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Meeting People Along The Shore Courtesy of Lewis Pugh, Arabian Sea. Photos courtesy of Kelvin Trautman. Back in August 1994, Lewis Pugh swam 7 marathon swims to encourage governments to establish Marine Protected Areas. Pugh‘s campaign was called Seven Swims In The Seven Seas For 1 Reason: * 10 km in the Mediterranean Sea in […]
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Daily Medicine By Wayne William Snellgrove Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wayne William Snellgrove, a Saulteaux Indian, is an open water swimmer who started swimming in New Jersey after being taken from his birth mother at the Fishing Lake First Nation Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. He wrote Daily Medicine, a spiritual prayer book, contains
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Alisa Fatum Breaks Ice Ceiling Courtesy of Christof Wandratsch, Veitsbronn, Germany. Greta Andersen, Judith van Berkel-de Nijs, and Shelley Taylor-Smith are in an exclusive club of open water swimming women over the last 70 years who have competed against their male counterparts mano-a-mano and beat them in the 2.8°C water. Alisa Fatum has now joined
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Fergil Hesterman, Kyra Wijnker Win Ice Kilometer In Volendam Courtesy of Openwater swimming club and Zwembad De Waterdam Edam Volendam, International Ice Swimming Association, zwembad De Waterdam Edam/Volendam, Netherlands. Dutch ice swimmers Fergil Hesterman and Kyra Wijnker threw down some pretty fast 500m and Ice Kilometer times at the Ice Swimming Volendam event on January
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Plastic Disclosure Project from Thornberg & Forester on Vimeo. Animals Don’t Like Swimming Through Plastic And Neither Do Humans Courtesy of Lily Vivian Moy, Hong Kong. The Plastic Disclosure Project (PDP), founded by Douglas Woodring and Erik Floyd in 2010, aims to provide solutions to the growing plastic crisis by allowing companies and businesses to
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2020 Cold Half And Cold Plunge In Hong Kong Courtesy of Natalie Kwan. Photos courtesy of Cheung Ka Wai, Hong Kong. 40 solo and relay swimmers competed in the 15 km Cold Half Extreme Marathon Swim course from Stanley to Deep Water Bay in Hong Kong today along with the 1.5 km Cold Plunge event.
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Irish Sea Swim for The Gavin Glynn Foundation from The Gavin Glynn Foundation. Irish Sea Swim Relay From Holyhead to Dublin Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Holyhead, Wales to Dublin, Ireland across the Irish Sea. 6 swimmers – Ger Kennedy, Richard Dunne, Ger Devin, Dee Newell, Anna Mc Carthy and Garreth Mc Dermot – swam 94
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Easter Eggs Litter the Beach In New Jersey…Literally Courtesy of Lily Vivian Moy, Ocean City, New Jersey. As the world’s wealthy, financiers and politicians head to Davos, Switzerland for the annual World Economic Forum, environmental issues are expected to be top of mind. While the world’s elite debate environmental issues, much more can be done
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Marathon Swimming Hall Of Famers At The Olympics Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Members of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame have been competing, coaching, and administering at the Summer Olympic Games since the 1900 Paris Olympics, which were the second games of the modern Olympics.* The Hall of
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