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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Double Triplers or Triple Doublers are individuals who have achieved two separate Triple Crowns of Open Water Swimming by completing at least two English Channel crossings, two Catalina Channel crossings, and two Manhattan Island Marathon Swims during the course of their career. As of yesterday, the members of this […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Blonde In Deep Water is a biography of Brenda Fisher, the most famous open water swimmer of her generation. Written by Lucy Wood, Blonde In Deep Water goes back in time to explore the life and times of Fisher who was the first female finisher at the Billy Butlin
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chris Ring set off on the Swim For Their Sacrifice on June 6th. His goal? To swim 2,552 miles (4,107 km) down the entire length of the Mississippi River from its northern reaches in the state of Minnesota down to its estuary in the Gulf of Mexico. This charity
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Exhausted, shivering and somewhat disoriented under medical care is how Chloë McCardel ended her 36 hour 12 minute three-way English Channel crossing today. But like her earlier swim in the Bahamas where she spent 6 days in a local hospital to recover, McCardel was triumphant in her pain. She
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Rolano is the escort boat to be used by Benoît Lecomte on his 180-day 8,000 km stage swim across the Pacific Ocean. Lecomte and his support crew (including Strategist Malena Gamboa, Coordinator Tyler Bel, Campaigner Scott Smith, and Skipper Richard) will be onboard the Rolano for an estimated
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Benoît Lecomte is pushing hard to prepare for The Longest Swim: mentally, physically, logistically, and on Indiegogo. “I’ve been pouring my life into the project. We just published our crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo,” writes Lecomte. “We need all the support we can get to make it a success. I’ll
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Several athletes flew directly from Kazan, Russia at the 2015 FINA World Championships to Québec, Canada to participate in the 10 km Traversée internationale du lac Mégantic. The Traversée in lac Mégantic is the only 10 km point-to-point race on the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. Italian Rachele
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Several world-class athletes flew directly from Kazan, Russia at the 2015 FINA World Championships to Québec, Canada to participate in the 10 km Traversée internationale du lac Mégantic. The Traversée in lac Mégantic is the only 10 km point-to-point race on the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. Australian
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers always gaze upon bodies of water and wonder what it feels like to swim in, what the flow of the water is, what the water temperature feels like, and what is visible under the water (the marine life, the depth, the clarity). Some water is salty
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel has finished her third two-way crossing of the English Channel, taking 22 hours 42 minutes en route to her planned triple crossing. Her first crossing was 11 hours 34 minutes, her second crossing was an even faster 11 hours 8 minutes in the 17.5°C (63.5°F) water. She
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