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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This week alone, swimmers from Hungary, India, the United States, Ireland, South Africa and Greece are attempting solo crossings of the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland. Update: Steve Walker of USA [shown on left] was successful in his crossing as was Phia Steyn of South Africa and […]
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GPS tracking courtesy of Evan Morrison, Catalina Channel, California. Robert Palmese had raised the money, recruited the crew, trained the miles, and planned for the first three-way crossing of the Catalina Channel. But he had not planned for a shoulder injury (bicep tendonitis) before his estimated 36+ hour attempt. An hour from Catalina Island, his
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Naples Island Swim is an annual bay swim held in Long Beach, California
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Melissa Yasmin Berkay of Mills College in Oakland, California described her 12 hour 37 minute butterfly crossing of the Catalina Channel this week. The 25-year-old music and journalism student from Mills College surrounded herself with stalwarts in the sport in her charity swim for homeless. Not only did she
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jack Berkery is an 68-year-old lifelong runner who has run over 40,000 miles while participating in 475 running races on roads, tracks and trails over his career. Now he is turning to open water swimming with the help of people like David Dammerman, race director of the Betsy Owen
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Wayne Snellgrove Being Passionate And Giving Back Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wayne William Snellgrove has a knack to give back to those of his heritage and sport. Snellgrove whose birth name was Dwayne Ivan Smoke and whose nickname is the Greatest Native American Swimmer was born in Canada and was a Sixties Scoop
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Courtesy of Anja, Faroe Islands. Jon Hestoy is in Rio de Janeiro, a member of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee. He is responsible for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim course and procedures along with Christiane Fanzeres of Brazil and Ayman Saad of Egypt. But how did a man from the Faroe Islands rise
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Atlantic City Pageant Ocean Swim is one of the world’s oldest open water swimming competitions. Ray Peden of the Middle Atlantic Open Water Committee explains about this year’s event. “The Pageant open water swim was originally cancelled early in the summer but, it has now resurfaced – just
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Photos courtesy of Scottie T Photography in Samoa. 16-year-old Aussie Reece Southall won the Samoa Swim Series for the third consecutive year. The Queensland native has never lost any of the nine races over the past 3 years at the Samoa Swim Series against his competitors from Samoa, New Zealand, Australia and the United States.
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Courtesy of Pedro Rego Monteiro, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro. Under overcast skies, officials and volunteers are busy on Copacabana Beach setting and anchoring of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim turn buoys, the starting pontoon, the finish chute, the finish touchpad and high-speed cameras, as well as conducting communication checks between officials and safety staff,
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