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500 meters from Nishinoshima is a new island being formed. Slowly but surely, the cauldron is boiling over and making land where none existed before. Nishinoshima is a volcanic island that is part of the Volcano Islands in Japan. The islands are part of Ogasawara, south of Tokyo by 1000 km (620 miles) and are […]
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87 years ago today, Canadian George Young entered into the annals of open water swimming history. The Toronto teenager was the lone finisher out of 102 swimmers in the 1927 Wrigley Ocean Marathon Swim, a 20.2-mile traverse across the Catalina Channel in 15 hours 44 minutes. “We put a covering of graphite over the grease
Open Water Swimming – Experiential And Episodic Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We had the great pleasure of meeting Olympic champion Shane Gould and her husband and renowned coach Milt Nelms in the South Pacific at the Fiji Swims. It was great to hear the couple talk about their swimming experience through the years
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Odaiba Marine Park Getting Ready For 2016 In preparation for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Tokyo Olympic Games, one of the world’s most densely populated and smoothly running metropolises is hosting open water swims at its marathon swimming site.cities The Japanese hosted a 1.5 km Tokyo Swim with Olympic 800-meter freestyle gold
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Attila Mányoki of Hungary completed the English Channel in August 2013 in 10 hours 47 minutes. A view of his crossing at the start near Dover on the English coast and 21 miles away as he nears the French coast gives a hint of his even pace and steady 70-72 strokes per minute: Copyright ©
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Over the course of the 40 editions of the 57 km (35-mile) Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda in Argentina, there have been 21 winners in the 57 km (35-mile) race in the Coronda River…and 17 times it has been won by a swimmer from Argentina. From Carlos Larriera (1961, 1962) to Horacio Iglesias
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Stubby Kruger was an Olympic swimmer from Honolulu, Hawaii who found his way to the 1920 Antwerp Olympics and later Hollywood where he buddied up with Duke Kahanamoku, Buster Crabbe and Johnny Weissmuller. He was a waterman and a backstroker who performed at carnivals and fairs billed as the Incomparable Water Comedian. He also had
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the lobby of the Hotel McAlpin on Manhattan Island in New York on September 21st 1927, the lobby was filled with luminaries from a golden era of professional open water swimming. A group of that generation’s greatest aquatic stars, organizers, Olympians and marathon swimmers got together and formed
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Catalina Channel record holder (Catalina Island to mainland) Grace van der Byl and her kayaking husband Neil run the Southern California Open-water Swim Support for interested open water swimmers and triathletes. The Southern California Open-water Swim Support (for crew / kayakers) is posted here. For swimmers who are interested in kayaking support across channels, around
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Penny Dean accomplished something no one had ever done before or has accomplished since: simultaneously hold the English Channel and Catalina Channel records (7 hours 40 minutes from England to France in 1978) and 7 hours 15 minutes from California to Catalina Island in 1976).Dean trained for her channel swims with a rare intensity. She
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