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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is leading up to 65,000 walkers across the Mackinac Bridge on the annual Labor Day Bridge Walk on September 7th, those walkers will also be able to see 84 swimmers below them in the inaugural Mighty Mac Swim across the Straits of Mackinac in […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bridgette Hobart Janesczko has successfully completed the longest 5 crossings of her The 5 Majors & The 4 Minors Swimming for a Cause event in the New York Finger Lakes. Her 5 swims have been long, difficult and thoroughly taxing: Stage 1 – Canandaigua 15.5 miles in 7 hours
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With her escort boat piloted with Betty Billings and Belinda Stayton, and her crew anchored by her kayaking husband Bobby Janesczko, Bridgette Hobart Janesczko set off across the at Seneca State Park at 6:01 pm. 24 hours 31 minutes and 38 miles later, she walked up onshore at Village
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As expected, the Italian teams dominated yesterday’s 5 km team pursuit 5 km event at the 1st Mediterranean Beach Games in Pescara, Italy. The gold medal went to the Italian team of Dario Verani, Andrea Bianchi and Arianna Bridi who won comfortably over their teammates of Andrea Manzi, Giulia
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wilson Vinano Jr. is the visionary behind the Electronic Shark Defense System (ESDS) and 808 eSharkForce, an easy-to-carry and easy-to-swim-with shark deterrent system. Linda Kaiser and the Kaiwi Channel Swimmers Association have teamed up with 808eSharkForce and Vinano to extend an unprecedented invitation to all channel swimmers. “808eSharkForce will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is all for one and one for all with Joe Rainero (49, shown above), Matt Maurer (38), Triple Crowner Lance Ogren (44), and Mike Stresemann (54). The quarter will attempt a relay swim in South Carolina tomorrow where they will swim around Sullivan’s Island and the Isle of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers are often heard saying, “Open water swimming is 80% mental.” Today, on the 40th anniversary of the first attempt at a three-way crossing of the English Channel, Kevin Murphy literally helped expand the mindset of the swimming community with his valiant but unsuccessful attempt. Murphy, who
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A hint of nervousness, a splash of self-doubt, a fear of changing weather conditions, a bit of insomnia, and second thoughts on the amount of training performed are always possible in the week leading up to a major athletic endeavor. This is especially true for an attempt that has
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Courtesy of Ocean Voices, We Fight for Sharks by David McGuire, an ocean advocate and founder of the Ocean Health and Shark Conservation non-profit Sea Stewards. Click here at Ocean Voices for all kinds of photos and information about , sharks.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco,” is a quote often mentioned that hints about the dynamically fickle weather of the northern California jewel of a city. In these variable conditions, Night Train 300 (NT300) is an attempt in San Francisco Bay by the
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