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Courtesy of Paradise Adventures Sarasota, Sarasota, California. The year after the 7-mile (11.2 km) Swim Around Lido Key was cancelled due to weather, race directors David Miner and Steve Butler were hoping for the best. As the weather cooperated this time, Miner and Butler put on an outstanding comeback swim that concurrently served as the […]
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Courtesy of Paradise Adventures Sarasota, Sarasota, California. Chelsea Colwill won the U.S. Masters Swimming Marathon Distance Open Water National Championship at the Swim Around Lido Key event this weekend. The 28-year-old Floridian was the fastest overall swimmer – male or female – completing the 7-mile (11.2 km) circumnavigation of Lido Key in Sarasota, Florida in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The opening address of the 2017 Congress of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame was given by Christopher Guesdon with the support of the Executive Committee of Ned Denison, Beth Yudovin, Melissa Cunningham, and Dale Petranech. “In today’s congress I will shortly go through the agenda and before
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Ode To My Yacker All Month Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach. “Ginny Peck of New Hampshire hijacked Yacker Week and turned all of April into Be Kind to Your Yacker Month,” explains Phil White. “Justly hungry for thanks, she calls for a full month of tribute to those yackers who guide us, feed us, and
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Courtesy of Ron Collins, Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, Florida. 30-year-old Jay Eckert of Sarasota and U.S. Masters Swimming, knows the Floridian waters well. He used that local marine knowledge and experience, and a whole lot of hard work at the Sarasota Sharks Masters to fuel his victory at the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim on Earth
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Courtesy of Fares Ksebati, MySwimPro. “MySwimPro filed a Form C with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and announced its Open Public Offering (OPO),” explains founder & CEO Fares Ksebati. “For the first time, we are offering future stock to the public and for as little as US$100 as a minimum investment, you can invest
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Samoana Sharks Fautasi by Paul Chetirkin. The Samoana High School Sharks offer a rowing team for its student in Samoa. At 1:15 into the video above, a Pacific blacktip shark is shown. “It was not part of the boat photo shoot and was caught inadvertently. The blacktip is rarely a threat to humans and is
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Busy Bruckner Chases His Mission Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 365 days a year, Bruckner Chase is either training, coaching, organizing or traveling to ocean competitions, clinics, presentations, seminars or teaching opportunities. There are few as engaged and involved year-round or lifelong as is Chase in the marine environment whether it involves the media,
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Courtesy of Erich Meltvedt, Tecate, Mexico. It is always fascinating to learn what open water swimmers do on dryland. Ray Meltvedt, an American open water swimmer from California who completed a Catalina Channel crossing at the age of 50 in 15 hours 25 minutes, was the only swimmer to complete all 27 pier swims in
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