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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach. Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu or Dr. NakaMats is the world’s most prolific inventor with 3,357 patents to his name. How he has remained so inventive from the age of 5 to his current age of 84 is highly unusual. He uses the water. Specifically, he dives under the surface to create […]
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The Olympic athletes will be presented as larger-than-life superheroes. But in the open water swimming world, these mild-mannered Clark Kents are difficult to distinguish on land with their humble attitudes and “everyman” aura. But put them in the open water and open water swimmers showcase their tremendously unique abilities and mental strengths. Copyright © 2012
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Sweden’s most prolific marathon swimmer Anna-Carin Nordin climbed up to #4 on the Oceans Seven list with her successful 12 hour 40 minute Catalina Channel crossing this week. Before the swim, she estimated that “it will take between 12 and 13 hours” and was right on with her own prediction. She has now completed the
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While Dover, London’s Serpentine, New York’s Coney Island, Boston Harbor, Chicago’s Lake Michigan, Australia’s Perth and Melbourne, San Francisco’s Aquatic Park, California’s La Jolla Cove, Indianapolis, Connecticut, Canada’s Lake Ontario, Argentina’s Parana, Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach, and Ireland’s Sandycove are world renowned centers where marathon swimming heroes and heroines regularly gather,
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Rondi Davies and Grace van der Byl became the first individuals to entirely complete the 193 km 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, a stage swim 120 miles down the Hudson River in New York. Conceived by David Barra, the 7-stage swim began at the Rip Van Winkle Bridge near Catskill, New York and ends at
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Open water swimming stalwart Finbarr Hedderman updated the Munster (Ireland) Open Water Swim Calendar. The remaining events of this Irish summer season include: The date, distance, event name, location and contact race director are listed below. July 7th – 2.8 km Nick and Simone’s annual swim & BBQ – Glenbeg, Caherdaniel, Kerry – Nick Mulcahy
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Among the 8,809 Openwaterpedia entries and 2,495,760 page views of people, products, places, services, coaches, pilots and events, below is the current list of the 50 most popular online searches in Openwaterpedia. Openwaterpedia is an online reference and research tool for the open water swimming community has entries posted in English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew,
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Hercules Troyden Prinsloo from Durban, South Africa qualified for the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km in London and is considered one of the darkhorses for a podium finish on August 10th in the Serpentine. A 2008 Olympian in the 1500m freestyle and 2011 graduate of the University of Georgia in the United States, Prinsloo shifted over
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Alexander Studzinski won the 25 km German National Open Water Championships last week in 5 hours 15 minutes. “We had to go faster than a 5:20 in order to qualify for the European Open Water Swimming Championships. So I had to push a bit right from the start. The course was a 1.25 km loop,
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Emma Otto-Moudry was blazing fast in shattering the 17.5-mile Ederle Swim course record from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to Manhattan Island in a time of 4 hours 38 minutes yesterday. The previous record was held by Evan Morrison in 5 hours 24 minutes. NYC Swim organized a record attempt based on favorable tides that the
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