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MAINE, USA. The 12th annual Polar Bear Swim in Calais saw daring dippers plunged into the Passamaquoddy Bay on Friday to help raise money for the Ronald McDonald House in Bangor. More than 150 people, including 30 college students dressed in Peter Pan costumes, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Fish and […]
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Andrew Martens of RC Helicam captured the final move that Keri-Anne Payne made over the last 50 meters to win the 2012 aQuelle Midmar Mile this weekend. Andrew’s helicam is a remote controlled quadcopter that takes aerial HD action video footage. The helicam hovered right over the swimmers and took great footage – one of
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Besides the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, there are two other marathon swims in Spain: La Batalla De Rande A Nado and the Ultramarató de l’Ebre 30830 Swim Marathon. La Batalla De Rande A Nado is a 27K (16.7 mile) wetsuit swim on July 8th between the Cies Islands, at the mouth of
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Jose Diaz introduces the Travesía Internacional Xuquer-Bahia de Cullera that began in 1926 and will next be held on June 30th and July 1st. Jose explains the history of the 10K International Cruise Cullera Xuquer-Bay here. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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The Gar Woods Polar Bear Swim always draw a colorful, eclectic crowd to its high-altitude, low-temperature swim. At an altitude of 6,229 feet (meters) of Lake Tahoe, the water temperature at 39°C (4°C) throughout the 250-yard swim feels especially cool. With a cut-off time of 20 minutes, a crowd gathers to see who is the
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2008 Olympian Chad Ho took his traditional position on the left side of the starting line-up on the 39th annual
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Keri-Anne Payne and Ashley Twichell went stroke-for-stroke, literally, for 1,600 meters. After a crazy start on the shore of the Midmar Dam, they both shot out like a canon. “We occasionally bumped into each other,” recalled 22-year-old Ashley who was visiting South Africa for the first time to compete in the world-famous aQuellé Midmar Mile.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad is back at it. Tom Sims writes about Diana’s planned fourth attempt of the Florida Strait from Cuba to Florida in the New York Times (see here). The distance of 103 miles (168K) is not the primary obstacle. Sharks, she can handle and has the right people
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David Corney, race director of the Rottnest Channel Swimming Association, announced two major changes in the Rottnest Channel Swim, one of the world’s top 100 open water swims and its largest relay. In a nod to safety in the marathon swimming world, the Rottnest Channel Swim will (1) announce all shark sightings during the race,
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“To give you a feeling for the size of the Midmar Mile, typically we pull out about 600 people,” said Byron Dillon who has volunteered and participated in 30 of the 39 Midmar Mile events in Pietermaritzburg, the capital of the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The scale of the event is almost unimaginable
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