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Prior to 1964, there were only two relay teams that successfully crossed the English Channel: the Rotherham Neptunus Swim Club that went from England to France in 11 hours 20 minutes in 1950 and the Folkestone Swim Club that went from France to England in 14 hours 57 minutes in 1954. [Read more…] Copyright © […]
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Gina Harris of Cousins Tours and Travel in Australia offers a number of holiday swimming tours and organizes the Great Victorian Swim Series, a 7-race open water swim series. In addition to language and culture, running, walking, triathlon, cycling, art, and cooking & culture tours, Harris also organizes five specialty tours and numerous customized tours
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On November 23rd, the Friday after the American Thanksgiving holiday, a group of swimmers completed a tradition for the Aulea Swim Club on Oahu. They swam across the Auau channel from the island of Lanai to Maui. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Whether you walk into the shore in La Jolla Cove or Sandycove, whether you escort a swimmer down the Paraná in Argentina or to Rottnest Island in Australia, whether you go for a cold water swim in the Czech Republic or South Africa, whether you lather on sunscreen in Waikiki or the Cayman Islands, the
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On Golden Pond – Adults Swimmers Go The Distance Courtesy of WOWSA. Channel swimmers do it. Marathon swimmers do it. Professional swimmers do it. Coaches do it all the time And so do evidently thousands of adult swimmers do it: Logging their miles swum during training in the pool and open water. [Read more…] Copyright
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Open water swimmers often dream of and then set about to do the impossible. Swim between two countries. Swim across a lake. Even just swim past the waves as only 63% of Americans can swim and less than 3% can swim non-stop over 500 meters. When presented with a challenge, they think, they reason, they
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Robert Tenorio Torres announced the 2013 Saipan Ocean Swim will be held on March 24th. The event in the Northern Mariana Islands includes swim of 0.6 km, 1 km, 1.3 km, 2.5 km in distance and will be held at the beautiful Saipan World Resort Lagoon, in combination with the Saipan Swim Club International (pool)
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Professor Aaron James is a surfer and a philosophy professor at the University of California at Irvine. He wrote an eye-catching and provocative book after noticing a certain kind of behavior among surfers in the Pacific Ocean. Selfish surfers would ignore the etiquette of surfing and cut him off on a wave. After considering this
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Oued Oullouza in Tunisia has played an essential role over the millennia to build and support the city of Carthage. It is the fishing source for the natives of the region of Sfax. As Nejib Belhedi is completing his Swim Across Tunisia, he was informed that the width of this natural river of life is
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“It’s a cloudy day.” “A heavy marine layer is blanketing the coast of Southern California.” Those are words that are typically not welcomed to outdoor adventurists. But we view clouds positively, both in the cold of winter and the warmth of summer. Perhaps this perspective is due to our location in Southern California, but here
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