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Story of Billy O’Connor courtesy of Traversée Internationale du Lac Memphrémagog (36 ans d’histoire) Nearing midnight with winds howling and the mighty lac Memphrémagog tossing and turning with endless whitecaps, Billy O’Connor was torn: should he continue his attempt across the lake, take refuge near the shore, or get out and try another day? It […]
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What A Year Doug Northway Had In 1984 Courtesy of WOWSA, lac St-Jean, Canada. In the previous Daily News of Open Water Swimming article about Lover’s Beach in Mexico, the field in the 24-mile race around Cabo San Lucus included the famed 3-way English Channel swimmer Philip Rush of New Zealand, one of the most
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Decades ago, there was a professional marathon swim in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico that attracted the world’s best of that era: Philip Rush, Claudio Plit, Paul Asmuth, Doug Northway, Monique Wildschut…the who’s who gathered in the tropical blue waters of the tip of Baja California for a tough 24-mile ocean competition. As the field passed
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When Jennifer Figge is crossing the Atlantic Ocean on her continuous stage swim, she encounters some massively large walls of water. When the seas rise up and toss everything around, it can be a logistical and operational nightmare to keep her safe and near her escort boat during her 32-day crossing. Her crew under the
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The more we learn about Jennifer Figge‘s AC4 (Atlantic Crossing 4), the more we are in awe of the logistical, operational, and navigational efforts that went behind her successful stage swim crossing. And the number of marine life that she came across ranged from tiny Portuguese man o war to whales. Big whales, right in
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Anytime anyone anywhere spends 133 hours in the ocean, traversing a total of nearly 5,000 km, they are bound to run into all kinds of marine life. Jennifer Figge knows that, especially when she does her stage swims across the Atlantic Ocean. So she uses Shark Shields. “During the last AC4 (Atlantic Crossing 4), I
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The Del Valle Open Water Festival in northern California is in less than two weeks. Race director Bill McCracken predicts that the weather will be superb and the lake water levels are strong. Over 200 participants are participating in the 5 km and 10 km events, there is plenty of interest in the longer distance
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Soft white sand, fluorescent blue waters, warm temperatures, perfect sunsets, beautiful sunrises, marine life, cool breezes…these are some of the sights and sounds of the world’s top beaches as proposed by CNN. Many of these swims are locations of established open water swimming events. Like Race For The Conch Eco-SeaSwim that is held in Grace
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When most open water swimmers see or hear dolphins in the ocean, they smile and look around for the friendliest mammals in the water. Like mermaids among sailors in the seafaring centuries of yore, dolphins are welcomed interlopers of the ocean swims. But Hank Wise, an 8-hour Catalina Channel swimmer, takes interaction with dolphins to
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Dr. Peter Attia, a Catalina Channel and Maui Channel swimmer, is out to change the world. And, potentially the most influential swimmer in America clearly has the relentless drive, a massively impressive intellect, and significant financial backing to achieve his goals. The co-founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI) is supported to the tune of
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