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It was huge out there in the very best meaning of the word. The Clean Half was showered by perfect weather with a fairly calm and warm ocean, and only a few currents to deal with today in Hong Kong. A new course record for the solo 15 km was broken by Trent Grimsey, who […]
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Radio personality Marcus Connaughton, the voice and authority behind Seascapes (shown on left with Ned Denison), was the host for the morning sessions at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. Connaughton is the research arm and voice behind the maritime programme for Ireland, a one-man dynamo behind the microphone. Seascapes is broadcast online around
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Kevin Murphy of the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation discussed The Great Duel at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland. The Great Duel was a famous series in 1977 that pitted Kevin Murphy versus Des Renford. “The Australians wanted to seek a British champion who could be beaten by Renford. I
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Nick Adams, who started channel swimming as a teenager, gave a presentation at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on how to develop the next generation for open water swimmers. “I started in 1992 when the world of swimming was a very different place.” There are also the extremes in the sport who ended
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“I do not swim myself. I started because I drove my daughters to swim meets. I started to time and I was able to stay awake. They asked me to help them,” explained Niek Kloots of the Netherlands, one of the featured speakers at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. I use Drupal to
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Robert Devoy, a Professor in Physical Geography at University College Cork and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, gave a presentation on the relevance of climate change to open water swimming at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. “The oceans are a store of heat and gas, but climate regularly
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“I would swim in the oceans in Hawaii and did an early morning swim and coming in through the coral and was hit by something that I could not see what it was. It was a fiery feeling and fought to get back to shore. As a biochemist, I was intensely interested in this thing
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Dr Thomas Doyle Cert. Science, BSc, PhD, a Research Fellow at the Coastal and Marine Research Centre of the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork gave an educational talk at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. Among other things, he has spent time putting tags on jellyfish off the Irish Sea. “It was
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To kick off the Global Open Water Swimming Conference, Stephen Redmond and Anna-Carin Nordin gave a fascinating swim-by-swim description of their Oceans Seven achievement. The audience was in total rapture. “I had this perfect day, a miracle. It was perfect. It was never like that,” said Anna-Carin Nordin. “I had not done anything like that
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Radio personality Marcus Connaughton, the voice and authority behind Seascapes, introduced the Lord Mayor of the County of Cork to open the 2103 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. The Lord Mayor explained the multiple reasons for having the Global Open Water Swimming Conference. “We have a thing in Ireland called The Gathering in Ireland. It
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