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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
“My crew and I are ready to go after dreaming of this challenge last year,” says photographer Meredith Novack. “It is my first channel swim and I have learned so much this year. We really are the little engine that could with a big dream and the heart and determination to get it done. There […]
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Video with world champion Thomas Lurz of Germany: Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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Greg Bonann, one of the Executive Producers and Director of Baywatch, became the subject of the fairy tale book “A Chance for Children” and was voted by the international committee of the Premio Sciacca at the Vatican City, for the “International Award Guiseppe Sciacca in Cinematography & Voluntarism”. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Bonann
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Phil White exudes an air of confidence. You not only puts swimmers at ease, but he also puts his money where his money is. He is touting the Georgeville or Bust as a 15-mile cold water swim on October 5th between America (Newport, Vermont) and Canada (Georgeville, Quebec). With ice swimmers like Charlotte Brynn in
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Jack Bright explains the history and his perspective of the incredible Bering Strait Swim in his own words: After what seems like an eternity we finally landed at the native village of Wales, the most western point of the United States of America after we started swimming from Cape Dezhnev, the most eastern point of
Abhejali Bernardova, a runner-turned-swimmer, enjoyed plenty of company during her recent 4 hour 35 minute crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar. Dolphins accompanied her. Lots of them. Vasanti Niemz recalls, “She kept swimming without looking up for quite a while – because she was looking at the dolphins swimming only a few meters below her.
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Walter Scott, an attorney and a former Navy SEAL, will attempt to replicate Penny Palfrey‘s 40-mile (64 km) channel swim from Santa Barbara Island to Pt Vicente on the California mainland starting on Saturday night. To date, Palfrey has been the only person to complete this 64 km crossing in 17 hours 53 minutes on
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Ned Denison described first-hand his 20-mile False Bay Swim in December 2012: He was the fifth person in history to cross False Bay from Rooi Els to Miller’s point in 11 hours 5 minutes under the guidance of escort pilot Arend Grondman. “I enjoy a blessing and a curse through my friendship with Kevin Murphy.
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If one encounters a shark, the International Shark Attack File maintained by the American Elasmobranch Society at the Florida Museum of Natural History of the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida conducts an investigation. Under the direction of George Burgess, the International Shark Attack File is a compilation of all known shark attacks worldwide. It
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Surfers, boogie boarders, and body surfers are pretty cool compadres to open water swimmers wherever we travel. If we swim parallel to the shoreline just outside the shore break, the surfers seem like guardians of the venue, patiently waiting on their boards for the next wave…as they watch us swim past. And their numbers are
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