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VIEDMA, Argentina. Eva Fabian led the 1-2 American finish FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup event in Viedma, Argentina. During a year she is taking time off from Yale University, she is making up some good air mileage and training mileage in the hopes that she makes the USA Olympic team. She improved upon last […]
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BANGLADESH. Moshiur Khandaker of Dhaka, Bangladesh, the Chief Executive of SAFE (Safety Assistance For Emergencies), announced the Brojen Das Open Water Challenge 2012, a 10K open water swim along a gorgeous course from Teknaf to the small beautiful coral island of St. Martin in Bangladesh. The Brojen Das Open Water Challenge 2012 event is named
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Certainly channel swims, solo marathon swims and relay marathons are long endurance events, but what are the longest solo, non-wetsuit, competitive open water swims in the world? In addition to the English Channel, North Channel, Catalina Channel, Molokai Channel, Tsugaru Channel, Cook Strait and Strait of Gibraltar, this is a short list of marathon competitions
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Out in the open water – especially while swimming in the middle of the Cook Strait, Molokai Channel, Catalina Channel, Rottnest Channel, Farallon Islands or anywhere in Cape Town, swimmers sometimes refer to sharks as ‘fish‘ or ‘The Man in the Gray Suit‘. There are other creative terms used around lakes, lochs and docks in
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Cancún, Mexico. The Por La Libre Cancun to Isla Mujeres race is one of the world’s top swims. The two-race event, organized by Rafa Hernández, is held between Cancún Island to the magnificent Isla Mujeres in Quintana Roo in southern Mexico. The Pirates Night was used during the 2009 and 2010 events as a guide
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The 9th annual San Francisco Ocean Film Festival is expanding to Asia and simultaneously launching in Hong Kong on March 9th – 22nd. The dual ocean film festival will feature over 40 films, short and long, that explain, explore, educate and entertain on topics ranging from wildlife, conservation and sharks to culture, adventure and adrenaline.
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Gurtej Singh Bains, one of the managers of The Longest Swim talks about Ben Lecomte‘s stage swim across the Pacific Ocean. Not only is Ben‘s 5,419-mile, 6-month swim from Choshi, Japan to San Francisco, California a physical and mental feat of unfathomable proportions, but he will perform the swim so fans can watch him do
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Saarbrücken, Germany. Hannes Vitense of Germany is pushing his athletes to reach their potential in a number of ways…all in good fun. “We began 2004 a very big project here in Germany at one of the world’s most modern training centers for swimmers and triathletes in Saarbrücken. The plan has been in the works for
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It did not take long for the formality of the Lake Tahoe Swimming Society (LTSS) to excite the marathon swimming community. Within weeks of its formation, 9 athletes have signed up to swim the length of the 21-mile lake high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains between the states of California and Nevada. “Times are
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END-WET, which stands for the Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test, is a 26-mile mixed-sports event where solo swimmers and relay swimmers pit themselves against other endurance athletes down the Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and Oslo, Minnesota. Produced by the ENDracing, the July 21st event includes kayakers, surfskiers, stand-up paddle boarders as
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