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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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You could feel her apprehension, but also sense her excitement and degree of confidence bubbling underneath. Little 8-year-old Abby O’Sullivan of the Mission Viejo Nadadores did her first ocean swim today at the annual Seal Beach Rough Water Swim in Seal Beach, California. “I have swum in a lake before, but this is my first
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. His voice rang familiar at the 44th annual Seal Beach Rough Water Swim in Seal Beach, California. And for good reason. Scott Weir has participated in every single one of the 44 editions of the Seal Beach Rough Water Swim. “Yeah, I remember the very first one held way
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the annual Seal Beach Rough Water Swim in Seal Beach, California, the next generation of open water swimmers emerges year after year. For nearly five decades, the City of Seal Beach has been encouraging young children to be as comfortable in the ocean as they are in the
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We came across a new waterproof communication device that provides a communication link between swimmers in the water and their coaches on the pool deck, aboard an escort boat, or on a kayak. With the AquaTalk equipment, coaches can talk to their swimmers while the swimmer’s head is in the water. The real-time feedback can
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It’s brutal, but Dan Projansky is still going at it. The committed butterflyer from Chicago is in the middle of his 12.5-mile FKCC Swim Around Key West and Mother Nature is giving it all to him. “If you are going to make it, it’s not going to be easy,” is what She seems to say
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Captain Vito Bialla provides the voice-over of this video showing Joe Locke‘s attempt of a 28.5-mile swim from the Farallon Islands to California. Hearing the bark of seals, the favorite food of Great White Sharks, had to be unnerving when Locke jumped in the water. But he blocked those thoughts from his mind. Farallone 5
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Dan Projansky is stepping it up again. The committed butterflyer will soon begin the 12.5-mile FKCC Swim Around Key West swimming all butterfly on Saturday morning. All butterfly. No breaks, no walls, no freestyle. Just pure, unadulterated, uncorrupted, undiluted butterfly come currents, waves, or marine life. Dan Projansky, two arms together, feet together, and always
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The City of Seal Beach may be Ground Zero for the next American superstar ocean swimmer. The hometown of Lynne Cox seems to have all the right components. It borders on the Pacific Ocean. It is within eye shot of the Catalina Channel. It requires swimming lessons for all elementary school students. It has been
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