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Charlotte Webby convincingly dominated the 3.3 km State Capital Classic in Wellington, round three of the State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series today. After swimming together at the start with her archrival Cara Baker, Webby stepped up the pace at the 1000m mark and won by just over a minute. Her victory was a big […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As the top professional marathon swimmers travel from the shores of the Paraná River in Argentina, Napoli in Italy, Cancún in Mexico, Santos in Brazil, lac St-Jean and Lac Memphrémagog in Quebec, Canada, they leave a wide path of friendship, laughs and smiles. The FINA Open Water Swimming Grand
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Ocean Recovery Alliance worked with local educators, Graham Uden and Wolfgang Bern to plan, execute and film human aerial art on Kids Ocean Day Hong Kong. The group of over 800 children, teachers and volunteers created a Chinese White Dolphin along the Hong Kong coastline on Repulse Bay Beach in November 2012 in order to
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Daniel Takata Gomes is a statistician, professor and talented columnist and reporter of pool and open water swimming in Brazil. One of the key assets of the SWIM Channel Magazine who analyzes the sport in unique ways utilizing data in a clear, colorful manner, Takata has helped shape the upstart Brazilian publication that was awarded
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You swim in cold water, get out and then the afterdrop occurs. You are shivering and you want to get warm – warm from the inside out and from the outside in. You get dry, get dressed and grab that warm cup of joe, tea or chocolate. But your hands are shivering, moving too quickly
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Ron Yannone is a prolific patent holder and an Engineering Fellow who just began swimming in his 50’s. This is his story, a remarkable stroke of success. “When I worked for General Electric in New York in 1976 I was overweight – weighing 225 pounds (102 kg) on a 5 foot 9 inch frame (175
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Tonight about 4:45 pm, Miguel Arrobas will be on Portuguese television RTP1’s “Portugal no Coração” program. The Oceans Seven aspirant will discuss Portuguese vocation for the seas while integrating his crossings of the English Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar was well as his connections with the sea from New York (Manhattan Island Marathon Swim)
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Bali, Fiji, and Perth…and many beaches in between. Tiffany Fraser-Gillard is an adventurous Australia open water swimmer who has traveled and completed in various swims around the Pacific, swimming over innumerable reefs, around sand bars, along picturesque coastlines. The 41-year-old won the 2012 10 km female Bali Ocean Swim as well as solo swims of
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“Don’t swim for 30 minutes. Don’t swim for 1 hour.” Many children hear this warning from their parents and other adults. “You cannot swim after you eat. You will get cramps and drown.” “What?!? Cramps, why? Drowning, no way,” is what I thought when given this warning. While the adults tried to instill fear of
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There are literally millions of swims around the Planet Earth that have not yet been planned, attempted or completed. Swimming around or across the thousands of islands in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific Ocean are alternatives. Swimming around Aruba, a 20-mile long island in the Caribbean Sea is another. A circumnavigation around the 6-mile-wide
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