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With a goal to raise lots of money for the Navy SEAL Foundation, six swimmers from California, including the daughter of a Navy SEAL, will complete 228-mile (367 km) relay from Point Conception to San Diego along the California coastline. The Night Train Swimmers, a non-profit organization that raises funds through open water swims, announced […]
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This season’s first Reef and Run ocean swim kicked off the 2013 series in Santa Barbara, California. The Reef and Run offered three races: The Santa Barbara Swim Club 500-meter swim, The Santa Barbara Triathlon 1k swim, and The Elite Performance 1-mile swim. In the Elite Performance 1-mile, women swept the first two finishers. The
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Aussie Rules Swimming – Paul Newsome Carries On Courtesy of WOWSA, Manhattan Island, New York City. 14 victories since 1985. It is a rare – or never – that an athletic event in America is so dominated by Australian athletes. Marathon swimming – as in the annual Manhattan Island Marathon Swim – is one such
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When two swimmers with common ties meet, there are bound to be a lot of reminiscing. Canadian Olympic swimmer Sean Murphy (on left) and Harvard University swimming coach Chris Morgan bumped into each other in Cambridge. Their mutual circles of friends in the swimming world and swimming experiences from Hawaii to the Olympics set off
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On June 2nd on Athenée Beach in Djerba, Tunisia, Nejib Belhedi organized an Ouma event. 450 children and teenagers as well as representatives from the United Kingdom, Italy, Malta, Tunisia, and Libya took part in the Swim of Peace Ouma – Djerba. Meanwhile, a sister swim of ouma was held on the same day in
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Adam Walker is raising money for a variety of environmental causes (Sportsaid and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society) while venturing around the world on the Oceans Seven challenge. With the English Channel (solo in 2008 and relays in 2007 and 2008), the Molokai Channel (2012), a two-way crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar, and
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The 63rd annual Huntington Beach Pier Swim, and other swims along the Southern California coast, were cancelled today after some massive ocean swells brought gleam to the eyes of surfers and dread to the eyes of open water swim race directors. With a strong south swell pushing the waves in the 7-10 foot range, the
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It looks like Joseph Locke will give the 30-mile Farallon Islands crossing another try next week. Cold, distance, and the plentiful Great White Sharks are various elements to consider, but are not to be feared by the Harvard University graduate and financier. Locke can be tracked on the Night Train Swimmers website (here) after his
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There are well-established and well-known reasons why open water swimmers should stay together while out in the ocean or any body of water. But there may be another reason. And that reason Michael Spalding and Linda Kaiser instinctively knew when they have been jointly the object of a shark’s fancy while swimming channels in Hawaii:
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