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Donal Buckley who eloquently explains marathon swimming to a global audience is feeling it today, despite swimming 28.5 miles in water that is much too warm for his liking. Buckley is swimming in New York City in today’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim where his speed has ranged from 0 miles per hour when he was […]
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Oracle founder Larry Ellison reportedly purchased 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai which is the start of the annual Maui Channel Swim and site of 234 swimmers who have crossed the 9.6-mile channel. The third-richest American with a net worth of US$36 billion, the US$500+ purchase of the sixth-largest island in Hawaii, loves big
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Without a doubt, Michael Phelps would be a great open water swimmer, if not one of the best of all time. The open water swimming world may never see Phelps body surf into shore, be fed from an escort boat or lead a pack around a turn buoy, but his aquatic talents would grace the
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The world is covered 70% with water … presenting almost unlimited opportunities to do unprecedented open water swims. Swim from point a to point B, swim across a lake, swim around an island, swim between two islands or across in a channel…outside of the usual waterways like the English Channel or the Rottnest Channel…and it
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With Adam Walker‘s nearly 17-hour conquest of the Molokai Channel along an unprecedented route that torturously took him along the southern coast of Oahu yesterday, the British swimmer joins the growing group of marathon swimmers who are closest to the exclusive goal of the Oceans Seven. With a brutal encounter with Portuguese man o war
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The Open Water Vacation Giveaway is provided courtesy of Open Water Source. Winners will be randomly selected from among those who register in advance for the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on the RMS Queen Mary between September 21st – 23rd. Four vacation giveaways will be given away among those
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The feats and drive of open water swimmers across the famed 26-mile (42 km) Molokai Channel just keeps going up and up. Since Keo Nakama completed the first crossing in 1961, the channel has challenged some of the best and hardiest swimmers in the world. Stephen Redmond was the latest swimmer to experience an epic
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Find out from Gold Medal Mel, where Chloe Sutton is now. Watch the 2008 Olympic open water swimmer’s latest video here. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Joe Dowd announced the annual July 4th Firecracker 8000. “It’s time again to brave Lake Natoma…all of it,” he encourages those who wish to swim 4.5 miles upstream in chilly water in northern California. But this year, Mother Nature has taken some of the chill and current off the agenda for Dowd and the rest
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The Olympic athletes are supported by a number of staff, from coaches and physiologists to translators and physicians. The pride in which the support staff takes in their role is visible and palpable. They wear their country’s uniform and colors just as proudly as the athletes themselves. They regularly go beyond the call of duty,
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