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Courtesy of Pádraig Mallon, Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services. Pádraig Mallon announced the latest swimspiration, The Celtic Quadrant, today. “You know us at Infinity. We offer all the trimmings: cold water, fast tidal flow, jellyfish. We don’t do easy. We are introducing two additional swims to make up The Celtic Quadrant.” The Celtic Quadrant […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Keri-Anne Payne has touched a lot of people’s hearts during her career. She combined a grace, an eloquence and a sense of competitiveness that is rare in swimming and among all athletes of every endeavor. Her grace was recognized by those powerful and influential in politics, government and sports.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Mendelssohn Maurice, the Executive Secretary of La Fédération d’Haïti, l’Association de Natation Haïtienne et de Sauvetage (Haitian Aquatic Sports and Life Saving Federation) and an emergency room physician at l’Hôpital Adventiste de Diquini in Carrefour, Port-au-Prince, tells of heartbreaking stories of children and people of all ages drowning
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lewis Pugh, the United Nations Environment Programme’s Patron of the Oceans, traveled to Hong Kong and met with Doug Woodring of the Ocean Recovery Alliance to collaborate on global marine environmentalism. The timing of these leaders in the marine environmental movement could not have been more coincidental, especially on
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Courtesy of Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame, Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Phil White and Ned Denison are relentlessly restless. The tireless duo continue to celebrate, organize, encourage and promote open water swimmers and their sport from winter swimming to marathon swimming. Most recently, the stately former attorney with an eye for photography and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of Irish Long Distance Swimming Association and Swim Ireland. Ever since Mercedes Gleitze attempted seven times to swim between Northern Ireland and Scotland in the late 1920s, the North Channel has been considered to present the world’s most difficult, challenging and cruelest channel crossing. For subsequent generations of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo before the start of the ice kilometer at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. Imagine combining two of the loves of your life…one on dryland and one in the open water. Imagine swimming for a living; imagine traveling and working; imagine thinking about
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Courtesy of 7th UK Cold Water Swimming Championships, Tooting Bec Lido, London. On January 28th, Tooting Bec Lido will host the 7th 7th UK Cold Water Swimming Championships in London. It is the UK’s biggest Cold Water Championships to date. The water temperature is expected to be 1ºC, but no wetsuits are permitted. “Just get
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Courtesy of Irish Long Distance Swimming Association and Swim Ireland. For generations, the most difficult, challenging and cruelest channel crossing in the world has generally been considered to be the North Channel, 21 miles between Northern Ireland and Scotland. The North Channel is very cold for even the most hardened swimmers. It is painful due
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