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Gary Emich of San Francisco announced the inaugural Baykeeper TransBay Relay Benefit Swim. Baykeeper is the pollution watchdog for San Francisco Bay. Since 1989, Baykeeper has been holding polluters accountable and strengthening clean water laws for the benefit of the Bay’s water quality, wildlife and recreational users. The 9-mile, 3-person Swim on September 19th begins […]
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Karen Rogers aiming to be the first person since 1967 to swim from the Farallones, a group of islands 43K (27 miles) west of the Golden Gate Bridge to California mainland, has prepared diligently and planned operationally with Chris Blakeslee for her upcoming swim whose window of opportunity is between July 2nd and 7th. We
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Clark Little Gets Worked Over To Create Shorebreak Art Courtesy of Clark Little, Oahu, Hawaii. For any open water swimmer, the beautifully creative work of Clark Little is stunning. Flip through The Shorebreak Art of Clark Little once, twice, a hundred times and the beauty of the ocean – and Clark’s daring to take the
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World 5K champion Melissa Gorman of Australia gave her top ten tips for ocean swimming to Ultra Magazine. “I compete in the Australian circuit and numerous races overseas with my main focus being the world championship, Commonwealth or Olympic Games. But I enjoy the smaller ocean swims just as much. [Swims from South Africa to
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Chloe Mccardel won yesterday’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim with an outstanding crew who kept her going against second-place Jaime Caballero. “Many thanks to my wonderful paddler Niles Furlong who was assisted by paddler Richard Clifford, boat Captain Charlie Lehr, observer Bernard and my amazing support crew Paul McQueeney.” “The race was really tough. The whole
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 25-year-old Chloë McCardel of Melbourne, Australia went toe-to-toe with 35-year-old Spanish marathon swimmer Jaime Caballero of San Sebastian all day long – alternating in the lead – to nip him by less than 10 meters at the end and win the 2010 Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. McCardel follows the
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Both solist Karen Rogers and the Night Train relay of Vito Bialla, Phil Cutti, Paul Lundgren (shown on left), Matt Davie, Joe Locke and Michelle Deasy will take to the cold, rough, Great White Shark-filled environs between the Farallon Islands and San Francisco Bay on two major marathon swims coming up. The Night Train Swimmers
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The Sharkfest Swim Series got off to an unusual start in its 2010 season with a fogged-out swim at the Alcatraz kick-off swim last week. While many of the swimmers were disappointed, the race organizers rightly cancelled the swim due to the lack of visibility. “Even 100 yards from Alcatraz, we couldn’t see the island,
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The NYC Swim organization is on the cutting edge of marathon swimming technology again. The entire field will be tracked using GPS so family, friends and fans can follow each of the solo swimmers and teams as they stroke their way around New York in today’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. The full field can be
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Jim Boucher, Carole Laporte, Mark Gorry and Rory Fitzgerald will attempt to swim at least 50K in an unprecedented crossing between the Isle of Man to the Irish coast on June 20th. The Isle of Man is located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland where the four-person team will
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