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According to Open Water Source’s unofficial survey of the global open water swimming market and its over 6,500 events and competitions, there have been 29 deaths in open water swimming competitions since 2009 … and dozens of accidents in the sport. This data excludes the number of deaths that have occurred in triathlons or other […]
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The documentary film 50 year old FRESHMAN: Suzanne Heim-Bowen will be shown at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California on September 21st. Director, producer and star will be in attendance to explain the production and story lines. Deborah J. McDonald, Director and Producer of the feature
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Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist at the University of Oxford, is famous for Dunbar’s number. He believes that people can maintain 150 relationships with other humans, a measurement of the cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships. “When people add more than 150 friends on Facebook,
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Solid, liquid, gas are the states that water is found. This is the basic information taught to youngsters around the world in school. But, as teenagers and adults soon learn about the community around them, the real world is usually much more complicated with all kinds of shades of meaning and definitions. This is true
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Ambergris is, frankly, whale vomit. It has a marine fecal odor with a mixture of smells like seawater, oyster shell, dune, sea grass and ocean breeze. It is also the key traditional substance that perfume manufacturers have used to create scents and perfumes. Ambergris is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull gray or
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If the women’s race at the RCP Tiburon Mile is impossibly tough to predict with Emily Brunemann, Becca Mann, Ashley Twichell, Melissa Gorman, Christine Jennings vying for the top US$10,000 prize, the men is even more so. Long-time participant Ous Mellouli of Tunisia is not taking part. Neither are former champions Thomas Lurz of Germany,
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Tina Neill became the first person to swim from San Clemente Island to the Southern California mainland today. The famous backstroke-swimming channel swimmer finished the 52-mile (83.6 km) ocean swim in 28 hours 41 minutes to join the 24-hour club. Neill holds the world records for the fastest backstroke crossing of the Catalina Channel (10
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At the 2102 Battle of the Quants, a gathering of algorithmic asset traders in the financial sector, quantitative analyst Aaron Brown started his presentation with a statement of the following numerals: 3.14159. He waited. He knew someone in the audience would respond. “265358,” came the answer from the back of the room. Together, the range
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Swimming Across Lake Michigan And Watching History Courtesy of WOWSA, Long Beach, California. During the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference, Greta Andersen will speak and engage the audience on a number of her swims: racing 5 times across the English Channel, getting pulled from the Molokai Channel due to sharks, completing the first two-way
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Big, smooth displacements of water in the ocean – the rhythmic movement of ocean swells – can be used to your advantage while swimming in the coastal open water locations. Railroading is when a swimmer uses the power of large wind-generated waves or ocean swells to push them forward
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