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Ned Denison tells this story of his fellow Irish marathon swimmer who has now landed in Honolulu to get ready to attempt the 26-mile Molokai Channel, just days after completing the Catalina Channel: “It seems that Stephen Redmond had settled on his line to get around the Fastnet Rock [the treacherous most southerly point in […]
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Swimming World Magazine presents a special edition of The Morning Swim Show that features a conversation with Claire Crippen who spoke about her brother Fran Crippen one year after his untimely death in Dubai during a FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race. Claire talks about Fran’s personality, his enthusiasm for the sport and how
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On the one-year anniversary of Fran Crippen’s death in Dubai, we bow our heads in respect and awe of Fran’s life and legacy and of his family. It is with obvious reason that the Crippen Family is rightly called the First Family of Swimming in the United States. Thinking about what Fran had been lobbying
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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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Skip Storch attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida on June 2-3, 1993. With great fanfare and great expense, Skip started north from Cuba to his goal of Florida. “During the night, I was exposed to millions of jellyfish. The cage pushed most jellyfish aside, but the exception were the 3-foot orange jellyfish that exploded
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44-year-old Christie Leet and Chris Palfrey became the first people to successfully swim between one of the Whitsunday group of islands, off the coast of Queensland, and the Australian mainland. “Leaving from Roma point, the southern tip of South Molle, we swam in a north west direction up the. Molle Channel and then around pioneer
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Dr. Peter Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles and the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, explains in his fascinating book, American Mania. When More Is
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“My philosophy is, you have to have the right screw loose to be a good endurance athlete. You look at the best ones, they’re crazy,” described Alex Meyer to the New York Times about marathon swimmers. “It was very difficult. No one has ever been stupid enough to attempt this before,” recalled David Yudovin, an
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Aloha can mean hello and good-bye in the Hawaiian language. Darren Miller bid good-bye to Molokai Island this morning, swam 12 hours 12 minutes across the Kaiwi Channel (Moloka’i Channel) under reasonably good conditions (relatively speaking), and said hello to Oahu Island this Friday evening. The channel crossing was his third successful leg of the
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