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With gale warnings in effect and the east coast battening down for a big storm in Force 7-8 conditions, Claudia Rose blazed another open water swimming trail across Buzzard’s Bay in Massachusetts on the east coast of the USA. The traditionally choppy bay has apparently never been crossed until Claudia accepted the challenge presented to […]
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The all-breaststroke Catalina Channel swim that Jason Lassen did yesterday was a real throw-back swim, all the way back to 1927 when Henry Sullivan first swam the Catalina Channel in breaststroke in 22 hours and 45 minutes. Jason’s 15:59 crossing was done under similar conditions as Henry faced in 1927. “I wanted to break his
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In a follow-up to the training partners Gilles Chalandon and Jordan Waxman who had to negotiate, fight and swim their way out some serious trouble at Brighton Beach in New York (see story here, the two men came out swinging against the elements and, remarkably, they both successfully crossed the English Channel on the exact
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Open water swimmers hydrate before getting in the water. Then, they continue to hydrate while they are in the water, whether it is in training, during a race or in the middle of a solo swim. Like many young swimmers in a pool, open water swimmers often feel the need to relieve themselves. Physiologically, it
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It was reported that Jason Lassen from Oregon completed a Catalina Channel crossing doing breastroke in 15 hours and 59 minutes. The swim must first be ratified by the Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, but according to its website, it may be the first breaststroke swim. It is interesting to compare the non-freestyle records between the
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With only a 50% success rate in the Catalina Channel this season, the odds on paper for Swim22 Team to be successful in their four contiguous solo crossings is a mere 6.25% (or 50% x 50% x 50% x 50%). Swim22 is a four-way Contiguous Solo Crossing Relay across the Catalina Channel with Chris Dahowski,
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Tape is used in a variety of ways in open water swimming – fro taping down your goggles so they will not be knocked off as world 5K champion Eva Fabian does during pro and elite competition. Eva gets knocked around quite a bit throughout her races, whether it is in a short race like
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Zina Deretsky, Swimmer And Postcard Painter Courtesy of WOWSA, San Francisco Bay, California. Zina Deretsky, a science and medical illustrator by day, is also an open water swimmer and postcard painter. “I’m definitely no powerhouse swimmer. I just love to be out there, and I’m trying to extend the distances I swim bit by bit.
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Austin, Texas is the site of several competitive and unique open water swimming events from the October 2nd American Swimming Association Open Water Swimming National Collegiate Championship to the five-day Tex Robertson Highland Lakes Challenge stage race on October 20th-24th. The fall season starts off with the exciting American Swimming Association Open Water Swimming National
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Vitor Cunha of aqualoja, an innovative leader in presenting and promoting open water swimming and a supplier of aquatic, has outdone himself yet again. aqualoja has produced three outstanding – truly compelling – videos in high definition. You will not be disappointed. Guaranteed. Check the videos out here. The videos were shot in Alqueva Lake
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