Sounds Of The Open Water
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Stephen Redmond Across The North Channel
Courtesy of Brian Meharg of Bangor Boat escorting Stephen Redmond for 17 hours 17 minutes across the North/Irish Channel in August 2010 from Scotland to Northern Ireland.
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Millennium Crossing Of The North Channel By Stephen Price
Courtesy of Brian Meharg of Bangor Boat who escorted Stephen Price for 16 hours 56 minutes across the North/Irish Channel in July 2000.
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Cliff Lumsdon Hall Of Fame Induction Video
Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Olympic 10K Medalists Return To Rio
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ferry Weertman swam the most dramatic, most exciting, most impressive race of his life in winning the 10 km marathon swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. His out-touching of Greek silver medalist Spyridon Gianniotis represented the closest race during his short, but storied, career. Weertman can expect another
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Around Easter Island, 26 Hours 52 Minutes Later
Courtesy of Capri Djatiasmoro, Easter Island (Isla de Pascua), Chile. Capri Djatiasmoro reported, “[It was an] extraordinary effort by R. Cristian Vergara [on his attempted 38-mile (61 km) circumnavigation around Easter Island], but in the end after 26 hours and 52 minutes in a very salty ocean, the sea won…” You did good kid. We
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Trio Tandem Completes Anacapa Circumnavigation
Courtesy of Oceanswimmr, Anacapa Island, California. On November 4th, Ned Denison was sandwiched between two women Liz Fry and Fionnuala Walsh on their tandem circumnavigation swim around Anacapa Island off the California coast in 65°F (18°C) water. Guided by the vessel Raptor, the trio pioneered the first counterclockwise direction of the island in 6 hours
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Gerrrrrrr, Ice Sevens Do It In The ICE
Information courtesy of Ram Barkai of the International Ice Swimming Association. Video courtesy of Sergey Sobolev of the Yakutsk Divers Club. First there was the Seven Summits: Kilimanjaro (5,892m in Africa), Vinson Massif (4,892m in Antarctica), either Kosciuszko (2,228m) or Carstensz Pyramid (4,884m in Australia), Mount Everest (8,848m in Asia), Elbrus (5,642m in Europe), Mount
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Nancy Haynsworth Completes A Crossing To Africa
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nancy Marie Haynsworth is an American open water swimmer from South Carolina who spent 10 years working as a Navy Fitness professional, both in the U.S. and overseas. In the Kingdom of Bahrain, she served as Fit Boss and as a Fitness Director at Naval Support Activity preparing health,
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Twice As Nice At Oceana
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alex Gray and his colleagues at Oceana announced that Discovery Channel will match every donation given to Oceana today, up to US$20,000. “Dolphins, sea lions, sea turtles, and other ocean creatures are facing serious threats right now, and so we’re going to be following up today to make the
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