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In the open water swimming world, a key position to fill at every competition is the Medical Officer. This position is called various names like Medical Director or Medical Delegate, but it usually is filled with an experienced medical professional including physicians, nurses, or EMT‘s. While each sanctioning body, association, series, local governmental authority, and […]
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Lynn Kubasek created a video of 2 relay teams: Live Bait (Julian Rusinek, Theo Schmeeckle, Peter Hayden, Natalie Merrow, Kelley Schall, and Carol Hayden) and Aged Chum (Scott Zornig, Michael Sullivan, Lisa Nordholm, Kevin Seres, Rob Dumouchel, and Lynn Kubasek) as they both swam from Santa Cruz Island to Silverstrand Beach on the California mainland
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When Usain Bolt runs or Michael Phelps swims, it is beauty in action. When classic artists paint or Frank Lloyd Wright designs, it is a masterpiece of creativity. Similarly, when certain people enter the open water, it is beauty in action and a masterpiece of creativity. We see it being done, but we have a
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A new 10.5 km marathon swim will be held in Palermo, Italy from Sferracavallo to Mondell. Trofeo a nuoto per 2 Golfi is a coastal swim, organized by Giuseppe D’Alessandro and La Waterpolo Palermo, is set for September 13th 2014. For more information, visit here. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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The 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference, WOWSA Awards, and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies will be held between October 11th – 13th in Cork, Ireland. The festivities will kick-off on Friday with a Civic Reception in the Mellenium Hall at the Cork City Hall at 6 pm and will feature many
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Tomasz Pąchalski is a young man with a passion for open water swimming. The 26-year-old manager of the professional-amateur BCT Gdynia Marathon in Poland recently gave a highly-acclaimed lecture at the Polish National Coaching Conference held in Krakow between September 26th to 29th of September. The largest swimming conference in Poland attracted 350 coaches and
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Tennessee marathon swimmer Karah Nazor continues to out-do herself. After completing the English Channel, we wanted to do more for the sport. She is one of the few individuals who is capable of not only organizing one of the largest and most popular marathon swims in America, but also being competitive in the same race
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Bruckner Chase writes… “On September 29th, 2009 a tsunami caused by an 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck the island of American Samoa with virtually no warning, killing over 30 people, wiping out villages, and causing extreme destruction in the major city of Pago Pago. Four years later there are still remnants of houses clinging to the
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Kara Robertson has put open water swimming on the map in Nevada in the middle of the American southwestern desert. Few open water swimming races in America have grown as rapidly as the Slam The Dam event in Las Vegas. But because the event is held on Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the U.S. federal
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Tanya MacLean works for an environmental consulting company by day and enjoys swimming with her Southern California teammates throughout the year, including her recent unexpectedly long Anacapa Island swim off the coast of Santa Barbara in California. Whether she does a channel swim or a local shoreline race, MacLean is nearly always found smiling. We
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