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Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine, Kazan, Russia. Thomas Lurz, David Meca, Trent Grimsey and a handful of other swimmers have famously competed in all the open water swims at a single FINA World Swimming Championships. But Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands took another twist to a busy, busy athlete with loads of stamina and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel is making her last preparations for another three-way attempt of the English Channel this weekend, weather permitting. She expects her attempt will take 35–40 hours in order to become the first Australian to do so, and only the fourth person in history to complete such a feat.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adrian Sarchet will be going for his fourth Oceans Seven channel tomorrow. He plans to cross the North Channel. En route, he must overcome a variety of obstacles, specifically the cold water and huge jellyfish. His strategy? “To divorce the mind from the body for the day. My mind
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Fighting back from a rotator cuff injury, Jim Dreyer will attempt his most strenuous aquatic feat of strength to date on August 15th. The event, postponed from July 4th, will have Dreyer attempting to pull a new Lincoln MKC on a barge while swimming 3.58 miles to Mackinac Island
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Benoît Lecomte‘s The Longest Swim is now live on Indiegogo. “We just published our crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo,” writes Lecomte. “We need all the support we can get to make it a success.” The link to support his attempt to traverse 8,000 km across the Pacific Ocean in an
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Courtesy of Phil White, Grand Master of Order of Knights Memphre in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. The Order of Knights Memphre Ambassadors Sarah Thomas, Elaine Howley, and Craig Lenning will attempt to swim the length of Loch Ness during the week of August 22nd. If successful, Thomas and Lenning will be the first individuals in history
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Joe Rainero completed the unprecedented 7.6-mile (12.2 km) Kaibo to Camana Bay Swim on Grand Cayman Island in the Cayman Islands in 3 hours 45 minutes. “With the water a warm 82°F, the day started with very calm wind and water conditions. After swimming past Starfish Point, the waves
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Courtesy of Darren Miller, Three Rivers, Pennsylvania. Darren Miller organized the Three Rivers Marathon Swim (3RMS), a 30 km (18.6-mile) river charity swim for the Forever Fund. The course includes a 10 km swim each in the Ohio River, Allegheny River, and Monongahela Rivers and benefits families in need of help to cover the costs
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ollie and Vickie Wilkinson have started their charity Arch to Arc relay from Marble Arch in London to Paris. “Vickie has started running the 87 miles (140 km) from Marble Arch in London to Dover where she will tag me and I will launch myself into the cold, lumpy
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If interested in a paid photo shot for cold water swimmers who are Caucasian men ages 40-70s, this is your chance. The Blackwell Files, a real people casting agency in San Francisco, California, is looking for male cold water swimmers to participate in a photo shoot for a pharmaceutical
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