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A beautiful day in the Lake District greeted British swimmers in the Lake District National Park’s Coniston Water on September 14th. With 250 swimmers, the course of Chillswim Coniston was the entire 5.25-mile length of the lake from Low Water End to Monk Coniston. Swimmers were split into three start times based on their predicted […]
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Cork Lions Club and the University College Cork, in association with the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and the World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA), are proud to present the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland. A bevy of speakers from Europe to Africa will address myriad topics of environmental, scientific,
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Charlotte Samuels joined 20 other marathon swimmers in the inaugural 15.1-mile (24.3 km) Cape Circumnavigation Challenge around Cape May, New Jersey. The conditions were pretty tough – as expected. Race director Jason Malick explains the term ‘Swim Interrupted’ in the official results, “Swim Interrupted means that the rips (5-6 foot waves) were too dangerous to
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Charlotte Samuels tells the story of the Cape Circumnavigation Challenge around Cape May in New Jersey: “…the waves we were swimming over were 5-6 foot waves and [my kayaker] almost flipped. When we stopped for a feed, Mike told us that the tide had turned and for the past couple minutes we had been swimming
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Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros who recently completed the first butterfly crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar, created the song Hip-HopenWater Nadandolibre together with Jose Diaz. The lyrics in both Spanish and English are below: Sale sol amanece en Australia, nadadores, tiburones blancos nadan en las aguas de Italia. Pocas horas para la competición, nadadores lucharán para
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Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros completed the first butterfly crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar. Coached and promoted by Jose Diaz, the former competitive swimmer known by his nickname HHector in the hip hop world, completed the 14 km crossing in 7 hours 5 minutes. It was interesting to see his escort boat function as a lead
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The prolific American three-man relay team of Chris Kraus, Brian Ross, and Rick Gaenzle successfully crossed the Tsugaru Channel last week and the Molokai Channel today, finishing on Oahu in 13 hours 45 minutes. The crossing in very windy and choppy conditions was their fifth Oceans Seven channel swim – in five attempts. The trio
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“They do important artistic work that helps people with burns and injuries,” said Diana Nyad about Stefan Knauss and Gina Cohen of Aesthetic Prosthetics. “After my experience with the box jellyfish in 2013, I never would have gone back [to attempt the Cuba-to-Florida swim] if I had not been aided by this nth degree of
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Darren Miller‘s final Oceans Seven crossing between Scotland and Ireland was officially observed and later ratified by the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association (ILDSA), the official governing body of the North Channel. In the video below, you can see there is a rock where Miller starts his North Channel crossing. Miller was careful to document
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Courtesy of WOWSA, from the Tsugaru Channel in Japan to the Straits of Florida in the Caribbean Sea. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming has described and covered swims that use a swim streamer including swims by Stephen Redmond, Darren Miller, Adam Walker, Chris Kraus, Brian Ross, and Rick Gaenzle across the Tsugaru Channel
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