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The English Channel has its Half Century Club, a group of swimmers who have successfully crossed the English Channel past their 50th birthday. The Cook Strait, the Molokai Channel and the Catalina Channel also have their own Half Century Clubs. The Strait of Gibraltar’s Half Century Club includes 32 swimmers who have found the Fountain […]
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The English Channel has its Half Century Club, an exclusive group of bold and young-minded individuals who have successfully crossed the English Channel past their 50th birthday. The Strait of Gibraltar also has its own Half Century Club as does the Catalina Channel and the Cook Strait. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the
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The English Channel has its Half Century Club, an exclusive group of individuals who have successfully crossed the English Channel past their 50th birthday. The Strait of Gibraltar also has its own Half Century Club as does the Cook Strait and Molokai Channel. In the Pacific Ocean, the Catalina Channel has its own Half Century
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The Ederle Swim, started in 1925, is along a 17.5-mile (28K) course from New Jersey to New York. It is always a tough swim with 7 out of 11 swimmers finishing in 2007, 1 out of 13 swimmers finishing in 2008 and 3 out of 13 finishing in 2009. 2010 looks to be another tough
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Bodyguards In The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California Daniel Slosberg spoke highly of his lifeguard paddler in his Catalina Channel two-way crossing. Lifeguards around the world risk their own lives for others. They are often called into duty, occasionally paddling for their channel swimmers, never flinching when a shark looms near, ever-ready
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ron Levy took this photo of Daniel Slosberg on his 19 hour 32 minute two-way Catalina Channel crossing in 1978. “The photo shows me and one of my paddlers nearing the end of the Catalina double in the summer of 1978,” recalled Daniel. “It wasn’t until about this point
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Besides the Olympian vs. Olympian vs. world champion race that will highlight the Distance Swim Challenge in Santa Monica, California, the personable and ever-energetic Eney Jones will come down from her Rocky Mountain retreat to compete in the 12.6-mile ocean swim. Eney is a former top swimmer at the University of Florida, a 20-time finalist
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Alex Kostich, a nominee for the 2008 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, won the St. Croix Coral Reef Swim Race again. 11th times over the past 12 years – a remarkable streak for the American masters swimmer. Outside of Petar Stoychev’s ongoing 10-year lock over the professional FINA Open Water Swiming Grand
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Race Director Jim Andersen announced the 29th Possibly Annual Hawaiian Christmas Looong Distance Invitational Rough-H2O Swim. The 7K event that starts and finishes at the foot of the Diamond Head volcano in Waikiki Beach on Oahu is open to all U.S. Masters Swimming members. The conditions can range from glassy smooth to very difficult with
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The Dallas Aquatic Masters (V. Bahr, J. Christiansen, C. Eckerman, B. Patten, R. Reid and D. Swenson) finished first overall in 4 hours and 1 minute at the 7th annual 12-mile Lake Travis Relay. DAM won comfortably over the second-place Fighting Pancakes (J. Bynum, R. Esselstyn, K. Hoffman, B. Mayer, T. Robertson and D. Rogers)
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