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You Don’t Have To Stop What You Love Doing Courtesy of Guinness World Records, New York City. “You don’t have to stop what you love doing,” said Elizabeth Fry who was honored an officially amazing by the Guinness World Records during the Guinness World Records Day in New York City. International Marathon Swimming Hall of […]
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Documental Doble Cruce Canal de Catalina 2019 Courtesy of Antonio Argüelles, Catalina Channel, California. 60-year-old Antonio Argüelles recalled his 64.6 km two-way crossing of the Catalina Channel that took him 24 hours 17 minutes earlier this year in August 2019, “Open water swimming seems usually as a personal endeavor, where the swimmer is alone against
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Swim Camp Punta Del Este 2019 Courtesy of Arturo Santos, Isla de Lobos, Punta del Este, Uruguay. Arturo Santos and María N. Simmendinger started Swim Uruguay. They created a training camp and open water swim to Isla de Lobos in Punta del Este. Santos is one of the pioneers of this crossing and has crossed
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The Year That Boosted Walter Poenisch To (The Hall Of) Fame Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame and Fayette Poenisch, International Federation of Professional Ocean Swimmers and Divers. Walter Poenisch, an honor swimmer in the International Swimming Hall of Fame, was elected to become an Honor Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of
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PowerSwimming In The Open Water Courtesy of DARPAtv. Years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military, sponsored its PowerSwim Program with the aim to create highly efficient, human-powered swimming devices for use by combat
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Alex Fong Lik-sun Sets Record Around Hong Kong Courtesy of Shu Pu, HK360 Swim, Hong Kong. Olympic swimmer and 2019 Cold Half Extreme Marathon Swim winner Alex Fong Lik-sun smashed the existing circumnavigation swim record around Hong Kong en route to becoming the fourth swimmer to complete the 45 km course on November 5th. Faster
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Anthony McCarley Does Travessia do Leme ao Pontal Courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Leme to Pontal Swimming Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 60-year-old American marathon swimmer, Anthony McCarley from Pennsylvania rubbed his shoulder raw today, but had a great day while continuously swimming ahead of his peers. He was the first marathon swimmer to ratify
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Ana Marcela Cunha Named 2019 Women’s Open Water Swimmer of the Year Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine,
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Not Letting Shrimp Go To Waste Courtesy of Material District. University of Nottingham and Nile University bioengineers are studying how to use shrimp shells to make biodegradable shopping bags. The material is made from chitosan, an artificial polymer made from the organic compound chitin, which is extracted from crustacean shells. Chitosan is biodegradable polymer that
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Gaurvi Singhvi Joins Open Water Luminaries At TED Talks Courtesy of TEDx Talks, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Teenager Gaurvi Singhvi joined a number of athletes, physicians, writers and personalities who have spoken about open water swimming at TED conferences around the world: * Lewis Pugh * Diana Nyad * Maarten van der Weijden * Ori Sela
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