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When the Tsugaru Channel was added to the Oceans Seven, most channel swimmers around the world said, “Where is that? There are tides in the English Channel, jellyfish in the North Channel, huge ocean swells in the Molokai Channel, sharks and cold water in the Cook Strait, night swimming and whales in the Catalina Channel. […]
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The Across Øresund Swim is an 8 km open water swimming competition between Hamlets castle Elsinore in Denmark and the Scanian city of Helsingborg in Sweden. The event is an annual tradition of over a century. According to event director Manne Sådär Lorentzon, there are still 6 spots available for interested open water swimmers to
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Up and down the coasts from Brighton to Busselton and many places between, piers dot the coastline of hundreds of countries. But there may be no other place on Earth that melds the sport of open water swimming and piers as well as California. From San Diego in the south to Santa Cruz in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cork Lions Club and University College Cork, in association with the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and the World Open Water Swimming Association, will present the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Ireland on October 11th – 13th. “There are so many things happening in the open
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Jim Bayles, an English Channel Half Century Club swimmer, is on his way across Lake Erie on the standard 24.3-mile (km) crossing sanctioned by the Lake Erie Open Water Swimming Association (LEOWSA). According to Josh Heynes, founder of LEOWSA, “Jim can be followed his on the SPOT Tracker as he tries the join the small
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At the memorial swim for Michele Daschbach Fast last week, aquatic aficionados of all types came out to honor the quietly positive, always inspirational friend, neighbor, and swimmer. Her family and friends, including many Olympians from various aquatic disciplines and the USA Junior National Water Polo Team, honored the Seal Beach swimmer with the Michele
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It is rare in any sport that an athlete goes five for five. A 100% success rate is what every athlete strives for. But it is even more rare when an athlete goes five for five over five decades. It simply have never happened before for a female athlete. But Sally Minty-Gravett is such a
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Anthony McCarley became the latest member of the English Channel Half Century Club with a 13 hour 29 minute crossing of the English Channel. The 54-year-old American open water swimmer started at 4 am, swam through the morning and afternoon with Andy King as his boat pilot. “It was a tough, rough swim. The water
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When the Night Train Swimmers begin their 228-mile (367 km) ocean swimming relay from Santa Barbara’s Gaviota State Park to Coronado, south of San Diego, they will be swimming concurrently while some of the world’s best ultra-marathon runners simultaneously run more than 300 miles down the coast. The ultra marathon runners will meet up with
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Paul Rekoff started the 20-mile Cape Cod Bay Swim at 5:08 am yesterday from White Horse Beach in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was attempting to complete a swim in which only 4 others in history had completed: Russell Chaffee (1968), Greg O’Connor (2012), Janet Harris (2012), David Barra (2012), and Eileen Burke (2012). Escorted by Massachusetts
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