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Ron Collins, founder of the 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim commented on our previous story on the Greatest Fears of Open Water Swimming. Ron asked about the bottom and how many injuries are caused by open water swimmers cutting themselves on a sharp rock or on coral as they get in or out of the […]
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Swimming World Magazine wrote about the key movers and shakers within the sport of swimming in the USA. Sid Cassidy, was identified as the Open Water Swimming Guru, within USA Swimming, a description richly deserved. We have frequently referred to Sid as Mr. Open Water due to his influence and passionate behind-the-scenes work at the
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Among an extraordinarily impressive field of outstanding open water swimming heroes, the San Francisco Bay swim of Andrew Smilley from the Cayman Islands just barely out-voted the world record setting relay team of Camlough, Ireland as the 2009 Greatest Open Water Swim of the Year. Out of 9,133 votes cast by fans around the globe,
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Among an extraordinarily impressive field of outstanding open water swimming heroes, Bulgaria’s Petar Stoychev was voted as the 2009 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year out of 18,024 votes cast by fans around the globe. Petar graciously said, “Thank you very much for the wonderful news. I am very happy with this award.”
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Among an extraordinarily impressive field of outstanding open water swimming heroines, Poliana Okimoto was voted as the 2009 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year out of 21,275 votes cast by fans around the globe. Poliana graciously said, “Thanks very much. I’m very happy for this!“ “I’m very happy to win this voting. This
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In an online poll conducted by The Daily News of Open Water Swimming, 208 experienced swimmers from around the world expressed their greatest fears of the open water. Despite the hoards who are entering the open bodies of water around the world, fear still plays a factor in the minds of many. Here is what
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Thank you very much for visiting The Daily News of Open Water Swimming. We always attempt to bring an objective, interesting, positive global perspective to the world of open water swimming. During 2009, we posted nearly 1,200 news stories and traveled 149,949 airmiles to cover open water swimming events in 82 countries, from America to
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The first China to Taiwan swim was held earlier this year from Xiamen in the Fujian Province in China to Shuangkou Village in Kinmen County in Taiwan. As a symbol of cross-strait peace, the swimmers participated under the mutual goal that is translated to ‘Unifying China with One Country, Two Systems.’ The occasionally tumultuous six-decade
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The world’s largest open water mass participation swim is held in Taiwan – the 3.3K Sun Moon Lake International Swim Carnival – but Taiwan is also home to other large mass participation swims where communal enjoyment in tropical waters and post-swim fraternization with like-minded athletes – not competition – are the primary purposes of the
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Larry Scroggins of the Dolphin Club of San Francisco informed us of an educational study conducted by Thomas J. Nuckton MD, David M. Claman MD, Daniel Goldreich PhD, Frederick C. Wendt MD and John G. Nuckton MD published in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine (Volume 18, Issue 6, October 2000, Pages 703-707) entitled Hypothermia
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