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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 82-year-old Mike Arbuthnot of South Africa has started and stuck with open water swimming like no one else. Earlier this year, he completed the 42nd edition of the aQuellé Midmar Mile. But what made his swim unique is that he swam his own 42nd edition in Midmar Dam. For […]
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Courtesy of Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Marina Bay Sands describes its rooftop Infinity Pool on the 57th floor above the streets of Singapore as the most spectacular photo-taking spot in Singapore. Open from 6 am to 11 pm, it is more like a great opportunity to swim well above sea level and let your mind
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Courtesy of Päivi Pälvimäki, Lohjanjärvi Lake, Estonia. Päivi Pälvimäki is a creative writer, scriptwriter, theater director and songwriter-lyricist with books, plays, comedy and scripts as part of her content. But part of her dryland activities also includes planning and leading tours and clinics with Swimming Holidays in Finland. Since 2007 in Riihimäki, Finland, Pälvimäki has
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Comcast SportsNet California will broadcast the 15th annual RCP Tiburon Mile beginning tonight. “Watch the elite swimmers who joined us from around the world like, Keri-Anne Payne and David Carry from Great Britain, Michael Sheil from Australia, Evgeny Bezruchenko from Russia, Christine Jennings and Becca Mann from the USA,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Professor Dr. Andreas Fath of Germany is nominated for the 2015 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year for his 25-stage, 28-day 1,231 km (765-mile) stage swim along the length of the Rhine River from Lake Toma in the Graubünden Alps of Switzerland to the North Sea estuary
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kara Lavender Law, Ph.D. is a Research Professor of Oceanography at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She will assist Benoît Lecomte and his team conduct scientific research as the swims across the Pacific Ocean on his 5,500-mile (8,851 km) transoceanic crossing. Professor Law is part of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 10% of all proceeds go towards the fight against cancer when shopping here, a program put together by Swim Across America and SwimOutlet. Click here for holiday gifts for your swimmer friends and automatically make a donation to Swim Across America with your purchase. Copyright © 2015 by World
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On November 21st, the first annual Nage Nordic winter swimming event was successfully held in the St. Lawrence River in Levis, Quebec, Canada. The organizers, led by Gerry Fassett and Michel Gagne [shown above], both of Levis, had participated in the Halloween Vampire Swim in Newport, Vermont with temperatures of 7.2ºC or 45ºF, inspiring them
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “The Irish Long Distance Swimming Association would like to thank everyone for attending their 49th AGM at the Regency Hotel in Dublin, especially people who travelled a long distance to attend,” announced Chairperson Stephen Millar. “We would like to confirm and congratulate the new incoming committee and wish them
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It takes a lot of creativity and effort to revolutionize a simple product that has been on the market for a long time. That is what FINIS showed its corporate creativity when it developed its Axis Buoy, a multi-function pull buoy that was also nominated for the 2015 World
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