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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are probably few people on Earth more comfortable in the open water and its denizens of the deep than Erin Bakey Brown. The 45-year-old recently completed the Alcatraz Sharkfest in the bioprene division, although for work she is occasionally wrapped in neoprene. The aquatic mammal trainer is a […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. George Horvath defended his title at yesterday’s 1.5-mile Alcatraz Sharkfest® in San Francisco, California. The blazing fast pool swimmer from the Aquazot Swim Club in Irvine won the neoprene division in 30:32 over 682 other swimmers while Erin Frizzell finished 11th overall winning the women’s division. Baratte Collin (31:30)
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Brenda Sherratt was training to become the first person to swim 36.2 km (22.5 miles) across the length of Loch Ness in Scotland. She did training swims in Bala Lake (5 km), Coniston (8 km), Coniston (16 km) before her special birthday swim across Windemere in the Lake District
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Looking around the world, two unprecedented swims in the Central American country of Belize would appear to be very beautiful and very challenging swims. The shorter swim would start at the Turneffe Atoll, a group of small Caribbean islands off the coast of Belize. It would be a tad
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tomasz Pąchalski is a young man with a passion for open water swimming. The manager of the professional-amateur BCT Gdynia Marathon has really helped develop open water swimming in Poland at all levels. He has also brought a number of world-class pro swimmers to Poland for the 19.5 km
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Raul Lizano and Lexie Kelly won their respective division at the 22 km swim from the island of Tabarca to the city of Alicante, Spain. “After traveling from Los Angeles and then getting on a 6 am boat ride to the island of Trabaca, I was a bit sleepy
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Courtesy of Ocean Recovery Alliance from Hong Kong to Macau Swimmer: Simon Holliday Paddler: Shu Pu Support Crew: Arni Highfield, Doug Woodring, Michael Becker, Andrew O’Regan, Kirk Robinson, Maggie Dou, Cruzanne Macalister Video Camera Crew: Oliver Deppert, Damian Antochewicz, Sam Lewis Photographer: Anthony Kwan Aerial Video Pilot: Jeffrey Yim Copyright © 2014 by World Open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matías Ola, a renowned ice swimmer and a Nadador Extremo from Argentina who was part of the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year in the Bering Strait, is hosting a major extreme swimming competition in his native Argentina. Unir el Mundo (International Winter Swimming Festival Argentina)
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On May 31st, Bill Shipp completed what may be the first documented solo double crossing of the Chesapeake Bay as part of his training for an upcoming solo attempt of the English Channel in September. Shipp, who has done a number of marathon swims along the East Coast, left
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Carina Bruwer will take her Swim For Hope project to Europe this month. The mother and lead player of SAMA Award-winning instrumental pop group Sterling EQ will undertake two crossings in Italy in support of the Little Fighters Cancer Trust, a South African organization that supports children with cancer
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