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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California on August 14th. Oliver Wilkerson swam – fast and straight – across the 20.2-mile Catalina Channel. His successul 9 hour 12 minute crossing was his last leg of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming while fundraising for The Chamwell Centre Charity. “This wonderful local charity deserves our support […]
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English Channel course courtesy of Track.RS, Marathon Swimmers Federation. It has been quite a year of achievement for Rebecca Nevitt. The 50-year-old from Lewiston, Maine had done a variety of open water swims from the Maui Channel and the Catalina Channel to a circumnavigation swim around Manhattan, but her 50th year on the planet was
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Courtesy of Underwater Audio, Catalina Channel, California. David Radcliffe has lived a charmed life around the water, from growing up in Southern California to the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games to his career in the military and across the Catalina Channel and in various places around the world. A member of The Old Men and the
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Courtesy of Underwater Audio, Oceans Spring, Mississippi. Patrick Fellows was a young competitive swimmer who then became an endurance athlete, triathlon, race director and entrepreneur. His 31.8-mile, 9-hour swim along the Mississippi coastline in the Gulf of Mexico was a charity swim for Rocket Kids that kicked off a number of sports events for children
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Courtesy of Mike Barrows, Daytona Beach, Florida. The lifeguards of Monmouth County pulled off one of the greatest upsets in open water swimming history at the 2014 Nautica United States Lifesaving Association National Championships in Virginia Beach, Virginia. For 27 straight years, the men and women of Los Angeles County [California] ruled the shores of
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Cork Distance Week, Sandycove Island, Ireland. They came from all over the world and mostly arrived on Friday, July 7th to the seaside town of Kinsale in County Cork on the south coast of Ireland. The day was spent finding their pre-booked accommodations, meeting roommates, unpacking and getting in the first
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Courtesy of Sinead Merrigan , Lough Erne, Northern Ireland. The 26th annual ILDSA Lough Erne 25 km and 17 km National Championship took place on August 5th to some of the best weather of recent years, one of the biggest entry lists, and to a year of firsts including course records, championship records, and the
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Courtesy of Science, Isla de Cedros, Mexico.
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Courtesy of Vojislav Mijić, Šabac, Serbia. Vojislav Mijić of the International Jarak-Šabac Marathon Swim (Plivački maraton Jarak-Šabac or Peace Race) continues to run an outstanding 19 km race year after year, decade after decade. On August 6th, the 48th edition was held down the River Sava in Šabac, Serbia from the village of Jarak to
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