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When open water swimmers gather around the fireplace and talk about all the great gathering holes around the world, certain locations always come to mind. Dover, Sandycove, Serpentine, Sydney, Perth, Waikiki Beach, Copacabana Beach, Cancún, Seven Mile Beach, Cape Town. But from our biased Californian point of view, San Francisco’s Aquatic Park is nearly impossible […]
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Hannibal is widely considered to be one of history’s greatest wartime strategists. His military conquests ranged over several decades where he motivated his armies to enter battles that killed tens of thousands of individual. Whether he reigned in terror or in a benevolent dictatorship, he had a way to get the local communities to bend
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How is filmmaking like channel swimming? They both start with an idea that eventually grows into some much greater with the effort and passion of an artisan. They both involve a number of stages and a large number of people before they are both completed. They both include many out-takes, mishaps, and miscues that occur
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Race coordinator Rich Rossway announced the 10th annual Teal Lake Swim to be held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The point-to-point 2.25-mile swim between the cities of Negaunee and Ishpeming is a fundraiser for the Diabetes Kids Camp. With over $80,000 raised, the calm lake swim is a brilliant display of civic pride and enthusiasm with
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John Riggs knew what he had to do. Stranded 2 miles from shore near Deal Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Riggs had to swim to safety. It was most certainly a life-and-death situation for not only himself, but also for this 70-year-old father, sister, 9-year-old niece, and 3-year-old nephew. His family members, buoyed by their
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It is rocking and rolling aboard the two escort boats Mon Amour and Secret Love as the Swim Across America relays have now reached the halfway point of their 22-mile charity swim. Once past the 11-mile mark on the far edges of the Boston Harbor Islands, the ocean swells started to really shake the boats
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“The swim is great, the energy is up, and its been a great day so far,” calls in Andrew Kitaeff of the MassGeneral Hospital for Children Cancer Center. “Dr. Gregory Lauwers is representing Mass General Hospital and has been swimming well. The MassGeneral Hospital for Children Cancer Center is so happy to partner with Swim
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The thing we greatly appreciate and respect about open water swimmers is their integrity. There is no wiggle room in the sport; there are no shortcuts. Swimmers face Mother Nature head-on. They traverse from one shore to the shore; they swim around the buoys; they cannot avoid oncoming currents or punishing waves. Open water swimming
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Some of the most enthusiastic and generous supporters of an open water swimming charity event jumped off boats in Boston this early Friday morning. From elite athletes like Heather Petri, Brooke Bennett, and Kristy Kowal sporting their Olympic medals to masters swimmers sporting wetsuits, the Swim Across America Boston Harbor Swim kicked off early. The
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Here’s one useful present to your favorite open water swimmer or coach: the Kindle Paperwhite. It is a waterproofed ereader that enables swimmers, coaches, kayakers, paddlers, pilots, observers, volunteers, officials and escort crew to be able to read a book onshore, documents in a boat, or maps in a kayak while never worrying about rain,
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