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Courtesy of Poshey Aherne Photography, Catalina Channel, California. Kristian O’Donovan is a 38-year-old Irish open water swimmer from Glenbeigh, Kerry. He successfully completed a 32.3 km crossing of the Catalina Channel yesterday in 10 hours 45 minutes. When he stepped on the Southern California shoreline, he completed not only the Triple Crown of Open Water […]
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BREAKING NEWS: Today the UK has decided to forge ahead with our call to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030. It’s an historic moment. https://t.co/OfvD3J6gZi 1/8 pic.twitter.com/fl9uUfTWrk— Lewis Pugh (@LewisPugh) September 24, 2018 Lewis Pugh tweeted, “Today the UK has decided to forge ahead with our call to protect 30% of the world’s
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Courtesy of Marilyn Korzekwa, Lake Superior. On August 19th, Dr. Marilyn Korzekwa pioneered a new 29 km cross-border route across Lake Superior from Whitefish Point, Michigan, USA to Pancake Bay, Ontario, Canada. She left Whitefish Point, Michigan at 3:15 am in the chilly blackness on August 19th and arrived in the sunshine at Pancake Bay
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Courtesy of Wallace J Nichols, Ph.D., M.E.M., Miami, Florida. The theme of the 8th Annual Blue Mind Summit is Water is Medicine and will be held in Miami, Florida on October 4th. As Blue Mind founder Wallace J Nichols, Ph.D., M.E.M. explains, “We’re just like you, we love to be near, in, on, or under
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Courtesy of WCAX, Hyde Park, Vermont. At the age of 64, Paula Yankauskas completed her crossing of the Catalina Channel in 15 hours 49 minutes, becoming the second oldest individual to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, on September 7th. Crew member Janine Serell said, “Paula was amazing. She swam slow and steady
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Photos courtesy of Kaija Siirala and Marilyn Korzekwa. Psychiatrist Marilyn Korzekwa focused on two swims this summer. Her first swim was across the Santa Barbara Channel from Santa Cruz Island to the California mainland in the city of Oxnard. But a shark showed up during her July attempt. “It came closer in circles and then
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Tateyama Hojo Coast, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. This morning, Taishin Minamide comfortably won the 2018 Japan National Open Water Swimming Championships in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture over Yosuke Miyamoto in second and Taiki Nonaka in third. Minamide and Miyamoto will represent Japan at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships with the opportunity to qualify
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Courtesy of Kelvin Trautman, English Channel. After generating much attention on the importance of protecting the world’s oceans and marine life, especially around Great Britain, during his unprecedented stage swim called The Long Swim, Lewis Pugh has been going non-stop on dryland. Through his talks and explanations with politicians and government leaders to look towards
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