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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
When Thomas Lurz just barely touched out Brian Ryckeman, and Martina Grimaldi did the same to Angela Maurer in the FINA World Championships in Barcelona, the fantastic 25 km world championship race spelled the end of an era. For nearly 20 years in the water and another 24 years on land, Australian Shelley Taylor-Smith has […]
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In a recent article, the venomous box jellyfish was mentioned. “…the box jellyfish, normally found in the Indo-Pacific, had migrated to the Florida Strait. Almost transparent, with 5,000 toxin-firing barbs on each 10-foot-long tentacle, the box jellyfish is particularly venomous…” Note entirely true according to jellyfish expert Dr. Angel Yanagihara. “The box jellyfish or cubozoans
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24-year-old Alice Franco is a professional marathon swimmer. Her goal? To compete in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. She has been training for years, long sessions in the pool like Odysseus in Homer’s famous poem Odyssey. She knows nothing will come easy and the ultimate of commitment and courage will be necessary to make the
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Quintus Sertorius (c. 126 BC – 73 BC) was a Roman statesman whose brilliance as a military commander was shown during battles against Rome for control of Hispania. At a time when most military personnel could not swim, the Sertorius once swam across the Rhône River in southern France although he was critically wounded and
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Leonardo Pisano Bigollo, a talented Italian mathematician who lived in the 12th and 13th centuries was known as Fibonacci (and Leonardo of Pisa). In his Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation) published in 1202, he described a number sequence. 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144…are the first set of
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After competing in the King and Queen of the Sea event in Rio de Janeiro, Pilar Geijo (on right with American Lexie Kelly and Britain’s Keri-Anne Payne) imagined that Pedro Rego Monteiro, Luiz Lima and Patrick Winkler had a casual and relaxed conversation some years ago. “They were probably talking about their time as swimmers
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Shier Mendelson was born around 1895 though the exact historical details are unclear as his family was in transit from Romania to Canada during that time. Mendelson won the 1.5-mile ‘Toronto Across the Bay” competition in Ontario, Canada for the first time in 1913. The Toronto Across the Bay swim started at the Harbor Commission
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Ice swimmer Jack Bright set out on a goal and achieved it this past week in Siberia. The filmmaker of Winter Swimming and a member of the Bering Strait Swim completed his personal goal of swimming 1000m in Tyumen in what he calls an ice hole in water that neared 0ºC. “It is always a
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Penny Lee Dean, the long-time record holder of the English Channel (7 hours 40 minutes from England to France in 1978) and the Catalina Channel (7 hours 15 from California to Catalina Island in 1976), launched her fourth open water swimming book on Amazon yesterday. Her 196-page softback entitled “Just Try One More” is a
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In pool swimming competitions for the long distance freestyle events, there are standard lap counters. A teammate or friend generally stands at the opposite end of the starting blocks and places plastic counters under or near the water surface so the swimmer can keep track of their laps in a race. In the open water
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