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The 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference will be held in Long Beach, California on September 21 – 23. Registration just opened and already open water swimming coaches, swimmers, administrators, race directors from Panama, Tunisia, South Africa, Mexico, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Bangladesh, Croatia, Dominican Republic and Slovenia are already […]
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The World Swimming Majors has compiled the data on thousands of open water swimmers in 30 major marathon swims around the world. The 30 events are listed here. The data is organized and searchable by age, country, gender and location (e.g., English Channel). While the data base is not complete, it is interesting to see
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Water – 10°C and rough. Current – strong and constant. Sharks – large and plentiful. Miscellaneous – jellyfish and large ocean swells. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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The World Swimming Majors has compiled the data on thousands of open water swimmers in 30 major marathon swims around the world. The 30 events are listed here. The data is organized and searchable by age, country, gender and location (e.g., English Channel). While the data base is not complete, it is interesting to see
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Noun – Claw hand is a term used by the open water swimming community to describe an abnormal finger and hand position caused by when the core body temperature of an open water swimmer decreases significantly. As the swimmer become hypothermic, blood withdraws to the core of the body, causing the fingers to curl and
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When a swimmer runs into garbage in the ocean or lakes, they are usually startled. Garbage is always unsightly on the shorelines and seasides. And, of course, the amount of plastic in the world’s oceans are directly and negatively affect marine life of all spots. The one-day Plasticity Rio ’12 event will take place at
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Nino Fazio of Italy found a photo of the first crossing of the Strait of Messina near Sicily, Italy taken on September 26th, 1930. The swimmer in the photo was the young pioneer Giuseppe “Pippo” Dominici from Messina. Nino received the photo from Alberto Dominici, Pippo’s son. Pippo was 17 years old at the time,
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Cliff Lumsdon is up for consideration by the International Swimming Hall of Fame. The five-time world professional marathon swimming champion whose career ranged from 1949 – 1964 was honored by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1969. His track record is impressive: 1949-1954: 5 consecutive world professional marathon swimming titles Atlantic City 22
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There are a number of open water swimming luminaries who are in both the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and the International Swimming Hall of Fame (where pool swimmers, water polo players, divers, synchronized swimmers, open water swimmers and aquatic administrators and contributors are celebrated). These individuals are truly the luminaries of the open
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In a real-life sequel to the “You Are Going To Do What?!?” series, Dave Matthews and his girlfriend Natalie (both shown on left) had the following conversation regarding Dave’s swim across the Pailolo Channel in Hawaii: Dave: Yes, I would love to have you on the boat as part of my team. Natalie: Why do
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