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With Joseph Locke‘s attempt at swimming 30 miles (48 km) from the Golden Gate Bridge through the Red Triangle to the Great White Shark haven of the Farallon Islands in water that started at 51°F (10.5°C) and then fell to 47°F (8.3°C) as the air temperature hovered just over 41°F (5°C), the amount of cold-water […]
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Fernando Betanzos T, President of the Nadadores de Quintana Roo, has been working on developing open water swimming in the easternmost part of Mexico for 7 years. Together with Ivan Torres, he has really developed a vibrant open water swimming and triathlon community in Quintana Roo. With a beautiful piece of aquatic wonderland to work
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At the second Quebec provincial Open Water 10 km championship were held in LaSalle, Canada, female winner Eloise Labrecque finished first in 2 hours 12.59 minutes. Boy’s winner Thomas Lapointe finished in 2 hours 22.16 minutes and received the Fran Crippen Cup in honor of the late Fran Crippen who tragically passed away during a
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Bill Leach is a USA Triathlon-certified and open water swimming race director with an Olympian pedigree. He knows athletics inside and outside, as a young athlete, as a scholarship athlete in college, as an Olympian, coach and race director. His open water swims are held in Lake Mission Viejo in Mission Viejo, California. He has
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In the main event at the Bantayan Beach Games, Keith Ocampo won the 5 km in 42:20.2 with Loren Dale Echavez besting the female field in 45:23. The open water swims were held at the Sugar Beach Resort in Bantayan Island in the Philippines. Bantayan Island is in the Visayan Sea, located just west off
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The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation announced its two observer training sessions for 2012. The first one is held in Los Angeles on May 5th at the residence of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer John York in Manhattan Beach, California. The second session is held in San Diego on May 19th at the
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Aquapreneur Doug Woodring organized the first Hong Kong / San Francisco Ocean Film Festival, and explains the new festival concept below: Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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“Throughout the swim, I was calculating how much time I have, before I blank out. [As I was approaching the Farallon Islands], I could see the rocks but I was hurting, said Joseph Locke. “My arms or shoulders didn’t hurt, it was just the cold. As soon as I jumped in, I knew it was
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After an Australian protester interrupted the 158th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on the River Thames, the importance of security for the upcoming London Olympic Games was brought to the forefront. But the local authorities and the British government have been planning for protest possibilities and terrorism threats ever since their Olympic bid was being
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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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