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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Embrace The Challenge: Erie Crossing is a 20 km cross border swim for solo swimmers and relays across Lake Erie between Canada and the USA. Organized as a joint venture between Embrace Open Water Swimming and North Shore Swimmers and run by Miguel Vadillo [shown above] and Joshua Reid, […]
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Courtesy of Bodenseequerung, Bondensee. Oliver Halder and his colleagues at the Bodenseequerung, the governing body of the Bondensee (Lake Constance) crossings, document an unusual level of detail on lengthwise and widthwise crossings of the lake on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps. The lake is located between Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Its
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Courtesy of Peter Verity Photography, Llyn Padarn, north Wales. The Big Welsh Swim is a multi-race open water swim in Llyn Padarn at the foot of Snowdonia Mountain Range, Gwynedd in north Wales. The charity swim for Snowdonia Giving offers four distances (1.3 km + 3 km + 6 km + 9 km) with the
Courtesy of Canah along the Danube River, Germany. Romanian Avram Iancu continues on his scheduled 60-day stage swim of 2,860 km along the Danube River through Europe. The 41-year-old librarian from Petrosani, Transylvania started his stage swim from Donaueschingen in the Black Forest in Germany. He is now heading into Day 45 as each day
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Simon Holliday has a deep and profound interest in human motivation and resilience. His drive is both for himself and for others. He has completed a 15 hour 2 minute crossing of the English Channel in 2011 as well as a 35 km, 10 hour 20 minute swim across
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Courtesy of Oliver Halder, Bodenseequerung, Germany. Sven Eckardt is a 47-year-old German swimmer from Gärtringen whose nickname is Dr. Svimmm. After years of success in pool swimming as a disabled swimmer, the handicapped paraplegic with cerebral paralysis on his legs wants to achieve a lifelong dream. He will attempt a 12 km widthwise 12 km
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Courtesy of Track.RS, North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland. Epic is often used in channel swims and marathon swims. Sometimes, the epicity is measured in how fast a swimmer crosses a channel (e.g., Trent Grimsey across the English Channel), how early a swimmer crosses a channel (e.g., Keo Nakama across the Molokai Channel in
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Top Ten Extreme Adventures On The Weather Channel Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Darren Miller, shown above in the North Channel in 2013, will be featured on The Weather Channel’s Top Ten: Extreme Adventures on Sunday, August 6th at 8 pm EST. Miller was the first person to go 7-for-7 on the Oceans Seven
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Courtesy of Canah along the Danube River, Germany. Romanian Avram Iancu continues on his scheduled 60-day stage swim of 2,860 km along the Danube River through Europe. The 41-year-old librarian from Petrosani, Transylvania started his stage swim from Donaueschingen in the Black Forest in Germany. He is now heading into Day 42 as each day
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On July 28th and 29th, the inaugural 57-mile 40 Bridges – Double Manhattan Island Swim was hosted New York Open Water. The 91.6 km race is the world’s longest one-day, non-stop open water swimming competition. The new event starts and finishes at Pier A and circles Manhattan Island twice
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