Mid-30 Year Old Lydia Swims All Over
Interview courtesy of BBC World Service; photo of Great White Shark Lydia courtesy of Global Shark Tracker. Listen to the oceanic travels of Lydia here.
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Abhejali Bernardova On Track Across The Molokai Channel
Courtesy of Jeff Kozlovich, Kaiwi Channel Association, Hawaii. At 5:21 pm on Monday, Abhejali Bernardova swam through some heavy surf on the west coast of Molokai to start her Kaiwi Channel attempt. She brought along three good friends for her crew and along with boat captain Mike Twigg-Smith, co-Captain Mike Scott, and paddlers Ecar Roush
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GOAT Takes To The Open Water
Courtesy of NBC Sports. Lots of pool swimming Olympic medalists ultimately find their way to the open water. From Shane Gould and Sandy Neilson-Bell to Gary Hall Jr. and Rebecca Soni, a long list of Olympians have volunteered, organized and participated in open water swimming events. And the biggest and most famous Olympic swimmer of
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Hot Swimmers In The Ice: Ice Sevens World Rankings
Information courtesy of International Ice Swimming Association. Photos courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Mikkelvik Brygge (located at 70° 3′ 12.312” N 19° 1′ 55.2396” E) at the Norway Ice Swimming Expedition in northern Norway. The Ice Sevens is the ice swimming equivalent of the Oceans Seven. The challenge is only for the most hardened and committed
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The Next Open Water Swimming Refuge?
Courtesy of We Are The Arctic, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.
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Have Your Cake And Eat It Too on Coogee Island
Courtesy of OceanFit, Australia. The Coogee Island Challenge (Cool Water) is a 2.4 km ‘Once Around The Island’ course around Wedding Cake Island. For more information and registration, visit here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Ky Kinsela Beats Trent Grimsey Twice In One Day
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Coffs Harbour Ocean Swim at Jetty Beach, between Brisbane and Sydney in Australia, is a charity event with 150m, 300m, 600m and 2 km races across a beautiful protected harbour. At last year’s race, English Channel record holder Trent Grimsey came out of retirement to fire up his
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Ferry Weertman v. Gregorio Paltrinieri v. Jordan Wilimovsky
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is going to be a great summer with races including 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim champion Ferry Weertman of the Netherlands, 2016 Olympic 1500m champion Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy, and 2015 world champion Jordan Wilimovsky of the USA. Weertman is gearing up for another fast summer while Paltrinieri
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Kristof Rasovszky Win, Gregorio Paltrinieri Fourth In Eilat
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Setting the world record [in the 1500m freestyle] will definitely be one of the goals that I will try to achieve in the current season,” said 2016 Olympic gold medalist Gregorio Paltrinieri to FINA as he prepares for the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary this July. But
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