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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
In an example of how international the global community of open water swimming is, American Catherine Vogt is the marathon swimming coach for Ous Mellouli, the Olympic gold medalist from Tunisia who also looking to qualify for the 10 km marathon swim in Setubal Bay, Portugal this weekend. The blonde hair, blue-eyed Vogt has enjoyed […]
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At the 2008 World Open Water Swimming Championships, teammates, swimming fans and prognosticators were shocked when world and Olympic champion Grant Hackett did not qualify for the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Hackett had everything you could imagine in an open water swimmer: proven sprinting speed (with a 1:46 200m freestyle),
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Decades of training, years of preparation, dreams of the Olympics. That is what all the marathon swimmers have under their swim caps. Yet, as open water swimmers, they must expect the unexpected…and that is what they are getting in Setúbal Bay along the Portuguese coast 40 km south from Lisbon, Portugal for the 2012 FINA
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As the northern hemisphere summer heats up and open water swims start to dot the weekend calendars, the number of swimmers who take to the oceans, lakes and bays in neoprene wetsuits increases. The sleek look of black skimming along the surface along shorelines and coastal waterways is a sure sign of the popularity of
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Allen Collins, curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and Evan Orellana of the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton, reported that the dreaded and extraordinarily venomous box jellyfish has started to appear in Florida in much greater numbers. “We’re seeing this happening everywhere all over the planet. Species
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9,762 adult swimmers, from Olympians to newcomers to the world of aquatics, are heading their way to Riccione, Italy to participate in the 14th FINA World Masters Championships. The organizers in the seaside town found their most popular event was the 3 km open water swim. Among all the butterflyers, backstrokers, breaststrokers, freestylers, relay members
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There is a free 1-mile open water swim in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts on June 16th to honor International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famer Jim Doty. The bedrock of the New England open water swimming community, he dedicated his life to promoting swimming and a clean environment in New England waters. His legacy will be celebrated
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The GADD (GaddinAbtGarnish 2012) is back. “It is a meandering swim with 1 km, 3 km and 5 km options, something for everybody. It is not a race. This year, we have loads of novices again. Some swimmers from last September’s event are moving up a step to 3 km,” says Oswald Schmidt, the race
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Go with the flow and open water swimming is easier. Go against the flow (tides, currents) and open water swimming can be frustrating, tiring and an act of slow-motion progress. Purposefully going against the tides feels…well…satisfying to finish. Facing this ebb and flow is what 6 swimmers of the Chalkwell Redcaps will do in 6
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…their classroom is the ocean … we look at the ocean differently when we use it … listen below how Bruckner Chase frames the discussion at the BLUEMiND conference in the Outer Banks, North Carolina about the incredible potential of Samoan tradition. Chase talks about merging this Fa’a Samoa with the ancestral knowledge of moving
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