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Michelle and Bruckner Chase are the visionaries and drivers behind the OC Swim Club where OC stands from both Ocean City and Ocean Conscious. In innovative and environmentally-conscious ways, Michelle and Bruckner are striving to improve the waterways of the world. This summer, in collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium, they will promote the Seafood […]
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Weekend Warriors presents three unique events in the Queensland Ocean Swim Series. The first event is today in Tangalooma – Moreton Island in Queensland: the 2.4K Wrecked Tangalooma Ocean Swim, a calm water ocean swim over the famous Tangalooma Sunken Wrecks. The second event is the Cooly Classic, a 0.5K and 2.4K swim on April
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One of the world’s top open water swimming e-newsletters, from the NYC Swim, published a great article on Leticia Flores Hernandez, a fast Mexican masters swimmer who combines family travel with her open water swimming schedule. In 2010, Flores with her husband Arndt and two children will travel from their home in Mexico City to
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Numerous swimmers will participate in the 4th annual International Masters Swimming Cup in Cuba to compete in some incredibly blue, blue, blue waters. The International Masters Swimming Cup is held between March 25-28 at Varadero Beach, 90 miles east of Havana (see map below). Varadero Beach is a 36-kilometer stretch of powdery white sand, bordered
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One of the greatest swimmers of all time, Greta Andersen, will speak at the 2010 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on June 5th. If you want to hear about her solo swims in Hawaii, her head-to-head races in Mexico against the world’s top men, her 1948 Olympic gold and silver medal
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After the USA Swimming National 5K Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, there will be an Open Water Pursuit race. Why is it called Open Water Pursuit? For four primary reasons: (1) swimmers swimming together in a pack is not a relay in the traditional sense,(2) long-track speed skating has made this pursuit concept
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We had the pleasure of receiving the first issue of the new FINA Aquatics World Magazine. We found it to be an absolutely outstanding magazine that covers open water swimming, pool swimming, water polo, synchronized swimming and diving in a colorful, informative, entertaining way. The photography was beautiful and compelling. The stories about the world-class
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This is a really difficult question: What is harder? The 1-mile swim across a glacial lake on Mount Everest by Lewis Pugh or the 30-mile swim among Great White Sharks from the Farallons Islands to Aquatic Park in San Francisco by Karen Rogers? While Pugh has to balance an
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Elizabeth Fry, one of the 35 people in the world who have completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming and the record-holder for the reverse-circumnavigation of New York City (11 hour and 48 minutes), announced the applications are available for the 23rd Annual St. Vincent’s SWIM Across the Sound Marathon on August 7th. The
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