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The Night Train Swimmers called off their Farallons Island relay attempt ten miles from shore when it was obvious the 20-foot seas were too rough for the safety of the team. A video of the rough seas is shown here – and the video was taken before the worse was about to hit the 43-foot […]
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U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS) and Pacific Masters Swimming are sponsoring the Open Water Swimming Conference in San Francisco this weekend where walk-up, same-day registrations are available. USMS Executive Director Rob Butcher explains, “The conference is an educational and resource platform for open water event directors. The majority of the speakers and panelists are associated with
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Penny Palfrey completed her record-breaking Molokai Channel swim earlier this week. It was a beautiful, courageous and deeply blue swim, punctuated by breaching dolphins, pods of dolphins, surprisingly no Portuguese Man-o-War, winds running counter to the currents, expert kayaking by Jeff Kozolvich and Cody Dickson, and spot-on piloting by Jim Dickson. Copyright © 2011 by Open
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15 kilometers off the coast of eastern Japan, 60-year-old Hiromitsu Arakawa was found on the top of his roof waving frantically for help after two days on the Pacific Ocean. He was found by a military destroyer heading to help the people of Fukushima Prefecture. Arakawa was spotted by a crew member of the destroyer
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Acclaimed painter and open water swimmer Craig Baskin created the painting “Port-au-Prince HOPE” after the large earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010. The painting was auctioned at the Save The Children Gala to help support an emergency medical team from California who traveled to and treated thousands of people in Haiti. Generous art collectors purchased
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Richard Broer reported with great sorrow that 1968 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Jan van Scheijndel of The Netherlands passed away at the age of 73 on March 3rd. “He was truly a great man,” said Dale Petranech, Honorary Secretary of the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Richard described Jan, who was the
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Japan has 108 active volcanoes and experiences destructive earthquakes and tsunamis several times each century. During these times, the strong character of the Japanese people shines. They help each other, they reach out, they form even closer bonds with their neighbors and countrymen as they struggle in their recovery time and time again. After the 8.9-magnitude
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Julieta Núñez and Ricardo ‘Cate’ López, both from Santiago, Chile, began their two-year preparation for their Antarctica swim with research, commitment and expert assistance. They boostered their training by doing several swims that culiminated in their 2-year mission to do a 1-mile swim in Antarctica. Their preparation for Antarctica included swims across the Chacao Channel
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Extreme swimmers Ram Barkai and Andrew Chin (shown on left) first whet their open water swimming appetite on the Orange River Challenge. Characteristically, they did not simply dip their toes in the open water – then went full bore to the extreme. Their goal: to swim down the Orange River with a team of swimmers and cover a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Penny Palfrey spent the night before her Molokai Channel swim in an evacuation center on Molokai due to the tsunami warnings that were into effect throughout the state of Hawaii due to the devastating earthquakes in Japan. At 10:30 pm the night before her planned swim, Penny and her
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