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Parisian Victor Douieb was initially a dental ceramist and technician. “This gave me the knowledge and experience that later made sculpturing very natural to me. One day while at work, I suddenly got the urge to sculpt a little shark out of silver, not realizing that 20 years later, sculpting would become my profession.” Going […]
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Underwater cinematographer Richard Theiss discusses his personal experiences with sharks, shark conservation, and his work documenting sharks. “Besides different film proposals about several shark species and the threat of radioactivity in the marine ecosystem, I am making contributions to the Republic of Kiribati regarding developing dive ecotourism in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area and will
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Vadim Ilyuschenko from Donetsk, Ukraine organized the inaugural 4km Azov Sea Marathon (МАРАФОН АЗОВСКОГО МОРЯ) in the Sea of Azov in Mariupol, Ukraine on August 24th. Video of the event can be downloaded here. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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Julian Rusinek will be departing the California mainland on the Blue Fin late tonight from Ventura for his unprecedented one-way and two-way attempt between the islands of San Miguel and Santa Rosa in the California Channel Islands. While the one-way distance is only 3.6 miles, it is potentially an extraordinarily wild and totally gnarly swim
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A group of 20 swimmers swam a 42-mile (67.5 km) group relay from Ohio State Street in Chicago to Michigan across Lake Michigan on August 20th. Their 23 hour 1 minute Swim Across Lake Michigan effort was a charity swim that raised over US$110,000 to fund a cancer research project at Rush University Cancer Center.
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Egypt had a slew of great open water swimmers in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s including one man considered to be one of the greatest marathon swimmers of all time: Abdul Latif Abou Heif. There were races and promotion in the sport. Recently Mohamed El Zanaty and Mazen Aziz Metwaly represented Egypt in the last
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Marc Lewis became the first person in history to swim the 28 miles from Santa Rosa Island to the coast of California. The Crossing, a film by Stephen Lewis, documents his journey. Marc completed the swim in 2008 in 15 hours 46 minutes. This is his story by Stephen: Copyright © 2013 by Open Water
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Julian Rusinek is a Southern California ocean swimmer who is always out for adventure. He not only participates in local ocean swims with regularity, but also joins in on channel swims and did the Fear No Pier event. This Saturday, Rusinek will attempt the first solo swim between San Miguel Island and Santa Rosa Island
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Marwan Shédid is an open water swimmer from Egypt who once blazed the English Channel in 1976 in 9 hours 17 minutes [photo above is circa 1976). He also completed the 32 km Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Roberval, Quebec, Canada, competed five times in the 24 Heures La Tuque marathon relay, and finished
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Tony Sibio, the event director for the Swim Across America Long Island Sound, announced the events in Long Island Sound raised US$1,000,000 over the summer. “We are the oldest, largest community within Swim Across America events, and over the last 21 years, together, we have raised $15 million. Our sound swim was met with a
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