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Thomas Took Time Courtesy of WOWSA, English Channel. With the English Channel season being kicked off this week, swimmers from around the world are converging to the shores of Dover. Many are swimming for charity; many are taking instruction from Freda Streeter. And a few are attempting the Channel for the second time. Attempting the […]
One of the world’s top 100 open water swims took a hit from the Tropical Storm Debby passing through the Caribbean Sea this weekend. But Por La Libre – Cancún to Isla Mujeres was still a hit in Quintana Roo in Mexico. American traveler Bill Ireland said, “Hurricane Debby didn’t cooperate. They had to cancel
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Five-time Emmy award-winning director and producer Doug Myers captured the sights and sounds of Paul Lundgren and his support crew on camera in Lundgren’s first attempt to swim 76 miles (122 km) across the Sea of Cortez. While his first attempt ended after 24 hours and 30 miles, the allure of becoming the first to
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On Saturday 23rd June The Henley Classic was postponed from June 23rd to July 8th. The action was taken on the advice of the Environment Agency and the swim safety team. Jeremy Laming explained, “I took a call from the Environment Agency duty officer informing me that an unexpected volume of water triggered Amber boards
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The Great Glen is traditionally crossed by boot, boat or bike. But Alina Warren is no walker, runner, boater or biker. No, she is a swimmer and will attempt the Great Glen Way, made up by 3 lochs (Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy) and a canal between. However, she will attempt to swim
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Scott Zorning, president of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association, announced 26 channel swim attempts between the Channel Islands and the coast of Southern California during the 2012 summer season. Most of the swims are from the small volcanic island, Anacapa, that lies about 11 miles from the California, while a few of the marathon
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Ashley Cochrane of Mount Maunganui College in New Zealand, together with Jackson Edwards, are hosting a Polar Bear Plunge on June 27th in the Bay of Plenty on the North Island of New Zealand. They are organizing the charity event in order to help raise money and awareness for the Leukaemia and Blood Foundation, after
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Anna-Carin Nordin finds herself on the shores of Seal Beach staring out to Santa Catalina Island, her fourth channel in her pursuit of the Oceans Seven. The Head-sponsored swimmer trains year-round in a lake near her home in Sweden. From November through April, the water is very cold, but she keeps acclimated by swimming 10
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Training for a channel swim can be lonely. Hours and hours of solitary swimming, both back and forth in a pool and up and back along the shoreline. Alone with their own thoughts with limited vision, it is a marathon endeavor in a cloistered environment. Stroke after stroke, kilometer after kilometer, hour after hour, day
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Doug Rice has been one of the fixtures of the ocean swimming community in Hawaii since 1975. Always smiling, always up for an ocean swim no matter what the conditions were, the college educator was the ideal teammate and supporter of ocean swims. A fixture at the morning Ala Moana Beach Park crew near Waikiki,
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