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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After Grace van der Byl jumped in San Francisco Bay at 10 am this morning [shown above] to start the Night Train 300 relay (NT300), there is no looking back until the sextet swims a total of 300 miles (482.2 km) in another charity swim by the Night Train […]
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Courtesy of Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography, California. After the Waikiki Roughwater Swim was called due to unsafe conditions, Dr. Harry Huffaker took the cancellation in stride. With large swells relentlessly crashing upon the outer coral reef in Waikiki Bay due to a perfect storm of hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean, the 75-year-old Hall of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA recently posted a water quality report by Dr. Tania Braga for Copacabana Beach for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The report is the latest in a series of monthly reports on the water quality at the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim venue. Reported testing figures are from samples taken
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2015 Venezuela Open Water National Championships (XIV Campeonato Nacional de Aguas Abiertas) is being held in Naiguatá this weekend with 2 km, 3 km, 5 km and 10 km races. The top spots enabled the fastest swimmers to qualify for the South American Beach Games that will be
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Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya in a sea cave in Dogashima (堂ヶ島) along the western coast of Izu Peninsula (西伊豆) on Honshu Island in Japan.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Under the guidance of escort boat pilot Captain Mizushima, Ocean Navi‘s relay team of Atusko Tamaru (タマル アツコ), Sakae Morikawa (モリカワ サカエ), Kiyoko Inoue (イノウエ キヨコ), Morihiko Inokuma (イノクマ モリヒコ), Sanae Kataoka (カタオカ サナエ), and Tamotsu Naito (ナイトウ タモツ) completed the season’s first successful relay crossing in 13 hours 33 minutes. The team took off
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Biathlon marathons are tough. Swim at least 10 km and run at least 42 km – it is not an easy feat no matter what the venue. Either way is tough: the first leg, either running or swimming, is undoubtedly tiring and taxing. If the water is warm, then
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stavanger Open Water is a multi-race open water swimming and biathlon event in the southwest of Norway. Its races include 250m, 500m, 1 km, 3 km, and 5 km swims as well as biathlons of 1 km + 5 km run and 1 km + 8 km run. Fastest
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 100 years ago on September 5th 1915, 18-year-old Robert Dowling became the first person to swim around Manhattan Island in New York City. Manhattan Island Dowling began his 13 hour 34 minute swim at 10:15 pm near Spuyten Duyvil, swimming through the night down the Hudson River and up
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Courtesy of Village Silversmith, New England’s favorite jewelry shop and sponsor of the Beverly Shark Swim in Massachusetts. Awards for the top swimmers at the Beverly Shark Swim are real fossilized shark teeth. The New England Open Water Swimming Association-sanctioned event winners receive the shark teeth from the extinct Otodus Obliquus. These are very large
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