van der Weijden, who was on his recovery road back from leukemia, set the record for the fastest crossing in 4 hours and 20 minutes in 2004.
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TUNISIA. Lt. Colonel Nejib Belhedi, a Channel Swimming Association representative and promoter for the Dialog Across the Seas, shared the story of the Belhedi Trophy and its relationship to the Maghreb countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania and the Western Sahara. “In my preparation for his Channel attempt, the Tunisian Ministry of Defence provided
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Chris Dahowski, Team Captain of Swim22, the Contiguous Solo Crossing Relay across the Catalina Channel, will swim shoulder-to-shoulder with some famous swimmers in the Grand Finale on October 6th. Chris and his three teammates will attempt to do four consecutive channel crossings, with each swimming a solo Catalina Channel crossing. Each subsequent swimmer will be
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Daily News Correspondent Kate Alexander had a blast at the Middle Tennessee Swim Club‘s weekly open water training under the tutelage of U.S. Masters Swimming Coach Ron Chlasta On Thursday evenings after work, Coach Ron opens up his own backyard for swimming in Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, Tennessee. “Coach Ron’s Thursday group is now
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Jamie Patrick completed a wetsuit-clad 44-mile double-crossing of Lake Tahoe in 25 hours and 26 minutes on August 15th. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming asked him a variety of questions regarding his day- and night-long exploit. The Daily News: How did you prepare yourself mentally for this swim? Jamie With psychologist Paige Dunn.
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Hawaii’s Jeff Kozlovich will kayak for and report on a 17.5-mile Kaulakahi Channel swim from the island of Kauai to the privately-owned Forbidden Island of Niihau by Bill Goding, Quinn Carver, Jen Shumacher and Brian Denaro. The first Kaulakahi Channel crossing was done by Linda Kaiser, Laurie Foster, Mike Spalding and Tom Robinson in 2003
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