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Courtesy of Mark Ruffalo on behalf of Benoit Lecomte who is attempting to swim from Tokyo, Japan to San Francisco, California. Benoit Lecomte’s team will identify what he will be exposed to throughout his swim across the Pacific Ocean. This combination of science and ocean swimming has never been done to this extent or over […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The test event for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games 10K marathon swim showcased how exciting the Olympic final will undoubtedly be. With rough water, ocean currents, waves, sizable surface turbulence and a near photo finish in Copacabana Beach, the 2016 Rio Olympic 10K will prove to have everything that
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was one of Thomas Bell‘s wife’s friends who participated in an English Channel relay that spurred him to consider a crossing of the English Channel. He thought an English Channel attempt would motivate him to work out consistently. “I focused on swimming beginning in July 2012 under the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mateusz Sawrymowicz of Poland upset world championship medalist Alex Meyer of the USA at the 20.5 km BCT Gdynia Marathon where the water temperature fluctuated between 16.5 and 18.6 along the coastal route. Sawrymowicz finished in 4 hours 12 minutes across the Gulf of Puck from Hel to Gdynia
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With his tough crossing of the 19.5 km Tsugaru Channel, Guy Moar of Australia joined some of the top swimmers in the world* who have completed the most Oceans Seven channels. His Tsugaru Channel crossing from Honshu to Hokkaido in northern Japan took him 11 hours 32 minutes of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The video above of a Lion’s mane jellyfish in Killary, Damien Haberlin shows what swimmers in the North Channel face. The the primary season for channel swimmers and the Lion’s Mane coinciding in late July and August, swimmers face encountering the dreaded jellyfish. Nuala Moore explains its presence among
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matthias Kassner (Matthias Kaßner) of Germany achieved the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming yesterday with his 13 hour 59 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel. In 2013, he had completed the English Channel in 14 hours 43 minutes and in 2014, he completed the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John T. Goudy (1911-1967) was a long-time U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer and World War II hero who left a legacy along the South New Jersey shoreline. For 49 years, the annual John T. Goudy Memorial Rescue Races are attracted those committed to lifesaving along the Jersey coast. Last
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This week’s New Yorker cartoon about ocean swimming in offshore waters of Japan reminds us of Adam Walker‘s crossing of the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan where massive, unpredictable eddies and a battering of conflicting currents make the 19.5 km channel more difficult than usually anticipated
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Photo courtesy of Wolfgang Rattay. There was all kinds of excitement on Ostia at the 2009 FINA World Swimming Championships where hometown hero Valerio Cleri and German standout Angela Maurer won the 25 km marathon swim. While Cleri was comfortable in the rough waters of Ostia, not everyone is water safe in the Roman seaside
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