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Lexie Kelly is planning a long weekend a la Ned Denison-style: a double century swim. “We will do our annual 100 x 100s Christmas set at McGaugh Elementary School this Friday, starting with toes in the water at 10 am. The short course yards century swim is as follows but any and all are welcome […]
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In the same holiday season where hundreds of pods of swimmers are doing their annual 100 x 100s in pools across the world, the Oak Streeters, a pod of open water swimmers in Laguna Beach, California, is set to do their 100 x 100s open water style this year. Instead of doing one hundred one
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The Telecom Foundation People’s Champion, Ben Richmond, is on a mission to educate kids in New Zealand about water safety. He is gearing up to swim 10 km in a bid to raise $10,000 for Water Safety New Zealand. Richmond and his best mate, Malcolm Cleland, are taking part in the Taupo State Epic Swim
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Goody Tyler completed an Ice Mile in the Great Salt Lake Marine in Utah last week to join the International Ice Swimming Association. One of the founders of the Wasatch Front Polar Bear Club, Tyler is a passionate member of one of the most dedicated winter swimming clubs in the United States. Tyler kept to
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Darren Miller of Team Forever on the Oceans Seven and giving of himself: Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Memorial swims are swimming events or races that serve as a focus for memory of something or someone, usually someone who is deceased. Memorial swims include events that celebrate the legacy of a race founder, commemorate a spectacular achievement, call attention to a local individual or young person who died tragically in the water, or raise
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Davis Lee Enjoys Thrice The Fun Of Open Water Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA. Dr. William “Davis” Lee, a physicist from Man-O-War Cay in the Bahamas, took his talents from the tropical warm waters of the Caribbean to the rougher, colder waters of the Triple Crown. Dr. Lee, who received his doctorate in physics from MIT,
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Ron Adley announced a new Ocean Care Solutions for Lionfish Kit. “The kit will be available by January 15th. It is another product in our increasing line of marine sting products including a newly formulated jellyfish sting relief spray.” Lionfish are colorful marine fish with venomous spiky fin rays. Its presence is increasing around the
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Nejib Belhedi completed his final stage of the 1400K Swim Across Tunisia on December 15th. Started amid the political turmoil and social upheaval in 2011, and continued through unimaginable problems and, at times, with armed escorts. The Swim of Peace was fueled by Belhedi’s relentless persistence and emotional drive over the past year. He never
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Victoria West won the women’s division at the 31st Possibly Annual Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim in 1:49:35 with Kathryn Taylor second in 1:56:23 and Miki David third in 2:00:45. West, originally from California, now works on Oahu as the Marketing Director of i9 Sports Honolulu. The former competitive swimmer is now enjoying
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