Head Up In The Freezing Cold
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When Surfers And Swimmers Talk Of Jaws
Courtesy of International Ocean Film Festival. When open water swimmers think of or talk about Jaws, they almost inevitably refer to the 1975 American movie by Steven Spielberg about a giant Great White Shark on Amity Island. When surfers think of or talk about Jaws, they almost inevitably refer to Peʻahi on the north shore
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Royalty Meet-up At Royal Brighton Yacht Club
International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famers Yuko Matsuzaki (Japan), Melissa Cunningham (Australia), Jaimie Monahan (USA) and Tamara Bruce (Australia) are shown above at yesterday’s Mentone 10 km where they supported fellow inductees Ned Denison, Sally Minty-Gravett MBE, Forrest Nelson, Trent Grimsey, Jaimie Monahan, and Chloë McCardel. Photos of Ida Elionsky and Henry Elionsky courtesy of
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Iron Swims, Pulling Over The Years By Nejib Belhedi
Courtesy of Nejib Belhedi, Djerba Island, Tunisia. Before he started another chapter in his long career of swimming across seas, oceans, and lakes, Nejib Belhedi accomplished a number of unprecedented Iron Swims, his unique form of boat pulling. Various boat pulls over the 20th and 21st centuries are posted here including numerous solo pulls by
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Minocqua Island Swim Challenge Helps Dive Team
Courtesy of Ryan Rossing, Minocqua Lake, Wisconsin. Minocqua Island Swim Challenge is a 400m and 1-mile lake swim held in Minocqua Lake in northern Oneida County, Wisconsin on June 29th. Race director Laura Fuhrman says, “The Oneida County Public Safety Dive Team has 10 divers who respond to emergencies across more than a thousand lakes
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Last To Fail, First To Win
Courtesy of Mountain Swim Series, Wellington Lake, Colorado. The Mountain Swim Series presents its unique Cliff Backyard Ultra Swim, one of the world’s premier high-altitude swims with a highly unusual format. At 2,425 meters (7,957 feet) in altitude in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, race director Geoff Hawksworth challenges swimmers to complete as many 1.5
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Big Time In Big Neva
Courtesy of St. Petersburg Winter Swimming Association and International Winter Swimming Association, St. Petersburg, Russia. 212 winter swimmers from 16 countries competed in the Neva River in St. Petersburg, Russia at the recent Big Neva Winter Swimming Cup in 0.8°C water. 200m Freestyle Women’s Top Results: 1. Tatiana Gavrilenkova (Russia) 2:56.28 2. Lotta Mäkinen (Finland)
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