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Photo courtesy of Thomas Mikkelsen of the Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 53-year-old Penny Palfrey was the first to the L-Street Bathhouse in Boston at today’s 8-mile Boston Light Swim. Leading a select group of 24 athletes, she finished in 2 hours 56 minutes. More results later after […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This year, 53-year-old Penny Palfrey of Queensland, Australia headlines the 8-mile Boston Light Swim today. Joining her in the Boston Harbor Islands are 23 other solo swimmers and 6 relay teams. Similar to fellow International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee Annette Kellerman over a century ago, Palfrey is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Catalina Channel swimmers swim from Santa Catalina Island around midnight, surrounded usually by a near pitch darkness. They often simply boat in from the mainland, only briefly stepping on the island before heading back towards shore. While they often enjoy the visible bioluminescence around the surface of the water,
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Courtesy of California State University Long Beach researching sharks in Surfside, Huntington Beach, California. California State University, Long Beach Marine Biology staff and students are deploying Remote Underwater Video Systems with GoPro cameras to identify and record Great White Sharks that are spending a lot of time around the coastline of Southern California, specifically in
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Courtesy of Ashley Horne, Night Train Swimmers. In the heart of Manhattan smack dab in the middle of Times Square, Kimberley Chambers‘ latest marathon swim is being celebrated on the NASDAQ MarketSite. The reason for Chambers’ current recognition all started in 2007. After a freak accident where doctors informed her that she faced only a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After the 25-mile (40.2 km) In Search of Memphre, Katie Benoit will attempt an unprecedented Biathlon Marathon in Lake Memphremagog where she will run 35 miles (56.3 km) back to the start. The detective from Colorado Springs who specializes in Special Victims, high up in the Rocky Mountains, explains
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Stewart Evans became the first individual to swim from the Farallon Islands to the California mainland in 1967, he wore a swim cap as others have done before and after him. But looking back at historical photos of that cap, it appears to be a neoprene cap that
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Courtesy of Ocean Navi, Dogashima, Japan. Masayuki Moriya conducted an open water swimming clinic in Dogashima, Japan where the participants enjoyed cave swimming along the coast. Dogashima (堂ヶ島) is located along the western coast of Izu Peninsula (西伊豆) on Honshu in Japan where Ocean Navi conducts swimming expeditions along the dramatic stone formations and cliffs
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Königssee is a lake in the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. The Königssee is deepest and advertised as the cleanest lake in Germany. It is so clean that a 16-year-old girl on vacation was able to spot a solid gold bar 2 meters down at
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Firas Moualla is a graduate of Damascus University and is the Secretary-General of the Olympic Committee in Syria. The Syrian open water swimmer culminated his prolific career with a 124 km solo swim from the island of Cyprus to Latakia City along the Syrian coast in 2007. The 77-mile
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