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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
In the 20th century when a shark was sighted, the usual response was a loud shout of “SHAAAARKKKK!!!“ Now in the 21st century when a shark is sighted, tweets go out. “…Scientists attach transmitters to hundreds of sharks, including great whites, to monitor their movements near public beaches…” so reports Sky News and Mashable about […]
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Jamie Patrick is estimating his 90-mile (144.8 km) solo crossing of Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Chicago, Illinois will take about 55 hours. And his non-wetsuit swim, called The Great Lake Swim, will be a media broadcast like no other, an unprecedented feat in itself. Patrick‘s marathon swim will be unique: * the swim
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World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year nominee Pádraig Mallon, comfortable in his own bioprene, went for a Pier to Pier swim in picturesque Carlingford, Ireland with members of the Camlough Lake Water Festival team including Jacqueline Galway, Mick Mallon and Milo McCourt. “It was a great success, cold and choppy but invigorating,” said
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The World Open Water Swimming Association published a list of 100 Things Every Open Water Swimmer Should Know. It also has a list with the opposite kind of information: 50 Things An Open Water Swimmer Should Not Do. These recommendations range from simple acts to major infractions of the rules or traditions of the sport,
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Freddy Maugatai knows something that all open water swimmers know: the mind matters. Freddy is a Samoan deck hand and veteran crabber on the reality television show The Deadliest Catch. With over 18 years of fishing experience, Freddy is focused, passionate and tough – and he shows it on every episode of the popular show.
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Teenager George Horvath of the Aquazot Swim Club in Irvine, California is among the fastest 14-year-olds in pools across America. But a year ago, he started to dabble in open water swimming. He was a natural. “He loves it,” says his mother Katherine Horvath. “He finds something special about swimming open water.” “I like the
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Yasunari Hirai of Japan (left), Xavier Desharnais of Canada (middle) and Samuel de Bona of Brazil (right) may be swimming again come 2016 if they qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games marathon swim. As the excitement builds, locals are estimating that the spectators on Copacabana Beach may be north of 300,000 people and possibly
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Before the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, we visited the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim venue. The Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park was a beautiful, spacious, new rowing and canoeing competition site that was also used for the first Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. But when we tried to look up the area in Google Maps, we could not
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Yuko Matsuzaki, a former professional marathon swimmer on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix, has swam in this area several times. “We need to swim inside of the yellow buoy, shown in the video, to finish. When we swam here, the starting point is 20 km beyond the bridge.”
It appears that Martin Goodman (shown on left), Roger Finch and Theodore Yach were railroading their way to Robben Island in Cape Town, South Africa with the use of some very decent-sized ocean swells at their backs. But as Finch describes, “The rollers were going in the opposite direction.” Sometimes the open water is with
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