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Nadine Bennett Does A Thomas Across Lake Willoughby

Courtesy of Phil White. Photos courtesy of Kathleen Marcil. Doing a Thomas – or an unassisted, continuous four-way crossing of any open body of water – is never easy and always takes a significant amount of planning, with a splash of good luck. Phil White, escort pilots Gary Coburn and Karina Palmorino, crew members Denise Herman  and Christine Herman, and escort kayaker and photographer Kathleene Marcil planned

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Swimming Around St. Helena, One of the Most Remote Islands in the World

Howard James of Open Water Africa announced a unique 45 km marathon swim around one of the most remote islands in the world. The swim window of the St Helena Island Ultra Marathon Swim between March and April, a circumnavigation swim around Saint Helena Island, United Kingdom’s second-oldest overseas territory. James said, “Experienced open water swimmers are invited on

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Between Jellyfish and Fears: My Journey Across The North Channel

By Joel Matos Ortíz. Joel Matos Ortíz (37, Puerto Rico, MSF bio here, @joelmatosultra) has crossed the English Channel, the Cook Strait, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Catalina Channel, and a 47 hour 6 minute 92 km crossing from the British Virgin Islands to his native Puerto Rico in 2019. But it was his cold

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Hank Wise, Straight As An Arrow, Creates his 8th Cosmic Connection across the Catalina Channel

When Hank WIse (57, USA, MSF bio here) climbed up the nearly vertical face of Arrow Point on the east end of Santa Catalina Island, he had taken a nearly straight line from Terranea Cover on the Palos Verdes Peninsula on the Southern California mainland to Santa Catalina Island [see here]. It was his eighth career crossing

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Matthew Moseley Reflecting On Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans

Matthew Moseley (58, USA, MSF bio here, @matthew.l.moseley) regularly does unprecedented swims – down rivers, across lakes, in seas) to support marine environmentalism (see video below). Most recently this June, he swam 27.3 km on the Colorado River from the Moab Boat Ramp to Potash Point in 4 hours 30 minutes, another pioneering swim for

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