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Dr. Kevin Rindal gave the sixth session of the 2016 Global Swimming Summit. “Get access to over a dozen experts on everything you need to know about open water swimming…No BS, just practical and proven advice from amazing experts,” says Chris Ritter of Ritter Sports Performance. “If you have questions about open water swimming, the […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Karlyn Pipes presented the fifth session of the Global Swimming Summit. “If you have questions about open water swimming, the summit is completely online so you can watch anywhere with an Internet connection. Register by entering your email at Global Swimming Summit and you’ll be alerted to all of
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Carole and Sarah Hunt, at the age of 26 pictured in 1988, courtesy of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Carole and Sarah Hunt of Morton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom were the first twins to successfully swim across the English Channel in 9 hours 29 minutes, the first twins to compete in the 1990 36 km
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After three years of planning, training, preparing and fundraising, British transoceanic swimmer Ben Hooper had to delay his start another day in Dakar in order to begin the Swim The Big Blue. Hooper is aiming to complete his solo stage swim across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to Brazil
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Many ships and aircrafts have been mysteriously and supposedly disappeared under unknown circumstances in the Bermuda Triangle or the Devil’s Triangle in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean. While numerous television programs, books and online sites talk about this unresolved mystery, reputable sources dismiss the concept that
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) induction ceremonies are traditionally held in the autumn, but we are making a permanent move to the spring,” announced Ned Denison. “A location near London is ideally located for nearly 50 Honourees who are less than 6 hours drive away. For
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Courtesy of Jamie Burton, Rock Hill Masters, South Carolina. Jamie Burton knows marathon swimmer Cheryl Reinke quite well and shared some insights into the 51-year-old engineer and former collegiate swimmer who runs the Rock Hill Masters swim team in upstate South Carolina. Reinke completed all 7 stages of the 120-mile (193 km) 8 Bridges Hudson
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2nd Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships and the 3rd Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open are held concurently between January 5th – 8th 2017. World ice swimming champion Christof Wandratsch writes, “The Aqua Sphere events are THE ice swimming events in Germany and a MUST DO for
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Shelley Taylor-Smith, a 7-time champion of the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation in the mid-1990s to early 1990s, FINA official, and channel swimmer and coach, talks frankly about her early experiences swimming in the ocean among marine life. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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