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One of the world’s absolutely best open water swims, the Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean, the organizers provide numerous safety procedures and policies that are world class based on their decades of successful, safe swimming. One of their safety issues relates to the protection of swimmers in the water. The Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean […]
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The Aussies won the Maui Channel Swim for the fifth straight time by tackling the inter-island course between Lanai and Maui in a non-traditional way. From all accounts, the inter-island race from Lanai to Kaanapali, Maui is 9.6 miles of hard swimming. While Peter Thiel captained the Tattersalls Australian Masters team to its fifth straight
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After 3 months of launch, nearly 5,000 postings have been added to Openwaterpedia. The online reference and research tool for the open water swimming community has entries posted in English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Japanese. Any language can be inputted, as well as photos, videos and hyperlinks. Anyone can enter or amend information in
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The Mexican American Unity Swim was a non-stop 108 nautical mile 6-person relay in Lake Powell, Arizona, U.S.A. over a three-day period. The swimmers used green and red-colored lights on their swim caps when swimming at night. In the pitch blackness in the lake near the Grand Canyon, two swimmers are shown in midst of
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Dimitris Kakalikas reported that Mauro Sebastiano Nappa of Italy won the 23rd annual 30K Open Water Swimming Marathon Kalamata-Koroni sponsored by the Nautical Club of Kalamata «POSEIDON» (ΝΑΥΤΙΚΟΣ ΟΜΙΛΟΣ ΚΑΛΑΜΑΤΑΣ «Ο ΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝ») in the Messinian Gulf from Kalamata to Koroni, Greece. Mauro was followed by Dimitrios Archakis (7:58) and Panos Mpadouvanis (8:13) while two other
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In a thought-provoking article here on Paralympic athletes, Mike McNamee, Professor of Applied Ethics at Swansea University Wales, talked about the ethical challenges and opportunities that the International Paralympic Committee faces. Read his comments here that included this question: “If there were more people like…Natalie du Toit, who [has] participated at an elite level in
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Reports from yesterday’s Maui Channel Swim from the Oak Streakers tell of a very unfortunate accident where a boater, passing through swimmers towards the end of the 9.6-mile race, hit John Caughlin. The 41-year-old swimmer from Half Moon Bay (California) who does a number of swims in California and Hawaii had been training all year
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Open water swimmers along the Southern California coast were on the lookout for sharks in San Diego and huge shorebreak near Los Angeles over the last few days. We half imagined Ireland’s marathon swimmer/surfer Donal Buckley was seen enjoying both of his activities out here sunny California. The wave action near the coast reminded us
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Dr. Gail Grabowsky, a fast ocean swimmer, remarkable overall athlete, author and a renowned biologist from Hawaii, has done dozens of Waikiki Roughwater Swims during her career – and swum the Waikiki Roughwater Swim course hundreds of times throughout various times of the day. With the Waikiki Roughwater Swim coming up on Labor Day Monday,
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