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A proven marathon swimmer completing the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim back in 1988, Pete Tarnapoll came back into the swim of things on behalf of his wife Kim who is in the fight of her life against multiple myeloma. Since beginning his workouts with a modest 500 meters straight this April, Pete built up to […]
Pete Tarnapoll, Giving 100% To Swim For Kim Read More »
With the summer season over in the Northern Hemisphere and the water still cool in the Southern Hemisphere, open water swimmers are facing cool waters in many places around the world. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming is running a poll on how the global swimming community defines ‘cold’. Individuals can vote on how
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The Real Federación Española de Natación (Royal Spanish Swimming Federation) presented Interational Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee Montserrat Treserras Deo with its first Mujer y Agua Award. The ‘Women & Water’ Award was given to Montserrat for being such a pioneer in the sport of open water swimming in Spain where her career has
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The Ventura Deep Six Relay, a team of six tough California masters swimmers, set a new world record for a non-stop six-person relay (202 miles or 325 km in 101 hours 39 minutes) this week in the Pacific. Not only did the 6 California men topple the distance set by two separate relays from Lake
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The official distance of a marathon swim or channel crossing is based on the concept of the straight-line tangent distance.
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The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation provided a timely explanation for the colder waters that open water swimmers have been experiencing this season in the Pacific Ocean. The Federation explained the scientific reasons for the colder waters: a Pacific Decadal Oscillation that is currently in a long-term cooling phase. The Oscillation is a naturally occuring fluctuation
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Open water swimmers know the beauty of swimming at sunrise and at sunset when the colors of the sky turn magical and majestic. For a select few who get in the water at night for various reasons: adventure, training for a channel swim or for an actual channel swim, are often enthralled by the beauty
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad & Tobago announced that the annual Maracas Open Water Classic, one of the world’s top 100 open water swims, will be televised on TV6 this Friday morning. The program starts at 6:00 am with the swimming to be featured around 7:30 am. Copyright
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Halfway through the FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup season with races in Santos (Brazil), Viedma (Argentina), Setubal (Portugal), Lac St-Jean (Canada) completed and four more races to go in Shantou (China), Hong Kong, Cancun (Mexico) and Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil is leading in the point rankings. Can the young
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Halfway through the FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup season with races in Santos (Brazil), Viedma (Argentina), Setubal (Portugal), Lac St-Jean (Canada) completed and four more races to go in Shantou (China), Hong Kong, Cancun (Mexico) and Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), Chad Ho of South Africa is leading in the point ranking. Can the young