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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Colin Hill, head of the Great Swim and guest speaker at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference, took part in the Byron Swim Festival, a 5K swim from Asia to Europe. Colin placed first in 1 hour and 27 minutes. He had a great review of the event, “It was a tough swim. The tides […]
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Taraneh Hashemi is a 56-year-old swimming coach in Tehran, Iran with a very simple open water swimming goal. “I would like to set a record by being the first female Iranian to swim more than 3000 meters in the open water. I believe I can swim much longer, almost up to 6K and I am
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The Swim Sea of Cortez is only a few weeks away. The 182K world record relay attempt across the Sea of Cortez in Mexico is ready to go announce Vito Bialla. “Our teams have been training very hard to turn this dream in to a reality. To make sure, I swam the Straights of Gibraltar,
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The 5K Thingvallasund Swim starts at midnight on July 16th at the Lake Thingvellir in the Lake National Park in Iceland Lake Thingvellir is the largest natural lake in Iceland. Despite the 11°C temperature, wetsuits are not allowed. Midnight swimming in 11°C in Iceland…we’d like it a lot. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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Nathaniel Waring swam a little over 10 miles (17K) from Tahiti to its sister island of Moorea in 4 hours and 57 minutes under near ideal conditions, breaking the existing record of Cédric Wane by 1 hour and 20 minutes set last year. Swimming in out-of-the-way places is nothing new for the travel executive who
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Members of the Black-ice Open Water Swimming Club, based in Black Rock, Australia (outside of Melbourne), are one tough, dedicated group of open water swimmers. To become an official member of the Black Rock Icebergers (Black-Ice), a swimmers is required to complete a 3K circuit of the long course at Brighton Baths during winter when
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Tiger sharks, whose usual diet consists of fish, seals, birds, smaller sharks, squid and turtles, do not eat lionfish. They certainly do not look tasty. Divers and fishermen are urged to be extremely cautious and avoid contact with the lionfish’s venomous spikes for their stings are very painful. Fortunately, lionfish are not aggressive toward humans
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An all-female team of swimmers from the Serpentine Swimming Club in London will swim 23 miles (37K) across the famous Loch Ness in Scotland this August. The charity relay is a means to raise funds for the Afghan Mother and Child Rescue. Anne MacAlpine-Leny, captain of the team of six swimmers explains, “My biggest reason
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Swimmer Guy tries to give Tri Girl some standard open water swimming advice. In response, Tri Girl gives Swimmer Guy many reasons why she is already prepared to swim well and why triathletes are cooler than open water swimmers. Funny. Entertaining. Twice over. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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Gerry Rodrigues, the founder and organizer of Tower 26 club who runs highly specific open water swimming workouts for triathletes in Santa Monica, California, was tested using the highly sophisticated SwiMetrics. The test was specifically to understand his open water dolphining technique. Gerry’s onshore ocean starts have been equated with Michael Phelps’ wall turns in
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