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Rick Walker of Southern Illinois University and Catherine Vogt had once before been fellow coaches on the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Team. How times have changed and opportunities have risen. At the 2012 London Olympics, Walker will be the head coach for the Egyptian Olympic swimming team while Vogt is coaching two swimmers […]
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“How are you feeling, sir?” asked Darren Miller to Stephen Redmond on the shores of the Tsugaru Channel yesterday when they first met in Tappi Misaki in Japan. “Couldn’t be better. I am ready to get this [channel swim] done with,” said the Irish swimmer who has already completed swims across the North Channel, English
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WIGS produced this documentary on Diana Nyad, appropriately called Diana. WIGS, a digital channel that produces high-end, original, scripted dramatic series and short films about the lives of extraordinary women. Diana is about 62-year-old Diana Nyad, an iron-willed swimmer determined to realize her dream by swimming from Cuba to Florida. Iron will is an understatement
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The Tsugaru Channel is the least known of the 7 channels that make up the Oceans Seven. The channel is in a far-away land where Japanese is the only local language spoken – presenting additional challenges for non-Japanese marathon swimmers. The Japanese escort boat pilots are experienced fishermen in the area, many of whom have
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There is a certain amount of misinformation reported in the media about open water swimming. The World Open Water Swimming Association looked at the data in an attempt to distill fact from fiction, reality from rumor. One issue that is commonly reported in the press is that “More people have been in outer space than
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Luane Rowe, a 23-year-old Australian who began working at FINIS last year, combines her industrial design expertise with her passion for open water swimming to do her job. As a side perk of her responsibilities, she also is able to fit in open water swims throughout the Americas, from the Waikiki Roughwater Swim in Hawaii
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The open water swimming community is doing more and more POW (Pool Open Water) events, but the Japanese have really stepped it up a notch. Instead of doing a POW competition in a rectangular 50-meter pool, the Oiso Prince Hotel hosted a POW event in its hotel facilities at its seaside resort location – near
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With Darren Miller and Stephen Redmond ready to take on the Tsugaru Channel, Japanese is on the minds of their crew members including Miller’s brother, a documentary film crew from Red Bull Media House, Captain Mizushima and lead coordinator Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi. Out in the ocean, during
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Jason Lassen will attempt to be the first person to solo marathon swim from Beaver Island in Lake Michigan to the shoreline in Good Hart, Michigan. Similar to his record-setting breaststroke swim across the Catalina Channel in 2010 that was done without the benefit of GPS technology, the 39-year-old Lassen plans to complete the entire
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Traditional Swedish goggles or Aquasphere’s wide-angle lens? Mirrored or clear? Prescription or optical? Open water swimmers have so many choices of their favored goggles – and the choices continue to expand as the sport grows. When a child puts on goggles for the first time, they just grab a pair, put them on their head,
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