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Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Red Bull Surf + Rescue, Atlantic City, New Jersey. “Red Bull Surf + Rescue has got to be one of the best showcases for what ocean lifeguards and surf lifesaving sports is all about,” said Technical Director Bruckner Chase of the 2016 event held in Atlantic City on the seaside community […]
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Photo courtesy of J. Albert Diaz. Jose Cortiñas of Cuba [shown on left] was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1967 as an Honour Swimmer after completing a 10 hour 45 minute crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar in 1948, failing at the English Channel in 1949 and a relay crossing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ernest Craige, an American swimmer, had a dream to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar. The 69-year-old from Chapel Hill, North Carolina explained his journey on his first major channel crossing. “It took me three years to get a slot with the Strait of Gibraltar Swimming Association [or the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Francesco Cavaliere of ASD Swimtrekking is hosting another swimtrekking venture on Tremiti Islands in the Adriatic Sea between June 2nd-4th. Cavaliere has already guided two swimtrekking ventures this year; one to Vanuatu and Australia in February and another in Ecuador and Galapagos in March. He offers another tour in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Trent Grimsey started to make his mark on the open water swimming, he was not known as a cold water specialist. Far from it. But the Aussie distance specialist gradually became acclimatized to colder water temperatures and culminated his career by setting the most hallowed record in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Päivi Pälvimäki, Samuli Keisu and Tuomas Kaario are the visionaries, planners and swimming guides behind the successful Swimming Holidays in Finland. Kiara Oy is the event management company that manages these annual swimming holidays throughout Finland: * Baltic Adventure – Swim around Örö Island: August 2017 4-day swimming holiday
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Courtesy of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Dave Barra (USA, Class of 2017), Colin Hill (GBR, 2017), Richard Broer (NED, 2017), Tamara Bruce (AUS, 2017), David O’Brien (AUS, 2017), John Pittman (USA, 2017), Ricardo Ratto (BRA, 2017), Stephen Redmond (IRE, 2017), Dale Petranech (USA, 1995), Christopher Guesdon (AUS, 2009), Roger Parsons
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 24th annual Buzzards Bay Swim will be held in New Bedford Harbor on June 24th in its continued effort to raise money and awareness to help protect the water in Buzzards Bay. The efforts of the Buzzards Bay Coalition is now aided by this swim and enabling the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Wallace J. Nichols wrote about First Lady Melania Trump and her perspective on Mother Nature [see article here]. Dr. Nichols will host the Blue Mind Summit 7 next week. “Practitioners, researchers, wild water advocates and athletes as well as therapists and indigenous peoples will connect the cognitive, emotional,