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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The inaugural Great Ulster Swim will be held in Camlough Lake on July 26th in concert with the 750m GLOW Summer’s Night Swimat 11 pm. “We hope to encourage our next generation into open water swimming and to a lifetime of adventure in the water,” says the Team at […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Marilyn Korzekwa became the first Canadian to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with her 10 hour 2 minute circumnavigation at the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. After her 16 hour 40 minute English Channel crossing in 2011 and her 14 hour 24 minute Catalina Channel crossing
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Photo courtesy of Newport Beach Lifeguard Department, Newport Beach, California. A paddle out, a traditional tribute for a waterman’s legacy, for lifeguard Ben Carlson was held in Newport Beach where he passed away in heavy surf when he saved another swimmer: With 6-8-foot surf pounding the Newport Beach‘s 16th Street on July 6th, 32-year-old Ben
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Photo courtesy of Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register, California. It is rare that open water swimmers get publicity in a front-page article of a major American newspaper, but Julian Rusinek (53), Ray Meltvedt (54), Scott Zornig (54), and Eric Peters (57) pulled it off in an article entitled ‘Bad fish or bad PR? Shark attacks
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Winds during any open water swim can be tough and frustrating. Channel swimmers Anne Cleveland and Michael Miller describe how they face the winds, currents and tides on their marathon swims. “I completely agree that surface conditions can destroy a channel crossing much more than tides, currents, up to
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Courtesy of Pat Gallant-Charette in Casco Bay, Maine. Saturday’s 33rd annual 2.4-mile Peaks to Portland swim held in scenic Casco Bay under sunny skies. 363 swimmers participated with only a handful of swimmers in the non-wetsuit (bioprene) division. 9 swimmers were pulled from the 58ºF (14ºC) water due to difficulty with hypothermia. The winner of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In Australia, men can expect to live to the age of 79 years while women can expect to live to 84 years. With an extra 5 years of living, many different things can happen. In the case of Irene Keel, one of those things may be a crossing of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ranie Pearce of the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco has been knocking off channel swims and marathon swims around the world after her 50th birthday. She completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with her 9 hour 53 minute circumnavigation in Group 3 of the 2014
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Windy conditions and 11ºC water greeted some of South Africa’s most extreme swimmers, who gathered at Marina Martinique to take on the JBay Cold Water Classic. Seven swimmers started the 7.5 km swim, but only three managed to finish. “It was cold out there but I settled down and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Eric Christensen is a 39-year-old American pool and open water swimmer from Florida. He set the overall record and the 35-39 age group record at the Lucky’s Lake Swim in Lake Cane, Florida. Christensen is a former University of Florida swimmer and NCAA All American as well as a