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Swimsuit manufacturer FINIS has a special offer supporting next month’s Pan American Master’s swimming championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For a limited time, masters open water swimmers can pick up one of FINIS’s Velo technical swimsuit at a very special price for open water swimming competitors. Visit the FINIS web store and use code […]
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Michelle Macy, a renowned cold-water swimmer with records sprinkled across the Pacific Ocean who once failed to cross the Molokai Channel, went back to her warm-water haunt and successfully crossed from Molokai to Oahu, landing this morning on Sandy Beach on the eastern shores of Oahu. Traffic seems to be building up on the Molokai
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“The key was the start in the morning, as I knew this would be a long journey,” recalled Darren Miller of his 12 hour 12 minute world record swim in the Molokai Channel. “This swim was just so demanding, psychologically. There were so many logistical problems we had to overcome – tides, swells, win –
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Jose Diaz of Nadandolibre writes colorfully about the 15K Bocaina Swim in the Canary Islands. The swim is from Lanzarote to Fuerteventura. The 15K Travesia la Bocaina is organized by Oliver Acuña and the Club Triatlón Vulcano. The next swim is October 20th 2012. Courtesy of Jose Diaz; photo of Javier Sanz at Club Natación
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Ben Lecomte completed a cross-Atlantic swim in 1998 and then appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show where he announced a cross-Pacific Ocean swim (see below). 14 years after that announcement on Oprah’s TV show, Benoit is finally heading back to realize his dream…and with Oprah’s newly found interest in swimming, she may be covering more
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A marine hunt has been called in Western Australia for a Great White shark that killed George Wainwright from Texas who was diving off Rottnest Island. George, swimmer Bryn Martin and body boarder Kyle Burden have been killed by sharks along Australia’s long western coast recently. Fisheries Minister Norman Moore issued an order to kill
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The highly respected and popular Sid Cassidy returned to the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee (FINA TOWSC) upon the approval of Cornel Marculescu. Sid Cassidy rejoins his colleagues on FINA TOWSC including Ronnie Wong (Chairman), Jorge Delgado, Flavio Bomio, Dr. Khwaja Aziz, Valerijus Belovas, Tomas Haces German, Samuel Greetham, Zouheir El Moufti, Andrea Prayer,
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No doubt about it, there is no better time to be an open water swimmer in America than now. With President Obama being a decent body surfer and open water swimmer (see here and here), along with professional athletes like Tim Duncan and television commentators like Marcellus Willey being comfortable in the open water, the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Japan to Taiwan Ocean Swim Challenge (>日台黒潮泳断チャレンジ) was a 6-person, non-stop relay of 150 kilometers from Okinawa, Japan to Suou, Taiwan in September. The 6 swimmers braved the strong Kuroshio current, sharks, jellyfish and rough conditions for over 52 hours to successfully complete this unprecedented swim. The swimmers
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Black In The Day Of Marathon Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Black Sea. In 1890, a 59 km open water swim was held between the cities of Batumi and Poti in Georgia along the Black Sea. 18th century map shows the area around Batumi and the modern-day coastline along the Black Sea. Copyright © 2008 –
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