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BC Ocean Positive – Join Our Legion of Heroes for our oceans and our communities from Bruckner Chase on Vimeo. Together with Patrick Roach, an Aviation Survival Technician with U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Alabama, Wallace J Nichols, Ph.D., a marine biologist, conservationist, and author of Blue Mind, Sean Hays, the Senior Chief […]
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Courtesy of Jim Barber, Cook Strait, New Zealand. Jim Barber completed his fifth Oceans Seven channel this week. It was a long week of waiting. This is his story: Day 1. I arrived into Wellington, New Zealand at 3:00 pm yesterday afternoon and got all checked into the hotel. [I am] pretty wiped out after
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Courtesy of Lexie Kelly, Sanlam Cape Mile, South Africa. Chad Ho returned to his familiar position on top of the awards podium at th 2017 Sanlam Cape Mile at South Africa’s Eikenhof Dam. Going stroke-for-stroke with American rival Chip Peterson, Ho just stood up one stroke before the taller Peterson, got an excellent foot plant
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kainoa McGee, a famed North Shore of Oahu waterman, and KMBCo. won the People’s Choice Startup of the Year award presented by Hawaii Business Magazine at the Hawaii Venture Capital Association Awards Gala. KMBCo helps individuals with physical disabilities get into the water through paddling. Chris Gardner, race director
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Some of the most monstrous and best-known waves for surfers are on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii. The north coast of Oahu is also the site of the North Shore Swim Series, a 5-race summer ocean swimming series. The series includes the 1-mile Aloha Salads Summer Sprint
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Globally, open water swimmers from hundreds of nations share, download and post many terabytes of content every hour of every day about themselves, their swims and their swimming buddies. The photos, videos, blogs, websites, messages and postings of open water swimmers are hosted, stored and archived on data centers
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Courtesy of Kathrine V. Switzer 261 Foundation. 50 years ago in April, Katherine V. Switzer ran the 1967 Boston Marathon as the first women with an official bib number (261). A 19-year-old swim coach and future head of the American Swimming Coaches Association joined her four-person team that protected her from being barred from participating.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Southern Pacific Masters Swimming is calling for 2016 Coach of the Year nominations to be submitted by March 15th. “Swimmers should submit up to four substantial letters describing your coach and why they should be the next Southern Pacific Masters Swimming Coach of The Year,” announced Dan Wegner. “The
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Courtesy of Elias Lefas at the Santorini Experience on Santorini Island, Greece. The 3rd Santorini Experience will take place on Santorini Island in Greece between October 6th – 8th. Santorini Experience is open to pro and amateur athletes, a beautiful running or swimming challenge. While the runners go through villages, such as Imerovigli, Firostefani and
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Photos, report and videos courtesy of Phil White, Mina Elnacash and Gordon Alexander at th 2017 Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival, Vermont. Winter swimmers travelled from Washington, California, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, and Ontario to the third annual Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival on March 3rd, 4th and 5th
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