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Plastic bags obtained at supermarkets and shops worldwide may be jellyfish’s best friend. As the global proliferation of jellyfish continues, one of jellyfish’s few natural predators – the sea turtle – is under siege indirectly by mankind’s refuse. Sea turtles mistake plastic bags for one of their staple foods, jellyfish. If sea turtle eat jellyfish, […]
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Trent Grimsey of Australia was disqualified at the recent State Harbour Crossing race in New Zealand for impeding the progress of Troy Prinsloo of South Africa. The video evidence was promised to show the reasons for this disqualification. A mention of the impeding disqualification by Grimsey is included in the first video below at 7:25.
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In Tyumen at the Russian Winter Swimming Championships on December 16th, the ultimate endurance race was conducted in a water temperature of 0.3°C and air temperatures between – 30°C and -33°C. Within the greater battle between swimmers and Mother Nature, another mano-a-mano contest was courageously fought among the giants of the ice swimming community. From
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“Every swim is hard and no fun,” recalls Dieter Loeliger who swims the annual Rottnest Channel Swim in order to keep fit physically and mentally. “I was an asthmatic, still am, the swim can help with my asthma to a degree.” Since the inception of the race in 1991, more than 16,500 relay swimmers and
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Stephen Redmond of Ireland is among the 15 nominees for the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year. His story is shown below. The World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year honors those who (1) best embody the spirit of open water swimming, (2) possess the sense of adventure, tenacity and perseverance
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The bioluminescent comb jellyfish has roamed the earth for over 525 million years. It generates light, flashes of blue-green, to startle its predators and its eight comb rows to swim (away). It contains proteins that enable it to generate light. According to researchers, these same proteins may have given rise to the diversity of light-sensing
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Retired Newport Beach Lifeguard Captain Buddy Belshe passed away this week from complications to Alzheimer’s Disease. A veteran Newport Beach (California) Lifeguard for 47 years, he started his ocean career by working 10 years in Huntington Beach. Belshe came from a family of watermen and women with legendary longevity. His father was the first full-time
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Loud voices in the night speak out Sparks fly then turn to ashes White waves break under grey stars Old snow slides over winter sand I stand near ice-covered rocks and Look south over black currents To site distant ships with colored lights In the cold crosswinds Then I look for the Ambrose Light… I
I look west through a large open window close to the old Harbor at a little before midnight I feel a slight cool wind as it blows summer leaves towards a loud stream I think of dark waters and salty ocean depths by the cold Passage Then I look beyond a fast moving grey cloud
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Mirroring the upward trajectory of open water swimming in general, the discipline of ice swimming is also exploding around the world. Instead of concrete around a pool or a tropical coastline along an open water course, hardened extreme swimmers are encased in the white outlines of a frozen lake, the frigid boundaries of a river
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