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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Channel swimmer James Tout wrote Across the Pacific, a novel about a young marine who falls in love with nurse in the Philippines when war breaks out. “It is based on my uncle, whom I am named after. At the age of 18, he was one of the first […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 29-year-old Rohans More from Maharashtra India started off modestly in the open water swimming world with a Gateway of India swim in 1996. But since the summer of 2014, he has been on a tear overseas. The software engineer did an English Channel crossing in 2014 in 13 hours
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Helen Beveridge is an open water swimmer based in Scotland who became hooked on the sport of open water swimming in 2011 after booking a SwimTrek Central Lakes weekend with friends. In two years Beveridge succeeded in completing a solo crossing of the English Channel in support of Chest
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I want to do something that no one has ever done before and no one has ever swum both [the North Channel and English Channel] in [9 days],” said Polish swimmer Lukasz Kowalczyk. In a unique channel challenge that Polish-born Kowalczyk is definitely up for, he is going for
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Nejib Belhedi is most renowned for his channel and marathon swims including his most recent 15 km marathon swim in 7 hours 17 minutes, he is not known for his comeback from open heart surgery in 2005. In a military hospital in Tunis, Belhedi’s doctors took a vein
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A 17-member Ocean Navi relay team took a bit longer than planned, but they finally struggled to swim across the 43 km course in the Sado Channel on the western coast of Japan. “It took us 16 hours 18 minutes against an increasingly strong wind and unexpectedly strong currents,”
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Surfing is included in the short list of new sports that are currently under consideration for inclusion at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. As the International Olympic Committee (IOC) hopes to host hip and appealing sports to younger generation of fans, sports like surfing climb up the list of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Champion of Champions, coordinated by Mark Sheridan, annually attracts all kinds of world-class marathon swimmers and veterans of the open water. In this year’s event, the ages in the Senior Ladies division ranged from a youthful 17 years to more senior 62. The participants participate in 3 races
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Courtesy of Jamie Patrick‘s support team on The Long Swim somewhere near the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean. “Jamie [Patrick] had an extraordinary swim [78-mile (125 km) attempt in the Bahamas today]. He endured nearly 18 hours in water temperatures 86-88°F (about 31°C). He saw sharks swimming directly beneath him and got stung by WAY
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Courtesy of SeeChat.TV showing Christof “Wandi” Wandratsch‘s record-setting swim across the Bodensee, a 12 km swim in 2 hours 50 minutes.
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