To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Not only is it a spectacle to see over 15,000 swimmers arrive from all over South Africa and the globe gather at the aQuellé Midmar Mile in South Africa, but it is also a wonder to observe the small army of staff and volunteers who help put the world’s largest competitive open water swimming event […]
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Everyone is eligible to receive a free Toyota Aygo at the aQuellé Midmar Mile. Among the over 15,000 entrants this year, ten luck aQuellé Midmar Mile entrants will be selected to stand in line to win a Toyota Aygo worth R120,000. Each person is given a car key and is asked to try to open
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Every year, Lorna Cochran will not commit that she will return to the aQuellé Midmar Mile. But like she has been doing since she first started in Midmar at the age of 76 years in 2000, the sprite 90-year-old showed up at the starting line like clockwork. “It was wonderful,” said Cochran who swam 9
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When we see so many individuals doing unprecedented swims in oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers, we are reminded of Captain Kirk played by actor William Shatner on the television series Star Trek. Shatner narrated the following, “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new
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Novelist Pico Iyer calls his kind, The Floating Tribe. An Indian of blood and ancestry, Iyer was raised and educated in England, but has lived for decades in both Japan and the U.S.A. He is similar to the estimated 220 million individuals around the globe who live outside their country of origin. Like New Yorker
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If there was anyplace for a die-hard open water swimming to feel right at home, it would be the Manta Resort off Pemba Island in Zanzibar. As Africa’s first underwater hotel, it sits 4 meters below the surface and 250 meters off the coastline in the Indian Ocean. Torquoise waters and marine life in an
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A 52-minute adventure documentary by German filmmaker Rouven Blankenfeld, Defeating Oceans Seven, will be shown on March 8th at the 11th Annual San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival. It is a film produced by Red Bull Media House that documents Stephen Redmond’s question to become the first person to achieve the Oceans Seven. “There are
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Event director Glenn Taylor and the organisers of the First National Kimberly Lake Argyle Swim pay attention to friends, family, media and spectators as well as the competitors in the 10 km and 20 km race in Lake Argyle in Western Australia. The race offers 3 separate opportunities to watch the 10 km and 20
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The Shire of Wyndham – East Kimberley (SWEK) has been a long-time supporter of the First National Kimberly Lake Argyle Swim in Australia. In 2014, SWEK funded the ‘2014 Marker Buoy Project’. This project will ensure the open water swimming courses are extremely well-marked. Event manager Glenn Taylor explains, “Even a ‘Seeing Eye Dog’ will
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