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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After the 25-mile (40.2 km) In Search of Memphre, Katie Benoit will attempt an unprecedented Biathlon Marathon in Lake Memphremagog where she will run 35 miles (56.3 km) back to the start. The detective from Colorado Springs who specializes in Special Victims, high up in the Rocky Mountains, explains […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Stewart Evans became the first individual to swim from the Farallon Islands to the California mainland in 1967, he wore a swim cap as others have done before and after him. But looking back at historical photos of that cap, it appears to be a neoprene cap that
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Courtesy of Ocean Navi, Dogashima, Japan. Masayuki Moriya conducted an open water swimming clinic in Dogashima, Japan where the participants enjoyed cave swimming along the coast. Dogashima (堂ヶ島) is located along the western coast of Izu Peninsula (西伊豆) on Honshu in Japan where Ocean Navi conducts swimming expeditions along the dramatic stone formations and cliffs
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Königssee is a lake in the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. The Königssee is deepest and advertised as the cleanest lake in Germany. It is so clean that a 16-year-old girl on vacation was able to spot a solid gold bar 2 meters down at
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Firas Moualla is a graduate of Damascus University and is the Secretary-General of the Olympic Committee in Syria. The Syrian open water swimmer culminated his prolific career with a 124 km solo swim from the island of Cyprus to Latakia City along the Syrian coast in 2007. The 77-mile
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ángela Díaz García has been working out hard all year, aiming to culminate her dedication with two tough ocean swims this September. A representative of Club Natación Avilés, she will first compete in the Ultramarató de l’Ebre 30830 Swim Marathon, a 30.83 (19.15-mile) downstream river swim in the River
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Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine that interviews Olympic marathon swimmer Jordan Wilimovsky about his victory in the 1500m freestyle at the USA Swimming National Championships. For more information, visit Swimming World Magazine here.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kate Mason (Australia) and Julia Aston (UK) completed the first Ultimate Trophy Swim as organized by Ben Barham of the Lake Geneva Swimming Association. Starting yesterday, the duo completed a 2-person 69 km relay across Lake Geneva in 28 hours 12 minutes 56 under the escort of pilots Gerad
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Courtesy of FINA, Kazan, Russia.
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Courtesy of Creative Pictures, Cozumel, Mexico.
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