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Big, Bad, Dangerous – Creatures In The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over the last few years, many juvenile Great White Sharks have populated the shallow waters in Huntington Beach, creating a stir among surfers, SUP paddleboards and wind surfers who flock to the Southern Californian beach. During his completion of the […]
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Gaurvi Singhvi Joins Open Water Luminaries At TED Talks Courtesy of TEDx Talks, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Teenager Gaurvi Singhvi joined a number of athletes, physicians, writers and personalities who have spoken about open water swimming at TED conferences around the world: * Lewis Pugh * Diana Nyad * Maarten van der Weijden * Ori Sela
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Not Letting Shrimp Go To Waste Courtesy of Material District. University of Nottingham and Nile University bioengineers are studying how to use shrimp shells to make biodegradable shopping bags. The material is made from chitosan, an artificial polymer made from the organic compound chitin, which is extracted from crustacean shells. Chitosan is biodegradable polymer that
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Class Of 2020 Hall Of Famers To Be Honored In New York Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Open water swimming is definitely global. 15 athletes, coaches, and administrators from Italy, South Africa, Spain, USA, Netherlands, Hungary, Egypt, Greece, Canada, Argentina and Bulgaria were elected to the International
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Bruges Whale Starts Asian Tour Courtesy of Doug Woodring, Ocean Recovery Alliance, Singapore. The Bruges whale kicks off its inaugural tour of Asia, starting off in Singapore. Doug Woodring, co-founder of Ocean Recovery Alliance and a recent International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Administrator, is bringing Skyscraper, a four-story breaching whale sculpture made from
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Risztov Éva Honored By International Marathon Swimming Hall Of Fame Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. “Comeback stories are beloved by sports fans – and there are few great comeback stories like Risztov Éva and her road to Olympic gold in the 2012 London Olympic Games,” recalls Steven Munatones. “Risztov from
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Beth Yudovin Receives Dale Petranech Award Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. “Beth Yudovin has been around the ocean and ocean swimmers for most of her adult life, on escort boats, on dryland, and behind the scenes. She is so giving and tremendously supportive,” observed Steven Munatones. “She is always a
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History Unfolds Across The Sea of Galilee On October 28th 1944 Courtesy of Guy Cohen and Eyal Schachner, Sea of Galilee, Israel. October 28th is the 75th anniversary of the first full-length crossing of the Sea of Galilee, successfully pioneered in 1944 by Israeli swimmer Yitzhak Yehezkel. It is a story and a pioneering challenge
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Doug Woodring Honored By International Marathon Swimming Hall Of Fame Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “Who knew that diving among a bunch of plastic trash would become the catalyst for Doug Woodring to eventually be nominated and voted in as an Honor Administrator in the International Marathon
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Esther Nuñez Morera Honored By International Swimming Hall Of Fame Video courtesy of Léandre Lapointe, coach of Esther Nuñez Morera at the 2015 Traversée internationale du Lac-St-Jean in Quebec, Canada. Announcement courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. “To be best of my knowledge, no husband and wife team ever raced simultaneously
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