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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Miguel Arrobas, Vitor Medina, Duarte Simões, Nuno Braga, Rodrigo Simões and Letícia Toste attempted the the first crossing between the islands of São Jorge and Pico in the Azores in July. Arrobas was the first to cross the 20 km stretch and reach the island of Pico, then Nuno […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bridgett Hobart finished her Cayuga Lake crossing in 20 hours 33 minutes, her longest swim in the Nazareth College Finger Lakes Challenge. Claire deBoer, the first woman to cross Cayuga Lake 31 years ago in 1984, came to town to support Hobart in her attempt and surprised me in
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Photos and report are courtesy of Phil White. Swim the Kingdom Week concluded this past weekend with races at Lake Willoughby and Caspian Lake. The week is organized by Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association and Kingdom Games. Winning at Willoughby were 37-year-old Steven Hodgins of New Jersey in 1:54:19 and Shannon House Keeghan of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Five men will attempt a tough relay crossing of cold, jellyfish-strewn Monterey Bay and will set off in the early morning of August 22nd. Three members of the team, Paul Reynolds, Frank Reynolds and Thomas Dietrich have been key members of NCAA water polo team championships at University of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After becoming the third person to complete a two-way crossing of the Auau (Maui) Channel between Lanai and Maui in 2013*, professional triathlete Meredith Novack dreamed big. Much, much bigger. Novack previously announced her plans to swim around the entire island of Oahu. Her unprecedented 220-mile (354 km) stage
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While ocean swimmers in Australia and South Africa – and increasingly Southern California – have lived with the possibility of swimming with sharks in the same general vicinity for generations, it is a new phenomenon in the Tokyo area of Japan. Increasingly, beaches just north and south of Tokyo
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Courtesy of Phil White of the Kingdom Games, Vermont. Crystal Swim is a 5-mile open water swim, part of the Swim The Kingdom, in the state of Vermont under the cliffs and around the shores. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Phil White, Island Pond Swim, Vermont. The Island Pond Swim is a 3-mile race in Lake Memphremagog from Brighton State Park Beach around The Island in Vermont. The event is part of the Swim The Kingdom event organized by Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association. Copyright © 2015 by
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Photos are courtesy of Phil White of Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association. The Seymour Swim was a 10 km marathon swim in wind-whipped Seymour Lake on August 11th as part of the Swim The Kingdom week in Vermont. Paula Yankauskas (58), Charlotte Brynn (47), Cynthia Needham (65), Kay Anderson (47), Tobias Frenz (45), Deborah
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American Presidents In The Water Photo of President John Kennedy and First Lady courtesy of Jacques Lowe, an internationally renowned photographer and photojournalist who chronicled the presidential campaign and presidency of John Kennedy. American presidents who are/were comfortable swimming and in the open water included President Obama (off Oahu, Hawaii growing up), President John Quincy
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