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Darran Cusick Becomes An Iron Iceman Courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. Darran Cusick competed in the IISA Ireland 1k National Championships and swam in Team Global Tridents, a 35 km relay with Christine O’Brien, Lauren O’Malley, Dominic Mudge, Louise Darlington and Francie Haughey across the North Channel, and completed the Ironman Barcelona […]
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Open Water Swimmers Who Take Action Courtesy of Lily Moy, Southern Ocean, East Antarctica. Lily Moy is a 15-year-old high school student scientist and competitive swimmer interested in biology and specifically clean ocean initiatives, wildlife animal preservation, and global environmental protection. She looks to others for inspiration and guidance as she follows her passions. Lewis
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International Ocean Film Festival Postponed In San Francisco Courtesy of International Ocean Film Festival, San Francisco Bay, California. For the time being, some Americans are still going to theaters in order to watch movies, but that may change in due course. That policy has already impacted the International Ocean Film Festival. Currently scheduled for March
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Being Safe During Channel 7 Port to Pub Courtesy of Channel 7 Port to Pub, Leighton Beach, Fremantle to Rottnest Island, Western Australia. The Channel 7 Port to Pub with Hotel Rottnest is an ocean swimming event in Perth, Western Australia on March 21st that demands its challengers to cross the iconic Rottnest Channel. The
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Paul Georgescu Achieves Frosted Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Daimon Club, Bucharest, Romania. In February 2019, Paul Georgescu completed an Ice Mile at the Daimon Club in Bucharest, Romania in 3.02°C water and 8.00°C air temperatures in 22 minutes 43 seconds. With that swim, he achieved the Frosted Triple Crown
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Mariana Chevalier Santos Swims Travessia do Leme ao Pontal Courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Travessia do Leme ao Pontal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 16-year-old Mariana Chevalier Santos wrote her name in the history of open water as the youngest swimmer to complete the 36 km Travessia do Leme ao Pontal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Colin Bushweller, Monika Schmidova Win Ice Kilometer In Altenwörth Courtesy of Josef Köberl, SILVESTERSCHWIMMEN, Altenwörth, Austria. International IC Altenwörth in Altenwörth, Austria was held on February 15th. The water temperature was 4.80°C where the Ice Kilometer event was won by Colin Bushweller (12 minutes 43.2 seconds) and Monika Schmidova (27 minutes 7.40 seconds). Men’s 1000m
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As The Swimming World Is On Lockdown And Quarantines, Open Water Continues Courtesy of Ned Denison, Dublin, Ireland. Open water swimmers are, by most accounts, out-of-the-box thinkers and adventurous souls. Their venues of choice are oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, lochs, quarries and estuaries. Their personalities and characters lead these open water swimmers to recreate and
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Dramatic Prison Island Swim From Île d’If Courtesy of WOWSA, Île d’If, Marseille, France. Alexandre Dumas wrote an adventure novel in 1844 called The Count of Monte Cristo. In the 1844 novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantès escaped from the impregnable Château d’If where he had been unjustly sentenced to life imprisonment. He
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Jim Loreto Does Frosted Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Anne Arundel, Maryland. 46-year-old Jim Loreto is following in the wake of iconic personalities in the sport of open water swimming: * Craig Lenning * Elaine Kornbau Howley * Ned Denison * Gordon Gridley * Ciaran Byrne * Colleen Blair * Jaimie
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