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Photo of Ned Denison, Jills Vanegas and Jacques Tuset courtesy of Gary Emich on Devil’s Island. “I started the bucket list for fun,” describes Triple Break visionary Ned Denison. “I enjoyed having the largest number of escapes [from former island prisons] for some years. But in 2014, I noticed that a French swimmer had set […]
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Blue Mind trailer from Between Two Harbors by Richard Yelland from Wallace J. Nichols on Vimeo. Dr. Wallace J. Nichols first introduced the concept of the Blue Mind with his best-selling Blue Mind. Since that time, this concept has grown and touched millions of people in different ways. “In our effort to change the conversation
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marco Bovi, Stefano Caleffi and Maria Eleonora Sassi completed a crossing the Bocche di Bonifacio (Strait of Bonifacio) that separates the Tyrrhenian Sea from the western Mediterranean Sea. The strait is notorious among sailors for its weather, currents, shoals, and other obstacles. The 15 km course, organized by NAL
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Never Alone category is a division within St. Vincent’s Swim Across the Sound from Port Jefferson, Long Island, to Captain’s Cove in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The well-established charity swim raises as much as US$2 million per year to benefit individuals and families battling cancer.* In the Never Alone category
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doug Green started his aquatic journey at the age of 6 and is still going strong in the water and on the pool deck six decades later. As a top competitive swimmer in Southern California representing Lakewood Aquatics under coach Jim Montrella, he later transitioned to a collegiate swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Trevor Smith was one of the founding fathers of the British Long Distance Swimming Association*, serving as its Honorary Treasurer for over 25 years until 1981 and as its president during the 1971 season. He was instrumental in establishing the Lake Windermere International competition every four years as the
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Courtesy of Phil White, Kingdom Games, Vermont. When you organize dozens of events, you have the opportunity to meet hundreds of inspirational individuals of all ages and abilities. That is the position that Phil White finds himself year after year as the Director of the Kingdom Games and the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association.
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