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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Swim Across America, Catalina Channel, Seven Mile Beach and Kiawah Island. Travel the world raising money to fight cancer with Swim Across America to South Carolina (Kiawah Island), Cayman Islands (Seven Mile Beach), and Southern California (Catalina Channel). These new Swim Across America Experiences are now open for registration. Megan Melgaard explains, “Swim […]
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Courtesy of @baywatchmovie starring Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra and Alexandra Daddario, opening May 25th. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Michael Phelps head to the ocean in the new movie Baywatch. In a promotional commercial, American actor Johnson puts the GOAT (Phelps) through a series of tests to join an elite group of lifeguards.
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Courtesy of Swim Across America, Clearwater Beach, Florida. The Swim Across America – Tampa, organized by Ron Collins and his wife and cancer-survivor Rebecca Collins, donated over US$200,000 this year and over US$1,000,000 cumulatively to fund cancer research at Moffitt Cancer Center’s Melanoma, Sarcoma and Adolescent and Young Adult programs. The ocean swim in Clearwater
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26 on Santa Monica Beach, California. The Tower 26 summer season workouts on Santa Monica Beach in Southern California starts this Wednesday, May 17th. “Our swim caps have arrived and the ocean temperatures have warmed above 60°F (16°C+) consistently, although the winds will create patches of warm and cold,” explains
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Carolina Prieto is only 13 years old, but she completed a charity swim this last week in San Francisco that raised US$6,500 for breast cancer research. “We are doing a project at my school called Take Action Project (TAP) where we pick a problem, research it and take action
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A Year Of Living Well And Thankfully Courtesy of Steven Munatones, Huntington Beach, California. The last article that I remember writing before I went into the hospital was dated May 9th 2016 (Family, Friends And Finance In The Open Water). I have no recollection of the next 48 hours even though I posted a brief
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Courtesy of Mark Sheridan, Zoe Sadler, Janet Wilson, Windermere on behalf of the British Long Distance Swimming Association. Zoe Sadler, the British Long Distance Swimming Association Honorary Recorder, provided a brief history and a comprehensive, authoritative list of successful 2 Way Windermere swimmers. While swimming across Windermere has occurred for generations, the Windermere course changed
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Courtesy of LA2024, Southern California. Like the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, the top two contenders have stayed in the lead pack for the entire race and have now broken free. The cities of Paris and Los Angeles are sprinting furiously to the finish – and it is said that Paris has nudged in the lead
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi started his World Iron Swims with a small skiff pulling two children. Then he upped the ante and pulled a camel and its trainer on a larger boat. Then he started to boat pull larger and larger marine vessels. Belhedi completed his SONOTRAK Iron Swim 1000, pulling
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