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The Night Train Swimmers relay team swam 181 miles (291 km) down the coast of California last year, sometimes encountering sharks as they swam 20 miles off shore. “We raised US$1.2 million for our Marine Veterans returning from conflicts around the world, which we donated to the Semper Fi Fund,” explains Vito Bialla, the catalyst […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With Shark Week on the Discovery Channel featuring a variety of programs dedicated to sharks, we are glued to the innovative, dramatic, and picturesque programming that is currently broadcast in over 72 countries. We have written a handful of articles related to sharks and the open water swimming world
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jaime Caballero added to his impressive marathon swimming resume today with a successful two-way crossing of the English Channel today. A fast swimmer from San Sebastian, Spain, Caballero has what it takes to stick through a 42-mile channel swim under less-than-optimal conditions. He has the typical characteristics of a
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Grzegorz Mytnik, Tomasz Pąchalski, and Kazimierz Woźnicki helped create Polish open water swimming history when they organized the first Polish Open Water Swimming National Championship on August 3rd. The event was organized at small lake in Kryspinów next to historical Polish city of Cracow and included a 5 km race for 14-16 year olds, a
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Due to weather and conditions, the Bering Strait Swim was reportedly halted for 10 hours (see report here in the Marathon Swimmers Forum). When Bering Strait Swim is halted in the middle of the relay, what do you call it? This brings up an admittedly minor linguistic issue, but one in which some marathon swimmers
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Market research shows that the red and yellow colors are the most easily recognizable in times of emergency on the beach. So lifeguards wear red. In an emergency, you want a lifeguard to be visible. The red and yellow uniforms from Australia to America have been used by a number of International Lifesaving Member Federations
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Listen to the all-time great nearly-hour-long interview here.
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If there is one way to prepare for a multi-day, extremely cold water relay near the Arctic Circle, it is to swim a really long distance in cold water at high altitude. Which is exactly what Craig Lenning did. The Colorado marathon swimming stalwart swam 42 miles (67.5 km) in a two-way crossing of Lake
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We believe the Bering Strait Swim is one of the most dangerous and inherently risky open water swimming adventures of all time. Like Arctic adventurers of yore, the men and women of the Bering Strait Swim are entering into inherently risky waters doing something uniquely unprecedented. Ryan Stramrood of South Africa reports on his Facebook
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Sharks are high on the list of fears of most open water swimmers. But the number of sharks in the world’s oceans is dwindling. The media often refers to figures of 70-100 million sharks that are killed each year. We wondered where these figures came from. Sarah Bedolfe, Coordinator of Marine Research for One World
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