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Hank Wise’s Swim From Above Hank’s 7th Catalina Channel Swim 10.14.18 courtesy of Tim English from Jeb’s Beach House. Hank Wise broke two Catalina Channel records on October 14th with his latest 7 hour 55 minute crossing: most number of crossings by an individual and men’s Catalina-to-mainland speed record The newly crowned King of the […]
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Courtesy of Martha Wood, Tallinn, Estonia. Martha Wood gave a Tuck Talk at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth reunions in October. Business school students at Dartmouth University gather to hear stories and advice from fellow students and alumni who studied at Tuck, coming from different paths. Tuck Talks is a series that aims
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Laje de Santos, São Paolo, Brazil. Adriano Passini‘s latest marathon swim from Laje de Santos in São Paolo, Brazil was the subject of a Globo TV program. On September 24th, English Channel swimming author Passini pioneered a swim of 23.4 nautical mile from Laje de Santos to the mainland in Santos, Brazil
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Courtesy of TED, Berkeley, California.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Kangsha River in Bangladesh. Kshitindra Chandra Baisya once swam for 108 hours at the age of 24 and for 74 km at the age of 28. His swimming career took a lower priority over the next 4 decades as he worked in civil aviation. Last year, the re-energized 66-year-old ANS consultant completed
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Courtesy of Patrick Winkler, Copacabana Beach, Brazil. Patrick Winkler of the large Rei do Marr series has arranged for 3 top Brazilian duos (Olympians Ana Marcela Cunha and Allan do Carmo, Viviane Jungblut and Victor Colonese, and pool Olympians Gabriela Roncato and Leonardo de Deus) and an Argentina Olympic team of Cecilia Biagioli and Guillermo
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Courtesy of Lucky Meisenheimer, Lake Cane, Orlando, Florida. Lucky Meisenheimer described the 1.5 km Rowdy and Lucky’s Lake Swim across Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida, “It was a great day and a great race. The volunteers were awesome, and there were so many I am afraid to thank individually as I would forget someone, but
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Catalina Channel, California. Hank Wise broke two Catalina Channel records this morning in Southern California. With his 7 hour 55 minute crossing, the Long Beach native set the record for the most number of crossings by an individual and the men’s Catalina-to-mainland speed record. The newly crowned King of the Catalina Channel
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Courtesy of Bruckner Chase and Wallace J. Nichols. For more information, visit here.
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Cork, Ireland. It is time to tell a few disturbing stories about the last two events in Cork, Ireland, one of the epicenters of open water swimming in the world. There are too many safety issues to summarize – so read to take them all in. The purpose of this story
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