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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Moldavian/Irish swimmer Ion Lazarenco Tiron completed his sixth Oceans Seven swim with a Tsugaru Channel crossing from Hokkaido to Honshu. In addition to an 8-day 235 km stage swim in his native Moldova and an Ice Mile in his adopted Ireland in 3.3ºC (37.9ºF) water, he has completed crossings […]
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Courtesy of Kathy Batts, English Channel. “The original plan was a two way crossing in 2015, but 2 miles off the French coast, we aborted the crossing due to a really bad thunderstorm and lightning storm which led to too dangerous conditions to continue,” said team manager Kathy Batts. “Heartbroken, the team asked [escort pilot]
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Ferguson Freestyling Across The Molokai Channel Photos courtesy of © Sarah Ferguson‘s 18 km swim from Umlanga to Durban in South Africa. Report courtesy of Linda Kaiser, Ka’iwi Channel, Hawaii. South African Sarah Ferguson from Durbin became the first African to successfully swim the Ka’iwi Channel from Molokai to Oahu. Linda Kaiser reports, “She started
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Benjamin Freeman does not waste any time. The 16-year-old Australian swimmer [shown on left with race director Doug Woodring] won the 2014 15 km Clean Half Marathon Swim in Hong Kong in the same race his sister Jemma Freeman won the women’s division. The next year at the age
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Courtesy of Jaimie Monahan, Manhattan Island, New York. Jeff Everett, a marathon swimmer from Oakland, California, is very used to swimming in cold waters. As a member and former Swim Commissioner for the South End Rowing Club, the 56-year-old trains year-round in San Francisco’s Aquatic Park. He has successfully completed several channels like the Strait
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Courtesy of Canah along the Danube River, Germany. Romanian Avram Iancu continued 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 33 as each day
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Courtesy of Gürsel Şen, Istanbul Strait, Turkey. The 2017 Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Samsung Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari or Samsung Boğaziçi Kıtalararası Yüzme Yarışı) went according to plan as 2,200 people attempted to cross the Istanbul Strait that connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara in Turkey, enabling its participants to claim they swam
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diane Stowell was always on the starting line at ocean swims around Hawaii for decades. She was a winner of over 20 Waikiki Roughwater Swim age-group titles, as well as at least 17 U.S. Masters Swimming national titles, and crossed the Maui Channel in 1987. She was always mentoring,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Andrew Truscott from Jersey has been building up to his most recent unprecedented swim from Jersey to France and back. As a teenager, he completed a 66 km Round Jersey in 10 hours 39 minutes. Then, at the age of 34, he completed the 2015 Tampa Bay Marathon Swim
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