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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Junk will make his attempt of his fifth and sixth Oceans Seven channels this summer. Tonight in Hawaii, his kayaker Steve Haumschild will lead him off Kalua Koi on Molokai Island for a 26-mile attempt of the Molokai Channel starting around sunset. The 55-year-old Junk will also be […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We had the opportunity to observe Coach Tony Rich, a professional triathlete, at Boston University. The personable endurance athlete and coach was in his element, coaching masters swimmers and triathletes. Himself a three-time Ironman triathlete, he is one of the few triathletes who has finished Ironman-distance triathlons both outdoors
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 62-year-old Bill Goding [shown above], Quinn Riordan and Masa from Japan swam a three-man solo crossing from Lanai Island to Maui across the Maui Channel this afternoon in a ripping fast 3 hours 41 minutes. Linda Kaiser reports, “3:41! There was a huge current and light winds. They had
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At 75 Years Old, Harry Huffaker To Tackle Molokai Again Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Harry Huffaker first crossed the 26-mile (42 km) Molokai Channel in 1967. During his 13 hour 35 minute Molokai Channel crossing, Dr. Huffaker saw a large shark underneath him and immediately headed for his escort boat to call it
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The Luck Of The Draw For Jorge Crivilles Villanueva Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sometimes it is rough. Often it is like a lake. But with a long marathon swimming resume that includes swims in various locations throughout Spain, across the Strait of Gibraltar and the English Channel, and around Manhattan Island, rough and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in the ol’ days (pre-GPS, pre-jammer, pre-Facebook, pre-mobile phone, pre-Shark Shield), there were more than a few remarkable swims buried in the archives of the sport. But contemporary swimmers have a great approach to calling attention to these long-lost swims. The common bond between Paul Asmuth and Grant
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Listen to an interview with Lynne Cox courtesy of here: BBC The icy swim that warmed Cold War relations. What is so striking to us is not the fact that the brilliant Lynne Cox completed the first crossing from Little Diomede (U.S.A.) to Big Diomede (U.S.S.R.) in 2 hours 6 minutes on August 7th 1987,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chris Blakeslee (aka El Sharko) conducted test swims of 10 km and 20 km in Tomales Bay, north of San Francisco in Marin County on June 20th. El Sharko whose oft-claim (“I never met a shark I didn’t like“) is an indication of his passion for all things open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Tokyo metropolitan government will open a swimming beach at Kasai Rinkai Park (葛西臨海公園) this weekend – for the first time in 50 years – as a pilot program to see if there is demand for a beach in central Tokyo, a megalopolis of nearly 32 million people. Since
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. So it seems that contemporary ice swimmers may be well ahead of their times and the predicted climatic shift. The Daily Mail reported on predictions by scientists that the Earth may enter a mini Ice Age by 2030. While only a few thousands of bioprened people around the world
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