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Photos are courtesy of Phil White of Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association. The Seymour Swim was a 10 km marathon swim in wind-whipped Seymour Lake on August 11th as part of the Swim The Kingdom week in Vermont. Paula Yankauskas (58), Charlotte Brynn (47), Cynthia Needham (65), Kay Anderson (47), Tobias Frenz (45), Deborah […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Miguel Arrobas, Vitor Medina, Duarte Simões, Nuno Braga, Rodrigo Simões and Letícia Toste attempted the the first crossing between the islands of São Jorge and Pico in the Azores in July. Arrobas was the first to cross the 20 km stretch and reach the island of Pico, then Nuno
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bridgett Hobart finished her Cayuga Lake crossing in 20 hours 33 minutes, her longest swim in the Nazareth College Finger Lakes Challenge. Claire deBoer, the first woman to cross Cayuga Lake 31 years ago in 1984, came to town to support Hobart in her attempt and surprised me in
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Photos and report are courtesy of Phil White. Swim the Kingdom Week concluded this past weekend with races at Lake Willoughby and Caspian Lake. The week is organized by Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association and Kingdom Games. Winning at Willoughby were 37-year-old Steven Hodgins of New Jersey in 1:54:19 and Shannon House Keeghan of
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American Presidents In The Water Photo of President John Kennedy and First Lady courtesy of Jacques Lowe, an internationally renowned photographer and photojournalist who chronicled the presidential campaign and presidency of John Kennedy. American presidents who are/were comfortable swimming and in the open water included President Obama (off Oahu, Hawaii growing up), President John Quincy
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Phillips Channel is a 1.96 nautical mile channel in the Strait of Malacca close to the south of Singapore. It is the most narrow point of the Strait of Malacca. So close, but besides the marine life, there are plenty of obstacles in the main shipping channel between the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the age of 75, Harry Huffaker is going to attempt to become the oldest person to cross a major channel in the world. Huffaker will attempt a 26-mile (42 km) crossing of the Molokai Channel from Molokai Island to Oahu sometime between September 14th and 18th. “That would
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Photo courtesy of Thomas Mikkelsen of the Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After starting her tour across United States with a 9 hour 20 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel to become only the third person to achieve a Double Triple (see here), 53-year-old Penny Palfrey traveled across
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. David Tay announced a new open water swimming event in Singapore: the Singapore Open Water held on October 10th. The 800m and 4 km sea swim is held at the NSRCC Sea Sports Centre along the Changi Coast Walk in Singapore. The course is an 800m loop and is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Night swimming can be disorienting, but also liberating. With the depths dark and the air crisp, it seems that every sense is alive. The splash of the arms seems louder, the movement of the water seems to be felt by nearly every pore in the body. Any illumination immediately
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