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Science reported that researchers determined that a measleslike virus appears to be the chief cause of the droves of dead dolphins that have washed ashore along the East Coast of the United States this summer. Since July, 333 bottlenose dolphins have been recovered from beaches between New York and North Carolina which is ten times […]
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Diana Nyad has started on her fifth attempt across the Florida Straits. Follow her 103-mile attempt as are CNN, CBS, and a wide host of media outlets around the world here. Her 35-member escort crew is providing regular updates, but she knows that the sunset will bring box jellyfish up from the depths. If her
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Christine Jennings set the course record at the 16 km Faros Maratón, but she made some ultimately clever decisions and made up some valuable time along the way. Fellow American competitor Lexie Kelly who finished eighth explains, “The start was really spread out across the harbor. One pack went right and another went left. Christine
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Dr. Josip Aralica and his 16-year-old daughter Lucija, swam the 38th annual Faros Maratón together. Not stroke-for-stroke, but it was a friendly match race with the professional marathon swim in Croatia. This was Josip’s third race in the 16 km Faros Maratón, but it was Lucija’s first attempt. With Lucija training with Olympic marathon swimming
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Injuries, illnesses, stings, all kinds of obstacles have been thrown in his way. But Alexander Studzinski of Germany finally put all the roadblocks behind him as he cruised to a comfortable victory at today’s 16 km Faros Maratón (Croatian International Long Distance Swimming Championships). The German police officer’s victory had been a long time coming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Christine Jennings finished third again for the second week in a row in Europe. Last week, she finished third overall in the 19.5 km BCT Gdynia Marathon in Poland, but she was the first woman by a comfortable margin. Likewise this week in Croatia, she was third overall and
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South Africa’s Theodore Yach and Martin Goodman will attempt to become the first swimmers to complete a 35 km swim from Hout Bay to Robben Island later this month. If they complete the estimated 12 to 15 hour swim, they will swim past Seal Island – a breeding ground for sharks. But the more likely
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Glen Christiansen, a 1980 Olympian from Sweden who just came out with new swimming book, gave an ocean swimming clinic to the swimmers at the Japan International Masters Open Water Swim in Yumigahama Beach in Shizuoka, Japan. About 2 hours south of Tokyo, Yumigahama is one of Japan’s Top
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Nothing in the English Channel is guaranteed, but when Dr. Marcy MacDonald stands on the shores of Dover, there is good money on her chances of completing what she sets out to do. Since 1994, the podiatrist from Andover, Connecticut has been crossing the English Channel between France and England. And she has gradually become
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When Scott Zornig of Laguna Beach, California created the stage swim concept of Fear No Pier, he had a specific purpose in mind. He wanted to challenge himself and others in the open water with something new. He had done his share of channel swims, marathon swims, and coastal mass participation ocean swims. He wanted
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