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Courtesy of WOWSA, Pacific Ocean. Day 38 on The Swim, Ben Lecomte‘s 8,721 km transoceanic stage swim across the Pacific Ocean was a short swim session because escort kayaker and environmental engineer María Cristi had trouble to keep up with Lecomte while battling against the waves. Lecomte wrote, “This morning the wind and waves were […]
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Courtesy of Phil White, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. On Wednesday, July 18, 2018, seven marathon open water swimmers will gather to swim the 25-mile length of Lake Memphremagog, between Newport, Vermont, USA and Magog, Quebec, Canada. In Search of Memphre is a 40.2 km (25-mile) cross-border marathon swim across Lake Memphremagog. Phil White started the event
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Courtesy of Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, Catalina Channel, California. At the 2012 Catalina Channel Swimming Federation banquet, Dr. Penny Lee Dean talked about a number of luminaries from the Catalina Channel history. Daisy Murchie was one of the early pioneers of ocean swimming in Southern California. “She swam from Avalon to Long Beach [an approximate
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Santa Catalina Channel, Southern California. Toni Enderli is going for his fourth Oceans Seven channel on a late night next week. Follow him on his Catalina Channel crossing starting at 11:30 pm Los Angeles time on Monday, July 16th here. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Brilliant Studios and Ben Stubenberg, Grace Bay, Turks & Caicos. Flat clear turquoise water on Grace Bay made for perfect conditions at the 9th annual Turks & Caicos “Race for the Conch” Eco-SeaSwim. More than 100 swimmers turned out for the international open water swim competition in front of Rickie’s Flamingo Cafe that
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Courtesy of Jean-François Roussy, World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation. During the summers of 1991 and 1992, a group of close friends from Germany, Australia, USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, and Argentina traveled the world to compete in professional marathon swims in Canada, Argentina, Italy and elsewhere. provided a photo of the group: Christof Wandratsch, David O’Brien,
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Cork, Ireland. Another Cork Distance Week is in the books. The most challenging, most difficult, longest marathon and channel and cold water swimming preparation camp designed by International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Administrator Ned Denison saw dozens of accomplished and aspiring swimmers push themselves to their limits in Sandycove
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Courtesy of Kate Webber, Farallons Island, California. Kate Webber announced that her documentary film, Kim Swims, will be distributed worldwide by independent film distributor, Gravitas Ventures. Webber explains, “The film’s first wave of release is set for select worldwide VOD platforms starting October 2nd, 2018 — iTunes, Vimeo, Google Play, Vudu, Xbox, and Amazon. Customers
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