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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As swimmers cross channels, circumnavigate remote islands, and swim from shore to shore across lakes around the world, the near real-time news of their swimming exploits is often lost. Often out of mobile phone range and without Internet access, especially on channel swims and during marathon swims, fans and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. How to learn to swim, a 24-page booklet by Professor Frederick Cavill published by in 1884, includes practical swimming advice and press reports of Cavill’s swims around the world. Cavill, a remarkable man who lived between 1839 and 1927, was known by his nickname the ‘professor of swimming‘, a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On June 3rd, the guest speaker at the Trinity College Dublin’s Tuesday Night Bites series for FAT will be Irish ice swimmer Nuala Moore. The Trinity College Dublin’s series is a unique opportunity to hear about the science, repercussions, and advantages of fat through talks and workshops with representatives
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. GR Krishna of Carbo-Pro recommends a detailed hydration schedule for the six athletes of Sueño 88 who will attempt to become the first humans to swim 88 nautical miles (101 statute miles or 163 km) across the Sea of Cortez. From the Baja California peninsula to the mainland of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kaeti Bailie is an artist who owns the Artifax International Gallery and Gifts store in Sonoma, California, but she moonlights as an open water swimmer. “I like to start with common objects such as a shoe, a figure, a postcard, or some other personal artifact and combine them in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Peter Young is president at Hookuleana LLC and former Director and Chairman of the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources, where he was responsible for a US$100-million budget and nearly 1,000-employees overseeing Hawai`i’s natural and cultural resources, including ocean waters, coastal programs, and natural area reserves. With family
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Many coaches wake up early in the morning and continue to coach and inspire swimmers until late at night. Sibani Makhanya of the Seals Swimming Club in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa is one of those special coaches. The young man from KwaMashu in South Africa is as passionate and dedicated
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Scottish have the Loch Ness Monster. The people of Vermont have their Memphré. The Welsh have the Afanc. The Japanese have the Amabie (アマビエ). The Indians have the Makara. And the Māori of New Zealand also believe there is something more to fear than sharks and jellyfish. The
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Story and photos are courtesy of Kirsten Cameron about Dr. Mike Bodger‘s attempt to swim the Cook Strait as a 60th birthday present to himself in February 2010. This past week, our household had felt it had become experts on weather and tides. All day every day we have been checking the Met Service and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Olympians Janet Evans, Jason Lezak, Chloe Sutton, Rowdy Gaines, Anthony Ervin, and Jessica Hardy were in Long Beach, California today giving advice on how to be safe around the water. With a collective 20 Olympic medals and 38 world records between them, they all had fantastically interesting tidbits of
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