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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad has reportedly cleared the political and visa issues that had delayed her improbable, incredible, inconceivable 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida. The 60-year-old evidently places no bounds, no limitations, no restrictions on her ‘Extreme Dream‘ as she calls it. Implausible, perhaps. Impossible, naught. Sometime next week, depending […]
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Chris Dahowski, Mike Vovk, David Hartmire and Jen Schumacher (shown on left) will do a Contiguous Solo Crossing Relay across the Catalina Channel. What is a Contiguous Solo Crossing Relay? A Contiguous Solo Crossing Relay is a swim where any number of athletes completes consecutive point-to-point solo swims or circumnavigations of any duration, length or
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In order to promote the last leg of his Swim Across The Continents, Marcos Díaz is planning a swim from the United Nations. Since May, Dominican Republic’s Marcos has engaged an innovative and ambitious project called the ‘Swim Across The Continents‘ for the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. Marcos has swum between the Pacific and
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The Night Train Swimmers are teaming up with three outstanding Mexican endurance swimmers to attempt a non-stop open water swimming relay world record. The swim, billed as the Mexican American Unity Swim 2010, is expected to take an estimated 60 hours. Vito Bialla, Matthew Davie and Phil Cutti from the San Francisco Bay area and
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In the midst of one of the busiest seasons in English Channel swimming history, the marathon swimming community is abuzz today about the 135th anniversary of Captain Matthew Webb’s first successful crossing of the English Channel in 1875. According to Michael Oram, Captain Webb set off of Admiralty Pier in Dover harbour to start his
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Permanently Celebrating The Manhattan Island Marathon Swim Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As part of the ongoing collection of open water swimming tattoos from swimmers around the world, Canadian Rob Kent sent in his Manhattan Island Marathon Swim tattoo. “The guy who had done my other three tattoos couldn’t do this one because he
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In researching about Diana Nyad‘s upcoming swim between Cuba and Florida, scheduled for next week, The Daily News of Open Water Swimming talked with Skip Storch who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 2009 and learned his record-setting double-circumnavigation and triple-circumnavigation of Manhattan Island came at the end of a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Teenager Ling Kou-yen and Deborah Kuo reported from Taipei that Xiamen – Kinmen Swim between Taiwan and China in 1:34:0, only three seconds ahead of Taiwan’s Lin Yange of China. Hong Kong’s here. here. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming understands the race organizers really want to make
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On August 22nd, one of the world’s top 100 open water swims, the Damme–Brugge Open Water Swim, celebrated its 100th swim this year. Held in the freshwater Canal Hoeke – Sluis in Belgium, the race is a 5 km straight-line course from Damme to Brugge where athletes can swim
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The North (Irish) Channel has them. The Kaieiewaho Channel has them (between Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii). They are all over the place in each ocean of the world. But several people have tried to cross Monterey Bay, south of San Francisco, and the jellyfish have stopped them. The massive amounts of venom were just
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