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Open Water Source produces a weekly newsletter with eclectic and esoteric open water swimming information. The newsletter describes highlights from around the world, a historical perspective of the sport, technical information, workout tips, commentary, links to The Daily News of Open Water Swimming and videos, the Website of the Week and the Open Water Swimming […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The New Zealand Herald reported that Pamela Dickson, a 56-year-old grandmother of 10, became the oldest person to swim the length of Lake Taupo, the biggest lake in New Zealand. The 40.2K crossing from Waihi Bay to the Taupo Yacht Club took her 13 hours and 56 minutes on
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The five intrepid South Africans – Ryan Stramrood (37), Kieron Palframan (36), Toks Viviers (47), Ram Barkai (53) and Andrew Chin (41) – did it again, successfully completing their second of three Patagonia swims. Now on to Cape Horn. The men successfully crossed the icy and remote Beagle Channel from Chile to Argentina at the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The vastly and eclectically talented Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer wrote a fictional sci-fi novel where the main character is an open water swimmer. “The first scene in the sci-fi lite adventure novel introduces an open water swimmer with his fiancée. The book is not about swimming, but the main characters
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Craig Lord reported that FINA has renamed its the 10K circuit as the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2011/Memorial Fran Crippen. The 2011 season will resume in April with the Santos, Brazil race where several national federations will select their athletes for the 2011 World Championships in July. Cornel Marculescu told the Swim News,
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Waterlife is a very creative website that describes the Great Lakes in Canada and America that serve not only as one of the world’s greatest supply of fresh drinking water for millions of Canadians and Americans, but also of the venues that are used by open water swimmers everywhere from Lake Ontario to Lake Michigan
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The Channel Swimming Association annually presents numerous trophies and awards to its successful soloists and relay members. Rebecca Lewis (photo on right) received four different awards by the Channel Swimming Association for her exploits in the 2010 English Channel season: C.S.A. Gold Medal (Fastest Swim of the Year) – Rebecca Lewis, 8:35C.S.A. Centenary Trophy (Fastest
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Shane Gould, the great Australian Olympic champion, is organizing the Devil of A Swim in Bicheno, Tasmania on March 20th. “I am hoping people will visit Tasmania to take part in this adventure swim in a wildish place when the water is warmest. The unique open water swim caters to competitive and social swimmers.” “The
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The Lost Sea is America’s largest underground lake, part of the extensive Craighead Caverns deep inside a mountain in East Tennessee. The 4+ acre lake is a Registered National Natural Landmark and site of a large collection of rare anthodites, known as Cave Flowers, with boats and tours. If there were open water swimming there,
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The British have their UK Cold Water Swimming Championships; the Finish organize relays; the Czechs train and compete year-round. The Estonians do it. The South Africans do it up at high altitude (1260 meters) and the Americans enjoy it from the shores of New York and Boston to high up in the western mountains where
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