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Swimmers in Northern California have their Alcatraz Swims. The South Africans have their Robben Island swims. The Irish have their Spike Island swims. These are all part of the famed Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims. Now there is another part of the world where criminal elements enter the marine elements to allude the good […]
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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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When the issue of employing 8 code enforcement officers by the County of Los Angeles came up (see here), we call to mind the numerous other creative solutions decided by other jurisdictions around America. In New Hampshire due to the efforts of Greg Whitman and like-minded colleagues, both sides of the State House came together
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The men’s 3-mile race at the Seal Beach Rough Water Swim was a classic ocean competition that culminated in an exciting onshore beach finish. The mano-a-mano battle started right from the start between two Mission Viejo Nadadores teammates, Dan O’Connor from the University of North Carolina and Jan Daniec from the University of Virginia. Stroke-for-stroke
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If there were an opportunity to magically create the perfect female open water swimmer, what would be involved? The swimmer would be able to swim well in cold water, warm water, rough water, tranquil water, in the night and under the tropical sun. She could swim well in short
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If there were an opportunity to magically create the perfect male open water swimmer, what would be involved? The swimmer would be able to swim well in cold water, warm water, rough water, tranquil water, in the night and under the tropical sun. He could excel in both short ocean swims with heavy surf and
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While the marathon swimming world refers to its non-neoprene swimming activity as naked swimming (or skin swimming) as opposed to its neoprene-clad version called wetsuit swimming, the Australians in Long Beach took that definition one step further. At the Dark MOFO festivities in Sandy Bay, the Nude Solstice Swim kicked off with an inaugural naked
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Both the 1-mile and the 3-mile races at the Seal Beach Rough Water Swim start high up on the hard sand beach. This allows the crowd standing onshore and from the vantage point of the wooden pier to enjoy watching the swimmers of all ages and abilities hustle down the sand and dolphin through the
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Sylvain Estadieu is attempting to go where no man has gone before. He will attempt a butterfly crossing of the English Channel in September under the escort of Michael Oram. “My longest butterfly swim so far is 21.5 km in 8 hours in my local lake, but I will likely beat this a couple more
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Spanish open water swimmer HHector (Héctor Ramírez Ballesteros) introduced the first hip-hop theme song to the global open water swimming community (with his HipHopenWater Nadandolibre produced for Nadandolibre). And now his hip hop influence and that of Nadandolibre is spreading around the open water swimming world. The Bloody Big Swim has been celebrated by its
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