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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
The story of Maarten van der Weijden has been told in every possible way on every medium in multiple languages. But his story never gets old as he left indelible marks on the sport at the elite level among the top men in the world. To this day at the highest echelon of the sport, […]
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Anthropologists, genealogists, historians and the media often refer to different generations when explaining trends and demographic changes or characteristics in history. People occasionally talk about the Lost Generation (with an average birth date of 1914), the Greatest Generation (1923), the Silent Generation (1935), the Baby Boom Generation (1955), Generation X (1968), Generation Y (1975) and
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The Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli has been attracting the best marathon swimmers in the world, both professional and amateur, to its race since 1954. The 36 km (22 mile) competition has long been part of the top global marathon swimming circuits in the world over the past six decades, from the World Professional Marathon Swimming
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While swimmers occasionally battle against surface turbulence and winds on a micro level on a stroke-by-stroke basis, they also can find themselves battling against much larger macro forces like currents and tides. These natural phenomena are assigned names and studied by scientists. In last year’s attempt to cross the Sea of Cortez, Californian Paul Lundgren
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Earlier this week, we wrote how there seem to be more dolphins in the open water swimming training grounds in Huntington Beach, California than previously seen in the 1970’s (see article here). When we swim right outside the surf line along the coast between Sunset Beach and Newport Beach, it seems that the click of
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Every open water swimmer knows how their fingertips get wrinkles after being in the water a long time. For some, the wrinkles appear quickly and for others, wrinkly fingers takes a longer time. But the hands and feet generally appear a lighter shade than normal and there always seems to be excess skin on the
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Jellyfish are some the earliest creatures in the oceans. They started to appear 650 million years ago. Sharks are also old denizens of the deep with a history that dates back 450 million years ago. Sea snakes came about 300 million years ago. And they pre-dated the dinosaurs that were dominant a little over 200
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When open water swimmers tell others what they do, they often are the recipient of the following question: Why? Non-swimmers want to know why another human would subject themselves to swimming marathon distances, or in the cold water, or with sharks, or subject themselves to jellyfish stings, currents, and waves. Or why someone would willingly
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Another major warm-water ultra-marathon swim will be attempted in June. The stretch between Baja California and the mainland of Mexico has never been successfully crossed before – not by a relay or a solo swimmer. While Chloe McCardel will be attempting to swim 103 miles (165 km) from Cuba to Florida on one side of
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The swim under the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge by Jamie Patrick and Jaimal Yogis will be viewable live here at 4:15 pm today San Francisco time. The adventurous duo will swim from one end of the Bay to the Book Passage store in order to launch his new book – The Fear Project. Follow
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