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Photo courtesy of Delly Carr of Swimming Australia Ltd.. After capturing the hearts and hopes of his fellow Australians for nearly two hours in Copacabana Beach at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in the marathon swim, Jarrod Poort will carry on and hopes to finish in a podium position at the 2017 FINA World Championships […]
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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,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Join the conversation surrounding your ‘brain on water’ and dive deep into the true value of keeping it healthy,” explains Dr. Wallace J. Nichols about the Blue Mind Summit 7. “Practitioners, researchers, wild water advocates and athletes as well as therapists and indigenous peoples will connect the cognitive, emotional,
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Courtesy of Doug Woodring, Breaking Down Plastic, California. Doug Woodring spoke at today’s Breaking Down Plastic Conference. His slides are shown below. The conference at the South Carolina Aquarium is currently been webcast live here at Breaking Down Plastic. Breaking Down Plastic is one-day event that brings together thought leaders, plastics experts, innovative entrepreneurs, scientific
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The third annual Ultra Maratona Aquática Ilha do Mel includes 10 km and 20 km marathon swims, an aquathlon, a night run and a stand up paddle race in Brazil’s Paranaguá – Ilha do Mel. There are tide changes along the way with water but the ocean bottom can
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tatiana Ostanina is coaching Nejib Belhedi in his unprecedented World Iron Swims throughout Tunisia. Belhedi started off small, pulling a skiff, and has gradually and dramatically increased the size and weight of the boats he has been pulling. His latest World Iron Swim boat pull on April 19th will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pádraig Mallon of Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services loves a challenge. “The fourth of the Celtic Quadrant swims is the 40 km Oa Channel from the Isle of Islay in Scotland to Ireland. Olive Conroy, John McElroy, Ruth McGuigan, Patrick Corcoran, Noel Grimes and Fergil Hesterman will attempt
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Elina Makïnen, Keith Garry, Anna-Carin Nordin, Rory Fitzgerald, Conor Turner and Fionnuala Walsh will attempt to successfully cross from the Isle of Man to Ireland. “The distance is 70 km in a straight line, but they have speed and endurance aplenty,” says Pádraig Mallon of Infinity Channel Swimming and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2016 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nejib Belhedi of Tunisia will tow the ship Sultan II by himself in the water by pulling a rope attached around his waist to the Sultan II on April 19th in Hammamet Marina in Tunisia. The World Iron Swim
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