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Courtesy of WOWSA, Newport Beach, California. Bruckner Chase of Ocean City Swim Club in New Jersey explains what to do when you swim out in the ocean and a fog bank rolls in engulfing you with dense fog that effectively limits or eliminates your vision and proximity to the shoreline. Copyright © 2016 by World […]
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Courtesy of Shelley Taylor-Smith, Lone Star Lake, Kansas. Stanislas Raczynski of Emmanuel College outsprinted Marcelo Figueiredo of Carson-Newman Universities (1:01:06.43 to 1:01:07.28) in Lone Star Lake in Kansas at the inaugural 5 km College Swimming Coaches Association of America National Collegiate Open Water Championships on September 17th. 123 lb. Stanislas Raczynski traveled a long way
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Photo of ourtesy of Rivi – CC BY-SA 3.0, Easter Island, Chile. Catalina Channel swimmer Dr. Peter Attia talked about the Tangata manu and traditional Birdman competition on Easter Island with popular podcaster Tim Ferris. The tangata-manu – or birdman – was the winner of a traditional climb-swim-climb-swim-climb competition on Easter Island. The ritual was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “It was amazing,” said triathlete Mike Pugh about his lesson on the Big Island of Hawaii with Karlyn Pipes, the greatest masters swimmer in history. “If anyone can do this at any cost, it’s worth it. I wasted so much time trying to do what needs to be done
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With summer-like temperatures and no wind with Catalina Channel clearly in the horizon, the Pacific Ocean was calling. So we went down to the shoreline and started to swim parallel to the shoreline. Suddenly, we heard a massive sound, scaring us. It turned out that 6 United States Air Force Thunderbirds, F-16 Fighting Falcons, were
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Courtesy of Alex Gray, Oceana. Last month, the California drift gillnet fishery for swordfish resumed without desperately needed protections for at-risk animals. These drift gillnets are indiscriminate killers of animals like sperm whales – swimming along the coast of California, they get caught in the nets. Unable to wrestle free, they slowly drown. Peak fishing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The XII CANA African Swimming Championships will conclude on Sunday, October 23rd with the African Open Water Swim Challenge at the Maselspoort Resort in South Africa. Swimming South Africa, in partnership with the Free State Provincial Government and Mangaung Municipality, is hosting the Confederation Africaine de Natation Amateur (CANA)
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Courtesy of Kim Vandenberg, Excelle Sports. Every Olympic year is emotional. The visions, the goals and the sacrifices—day in and day out—together accumulate to one moment in time. A pivotal and life-changing moment that is the absolute epitome of athlete excellence: the Olympic Games. The Rio Olympics were filled with stories of athletic triumphs, drug
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, Cristian Vergara will attempt an unprecedented 38-mile circumnavigation swim around Easter Island. The nearest inhabited land to Easter Island is Pitcairn Island, 2,075 km (1,289 miles) away; the nearest town with a population over 500 is Rikitea 2,606
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