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It was the suggestion of the Daily News of Open Water Swimming to organize and host the panel discussion that vetted Diana Nyad‘s 52 hour swim from Cuba to Florida. The first step was to select and recruit the panelists. The goals were to include administrators, kayakers, and swimmers from the marathon swimming world. These […]
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ven… I’m stunned and I must say very humbled, honoured and quite silenced.. (For once. ) This is probably the greatest compliment-I’m much better at promoting others -for me it’s about keeping my head straight always.. My prize has always been my own random round of applause at the end of the stairs the odd
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A 2.5 mile presidential open water swim in Washington DC to raise awareness for clean water. The Clean Rivers Project is DC Water’s ongoing program to reduce combined sewer overflows into The District’s waterways – The Anacostia and Potomac Rivers and Rock Creek. The Project is a massive infrastructure and support program designed to capture
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mihir Sen (মিহির সেন) was a man of unusual talents and an accomplished marathon swimmer, inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. His exploits and achievements were celebrated twice in his native India by two separate Prime Ministers. Sen was awarded two separate civilian honors: the Padma
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“I love the logistics and planning of a swim,” describes Wayne Soutter at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland. A swim in 1928 and 1929 was attempted 3 times by Mercedes Gleitze that attracted his attention between Scotland and Ireland. “What I needed was a boat and a captain,” explains Soutter.
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Annaleise Carr, the youngest participant in the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland, is a young lady well beyond her years. She was honored during the WOWSA Awards for being voted online as the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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Open water swimmers are serious minded types of individuals. They live by the mantra, Expect the Unexpected, but they also plan and detail out many contingencies and options before their swims. Likewise, we heard that some open water swimmers want to make sure of a blissful future life with their fiancé or fiancée. These are
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I would like to introduce you to Damian Blaum, an Olympian (10K) and the top professional marathon swimmer in 2013. He would like to attempt a crossing of the Catalina Channel in August 2014 as a charity swim for Worldreader. I do not believe a swimmer of Damian’s abilities has attempted the Catalina Channel since