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With interest in the Ocean’s Seven rising along with fears that the nuclear crisis in Fukushima, Japan is threatening the ecosystem of the Pacific Ocean, Open Water Source‘s Japanese-speaking staff investigated the possibility of channel swimmers getting harmed by radioactivity due to swimming in the Tsugaru Channel, one of the Oceans Seven challenges. It appears
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Rose Blossoms After 100 Years Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Deanne Draeger reported that the Rose Pitonof Centennial Swim blossomed to a grand success. The 17-mile memorial swim went from Manhattan Island to Coney Island in New York as the 100th anniversary of Rose Pitonof‘s historic swim. Rose Pitonof was a marathon swimmer from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Similar to the friendly competitive spirit between Olympic heroes Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, athletes from all over the world will gather at the base of Diamond Head volcano to race to the other side of Waikiki Bay at the 42nd annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim. Since 1970, many of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When marathon swimming has life-or-death consequences, amazing things can happen. Hisashi Koze is a 39-year-old Japanese dive master who had to swim over 30K after being stranded at sea over a 20-hour period in Malaysia. The stranded diver swam until he reach the Damai Puri Resort after swimming overnight
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Jamie Patrick completed Swimming California, a 111-mile, 31-hour charity swim down the Sacramento River from Princeton to Sacramento’s Tower Bridge. Like other ultra-marathon swimmers, Patrick‘s adventure required years of planning and physical and mental preparation. “I had a difficult night. I didn’t think I’d get through it, but it was a pretty magical swim.” Similar
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One of the world’s most renowned marathon swims is the Jarak-Šabac Marathon Swim, which is formally known as Plivački maraton Jarak-Šabac (Peace race). The event has been on the FINA calendar since 1984 and its history is an interesting as its course. The race along the river Sava is 18.88K or the distance between village
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Louise Stevenson from Christchurch, New Zealand will start her unprecedented 38K double crossing from the Fiji mainland to Beachcomber Island and back today. The two-time winner of the Rottnest Channel Swim will start at the Sofitel Fiji Hotel and attempt a two-way route that is used annually by one of the world’s top 100 open
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A Bloody Nice Swim From Manhattan To Santa Monica Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. From up close or at a distance, the Distance Swim Challenge from Manhattan Beach to Santa Monica Beach in California was an excellent event. From the Australian brotherly duo of Trent and Codie Grimsey who went 1-2 to 41-year-old
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At the recent OptimisSport Swim Forum as part of the Distance Swim Challenge, there were numerous tidbits of insightful information and interesting hints and allusions. Olympic gold medalist Ous Mellouli who has been doing two workouts a day since he has 12 years old pushing his body constantly to its aerobic threshold explained how his
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