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The 4th annual Turks & Caicos Race for the Conch Eco-SeaSwim is coming up on July 6th. Big red starfish, huge conch shells, and the occasional eagle ray gliding along the bottom are potential distractions for the participants of the fourth annual Race for the Conch Eco-SeaSwim. The event features 2.4-mile and 1-mile races, as […]
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Relatively few swimmers in the world have traveled to so many places to do so many marathon swims as Chris Palfrey. If it is not Chris in the water, it is his wife Penny Palfrey doing all kinds of channel swims, training swims, marathon swims, and open water races in Europe, the Caribbean, the South
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Becca Mann, Haley Anderson, Seal Ryan, and Andrew Gemmell have qualified for the USA Swimming national open water team that will compete in Barcelona, Spain at the upcoming World Championships. This week, trio will have a heavy schedule in the pool at the 2013 USA Swimming National Championships through June 29th in Indianapolis, Indiana. The
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When you are battling neck-and-neck with another competitor, what is the wisest move to make? Do you veer into your rival and take him away from the straight-line tangent to the finish? Do you swim straight and parallel to your opponent? Do you feign fatigue, fall back at his hips, and then make a final
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This year alone, we have already flown over 100,000 air miles covering solo swims and open water swimming events around the world. There have been delays and cancelled flights, lost luggage and rude staff, turbulence and bad movies. With the crowded skies becoming even more crowded, we see flying as a great experience for what
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Anna Wardley is set to Round Jersey tomorrow. Her 41-mile (65.9 km) circumnavigation of the Island of Jersey in the middle of the English Channel is her third stage in the 5 Islands Challenge charity swim. Her fourth circumnavigation will be a 30-miler around Hebridean Tiree, and the finale will be a 60-miler around the
A leader in the water and in the boardroom. South African Theodore Yach is at 72 and counting. Yach has for more than four decades completed a solo swim from Robben Island to Cape Town 72 times. In 2009 he became the first person to swim from Cape Town around Robben Island and back. But
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Kate Orff’s creativity and vision are compelling. Back in 2010 and showcased at the Museum of Modern Art, Orff made a model that demonstrates how the long-since-gone oyster islands of South Brooklyn in New York City can be created. At the exhibition, Orff explained her dreams. “We propose to nurture an active oyster culture that
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The Statue of Liberty Swim in New York City is one of the more interesting, symbolic, and unique open water swims in America. The Statue of Liberty Swim is a circumnavigation around Liberty Island that is actually the remnants of an giant oyster reef known formerly as Big Oyster Island. For Americans, the statue is
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Based out of Tennessee, the Caribbean SEA (Student Environmental Alliance) works throughout the Caribbean island nations in an effort to empower local youth to take care of their marine environment through camps and education programs like Kids4Coral in St. Lucia. The Kids4Coral program teaches children in St. Lucia to swim and snorkel and to appreciate
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