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The 9th Annual San Francisco Ocean Film Festival showcases cinemaquatics at its finest. Skyler Thomas’ 2-minute film about how the ecosystem in South Africa went haywire after the near removal of the Great White Shark kicked off the festival. Julian Watson followed with a 54-minute film on Surfing and Sharks where he documents that 1 […]
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Google Play lists Open Water Swimming, 263 pages of text, photos and graphs of ocean racing, lake swims, river exploits, training, tactics and techniques among a global potpourri of music, books, movies, apps, and games in one place. Discover, buy and share online and virtually. The cover shows 2008 Beijing Olympic champion Maarten van der
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Seth Gordin makes an excellent point about conflict. The prolific author and renowned marketer writes, “Everything we do that’s important is the result of conflict. Not a conflict between us and the world–a conflict between us and ourselves. It’s brain chemistry. We don’t have one mind, we have competing interests, all duking it out.” While
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Andrea Prayer of Italy has been approved by the FINA Bureau as acting FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee Honorary Secretary to replace Flavio Bomio. With the 2012 London Olympics qualifier in Portugal, the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Hyde Park, and the new World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Canada looming, Prayer steps
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The FINA Bureau made an important change to the rules and regulations of the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix. The change was made to Point 11.2 Overall Prizes. The change does not require the athletes to finish a minimum of four races in the annual circuit, but merely to compete in them. The wording
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Ralph West, Russell Tucker, Greg Tucker, JC van Wyk, Brenton Williams and Sanmarie Woithe will embark on setting a South African marathon swimming relay record of 316K (196.3 miles) at the Marina Martinique in Jeffrey’s Bay, South Africa. The sextet will swim non-stop from 8 am on March 21st until 12 noon on March 25th,
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What does it look like on a calm day out swimming from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands, 30 miles to the west? Over the course of 16 hours 29 minutes, Kim Chambers, Lynn Kubasek, Laura Vartain Horn, Cathy Delneo, Melissa King and Patti Bauernfeind are showcased against the grey, wet, foreboding
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“There are very few things in the world left undone by man.” “There’s a reason it hasn’t been done. It won’t be easy; nothing of consequence ever is. The only way to end on top is to start at the bottom.” Neal Mueller, Paul Ridley, Collin West and Scott Mortensen made these observations as they
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The NBC Nightly News broadcast coverage of Jedd Wolchok, MD, PhD who heads up the Swim Across America Laboratory at the world-renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Wolchok, an oncologist who specializes in the treatment of melanoma, led the effort at the Swim Across America Lab to develop ipilumumab, the first
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LA Tri Club is back at it again with an innovative event to raise money for those who have yet learned to swim. One of the largest multi-sport clubs in the world is organizing the second annual Coast 2 Coast Swim Challenge on May 20th. Their challenge: everyone collectively swims 2,462 miles in one day
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