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After climbing to the top of the channel swimming charts last year with his Oceans Seven exploit, Stephen Redmond is wasting no time at continuing to push the envelope further and colder. Noel Browne, his colleague on his challenges, explains, “For Stephen‘s latest exploit, he is planning on taking on the 50 miles (80.4 km) […]
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T Minus 10ºC – Has Fergal Somerville Set The Standard? Courtesy of WOWSA, North Channel, Northern Ireland – Scotland. When Fergal Somerville of Dublin completed the first North Channel crossing of 2013, he may have set the standard in cold water endurance. When Somerville completed the North Channel in 12 hours 21 minutes on June
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Just when you thought the end was in sight, Andy Magness may decide to lengthen it. The END-WET or the Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test, has been running for two years in the mighty Red River from North Dakota to Minnesota, but it is about to get longer. “My head is usually full of
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Thomas W. Kofler became the first Italian and 70th person in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with his successful Catalina Channel swim on July 29th. Under glassy conditions from beginning to end, Kofler landed on sandy Abalone Cove on the California mainland 14 hours 10 minutes after starting on California
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After Sally Minty-Gravett‘s record fifth English Channel crossing in five sequential decades, her legacy and longevity in the sport as an athlete, coach, and inspiration are clearly well-established. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming asked her to explain what makes her never want to get out. Daily News of Open Water Swimming: This is
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Back in 2007, Claudia Rose did her first ocean swim in Alaska, the 8.2-mile (13.2 km) Pennock Island Challenge. “This experience piqued my interest in swimming in cold, unfamiliar locales. I began researching other, bigger swims in Alaska.” The founder and president of an enterprise architecture and systems engineering firm, the engineer got to figuring
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Similar to humans who prefer fish or meat, orcas can have their own particular food preferences. In the Atlantic Ocean, some researchers have suggested that the separate preferences for fish and meat among orcas also lead to other changes and preferences. Some suggest that the orcas separated into distinct species because of their diet: fish-eaters
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Science Magazine reported that a chimpanzee named Cooper and an orangutan named Suryia have been taught how to swim surprisingly well. View a video tape of Suryia swimming below. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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At the 44th annual John T. Goudy Memorial Rescue Races, ocean swimmer Bruckner Chase tried something new. “It was a steep learning curve in my first South Jersey rescue race. It was a 200-meter swim to the flag. Then you clip on a 50-pound bag and bring it into shore.” Indeed, the summertime event is
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Nial Funchion faces assumed challenges and unexpected confrontations during his marathon swims as he runs up against cold water, currents, tides, wind-generated surface chop, marine life, and boat exhaust in the dynamic environment of channels and lakes. His swims are neither easy task to prepare for nor to accomplish. But he keeps going. And he
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