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Kelsey Jacobsen, an AmeriCorps Member for Coastal Zone Management for the Sitka Conservation Society in Alaska, is helping organize the 10K Sitka Sound Adventure Swim in Sitka, Alaska. The August 8th race is a, simply described, an adventure. The race can be done solo or as a 2- or 4-person relay, but the water temperature […]
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Throughout marathon swimming history from Matthew Webb in 1875 to Philip Rush in 1986, men have proven themselves to be incredible marathon swimmers. Abou-Heif, Claudio Plit, Cliff Lumsdon, John Kinsella, Kevin Murphy, Paul Asmuth, have all proven themselves. And the list goes on and on. But the female gender is also equally remarkable. Greta Andersen,
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Simon & Schuster will release Lewis Pugh‘s fascinating new book, Achieving the Impossible A Fearless Leader. A Fragile Earth on May 4th in London. The title of the 352-page hardcover book truly sums up Lewis‘ life and accomplishments. A former Special Air Service soldier who is called a Human Polar Bear, Lewis has swum long
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Can you swim 2 miles across the largest lake in the planet? That is the question that Scott Armstrong and Larry Johnson ask the participants in the growing Point to LaPoint Swim participants every year in August as they traverse across Lake Superior. The August 7th Point to LaPoint Swim to Madeline Island is 2
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The annual 3K Kenting Sea Swim is coming up on April 25th in the beautifully tropical Kenting National Park in the southernmost part of Taiwan. The mass participation swim is a 1.5K straight out to the Pacific Ocean and back where communal enjoyment in tropical waters and post-swim festivities – not competition – are the
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In a a new twist on the sport of open water swimming, Michael Zoetmulder created quite an event at the MTN Nelson Mandela Bay Splash Festival in Port Elizabeth, South Africa this weekend. After hosting the inaugural Ocean Racing Series World Championships and the 7K Bell Buoy Challenge, a totally new event, the King of
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Philippe Dubreuil of Canada competed for Canada at two World Swimming Championships, a Pan Pacific Swimming Championships and a Pan American Games, always representing his country well. He has recently graduated from Sherbrooke University with a Masters in Psychology and is in Quebec City working to improve team dynamics. Back at the 2009 USA Swimming
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Fashion, hair, cars, makeup, home interiors … humans like color. Humans enjoy color. Humans need color. Humans LOVE color. And blueseventy is leading the charge to bring color to open water swimming world. With the fabric suppliers pushing the envelope and working on the nano level to create more colorful fabrics, it is only a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Andreas of the New Jersey Race Club announced the Triple Crown series of the New Jersey Race Club, a series of 1-mile ocean swims along the . With hundreds of swimmers ranging from beginners to top-level college swimmers, ages from 9 to an incredible 87 year old, there are
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WCPO of Ohio reported that William Short and Robert Lucas were arrested as a result of some interstate swimming between Ohio and Kentucky when they crossed the Ohio River in Cincinnati near the Roebling Suspension Bridge. Their point-to-point, cross-current duo swim was the subject of WCPO‘s TV report here. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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