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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Poliana Okimoto is one of the living legends of open water swimming, who has always been a fan favourite. World champion and Olympic bronze medallist Brazilian star aims at achieving some more good results at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Balatonfüred. “I didn’t like open water swimming. I […]
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Justin Moser, founder and race director for the Brent Rice Memorial Swim of the Sound in Des Moines, Washington. The Brent Rice Memorial Swim of the Sound was started in 2006 by 17 year old Justin Moser, who wanted to honor his friend and mentor Brent Rice who passed away just over four years ago
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. I saw a couple of nurse sharks about halfway through the swim that’s all. We’ve been to Eleuthera about a dozen times since 2006 and have seen quite a few sharks there…. nurse, reef, lemon, hammerhead and bulls. The water is so clear that it’s usually from a distance
Aisling Beacom from Wicklow Town is one of 126 athletes who will represent Ireland at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games. Aisling will participate in the aquatics competition and is currently busy training and preparing for the Games. This isn’t the first time that Aisling has represented Ireland on the international stage. Through Special
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When swimmers cross a channel or participate in an ocean swim, they tend to most vividly remember the extremes of their swims. That is, the swimmers wax poetically about their swims over the tranquil beauty of a flat ocean especially when the sun sets or sun rises and their challenges across the roughest, toughest turbulence
Name: Rondi Davies Age:40 Citizenship: Australian/ United States When I started swimming: I have been swimming since I was a toddler, but I started swimming competitively at age 7. I grew up in the tropics (Papua New Guinea). Swimming was a way of life. Major pool events: I moved to Australia when I was 11
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Glenn R. Hintze, the former public relations coordinator of Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and Manhattan Island Foundation between 1995-2002, together with his successor Faith Armonaitis, provided this historical overview of the first 25 years of the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim entitled Doing Swimmingly: “It all started as a tribute from a father to his son.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On the hunt. The RV Hesperides tows along a net designed to skim the ocean surface, catching floating plastic particles (inset). A recent study found that 99% of plastic in the ocean is unaccounted for. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “We can’t account for 99%
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