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Marathon swimmers love facing and overcoming everything the ocean can throw at them. And there are few places like the desolate Farallon Islands. 30 miles (48 km) west of San Francisco, the stretch of misery throws up barriers like few other places on Earth: rough water, cold water, jellyfish, tides, currents, the darkness of night […]
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Sarangani Bay Invasion is a 15 km open water relay swim from Kamanga Beach in Maasim to Glan as part of the Sarangani Bay Festival in the Philippines. The professional race was formerly known as the Swim-Across-the-Bay or the Across-the-Bay Open Ocean Swimming Competition where each team consists of 5 swimmers rotating legs across the
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The updated 24-hour Club list below includes solo swimmers who successfully completed solo swims or competed in races that lasted a minimum of 24 hours. These individuals have demonstrated the ultimate in endurance, stamina and patience. The list does not include any stage swims, swims assisted with wetsuits, fins, shark cages or other equipment, swims
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At the Jamie’s Swim Camp 2.0, dozens of experienced swimmers including a number of channel swimmers ranging from Oceans Seven Darren Miller and Marathon Swimmers Forum co-founder Evan Morrison to cold water extremists and Tahoeists enjoyed a long weekend of swimming, eating and conversations ith their fellow swimmers. Conversations centered around the where, when, who,
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Not only will there be great conversations and presentations at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California, but there will also be artwork from various open water swimmers from around the world enhancing the conference rooms aboard the Queen Mary. Dr. Lisa Stansbie is one of those artists and presenters who
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Tim Stiff has done a variety of open water swims in South Africa: from the longer Lighthouse to Big Bay Swim, Cadiz Freedom Swim and Nelson Bay Bell Buoy Challenge to the shorter Speedo Ice Swim Africa. A polio victim at the age of 9 months, swimming is his only effective exercise. And it seems
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Before there was a wild explosion of wild swimming, open water safety experts Dan Graham and Gabby Dickinson were exploring marine nature all over the world, both competitively and casually. Observing, learning and doing, the pair established Gone Swimming to enable others to enjoy the North Wales that they obviously do in the Anglesey, Snowdonia
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For the tens of thousands of athletes who have enjoyed the Flowers Sea Swim in the Cayman Islands during the first two decades of its existence, it comes with no surprise that Jonathan Knott for the Guardian Newspaper has rated the stunningly gorgeous warm ocean swim is one of the Top 10 Swimming Holidays in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimming has a growing number of epicenters around the world. Traditional cities like Sydney and New York, and traditional locations like Serpentine and Aquatic Park are well-known, but there are also new centers of excellence and popularity. Ireland is one of those emerging global centers. Events, training
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Two-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist Keri-Anne Payne, the cover girl of the elite open water swimming world and the odds-on favorite to win a gold medal in the Olympic marathon swimmer, is an intelligent open water swimmer who has demonstrated one of the highest navigational IQs in the sport … and she demonstrated
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