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Courtesy of Marilyn Morgan, Consuming Cultures. Marilyn Morgan wrote another fascinating, historical overview about women’s swimwear and swimming opportunities in her blog Consuming Cultures. Read about Drowning in Culture: Gender, Swimming & Health In The 20th Century here. Photo from New York, circa August 1906 by G. C. Hovey, Mid Manhattan Picture Collection, Library of […]
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Mexico Pelagico from Pelagic Life.Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rene Martínez Saenz is a 35-year-old Mexican pool and open water swimmer, currently training for a 20.2-mile crossing of the Catalina Channel in 2017 and a crossing of the English Channel in 2018. He collaborates with Pelagic Life, a Mexican NGO dedicated to shark conservation,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kristian O’Donovan of Ireland completed a solo Tampa Bay Marathon Swim on March 18th in 11 hours 32 minutes. John Batchelder and Mighty Mermaids are next up, swimming across Tampa Bay on April 1st. The rest of the swimmers will compete in the 19th Annual 24 Mile Tampa Bay
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Courtesy of XPRIZE, Culver City, California. Matt Mulrennan, Manager of the XPRIZE Ocean Initiative, announced XPRIZE‘s Big Ocean Button Challenge. The Big Ocean Button Challenge is the title of this US$100,000 app development competition that can lead to turning ocean data into the products and services that mankind needs. XPRIZE spurs exponential change, serving as
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ben Lecomte will receive the greatest amount of navigation data ever offered to an open water swimmer in history during The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco later this year. Using data obtained through satellites [see data example above with the gray land mass
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>Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ben Lecomte will be constantly monitored during The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco. He will attach an EKG waterproof holter monitor on his chest while wearing a RadBand radioactive cesium collector on his ankles as he swims across the largest body of water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A panel discussion, hosted by Guila Muir on Women in the Open Water will be held tonight at the C & P Coffee Company at 5612 California Ave SW in Seattle, Washington. Muir explains, “Some amazing women swimmers in the Northwest made news and set records in 2016. Say
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I was a child when [my uncle] Ben [Lecomte] walked on the shores of France in Quiberon after he first crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1998,” recalled Paul Lecomte, the Project Manager for Lecomte’s The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean. Later this year, Paul will head a 9-person
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Courtesy of Rich Roll covering surfing swimmer Conor Dwyer who grew into his status and mindset as an Olympic gold medalist. Rich Roll talks with Conor Dwyer on his podcast here in a 88-minute wide-ranging interview that he calls “From Bench Warmer to Olympic Champion“. Besides surfing, living on the waterfront in Manhattan Beach, California,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After years of planning and politicking, the selection of the location of the 2024 Summer Olympics is turning out to be between two large global cities. Several candidate cities expressed interest in hosting the 2024 Olympics including Rome (Italy), Nairobi (Kenya), Casablanca (Morocco), Durban (South Africa), Johannesburg (South Africa),
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