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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Penny Dean who shattered the English Channel record by over an hour in 1978 and who set the still-standing record in the Catalina Channel will speak at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California on September 22nd. She will participate […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Big, smooth displacements of water in the ocean – the rhythmic movement of ocean swells – can be used to your advantage while swimming in the coastal open water locations. Railroading is when a swimmer uses the power of large wind-generated waves or ocean swells to push them forward
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Swimming Across Lake Michigan And Watching History Courtesy of WOWSA, Long Beach, California. During the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference, Greta Andersen will speak and engage the audience on a number of her swims: racing 5 times across the English Channel, getting pulled from the Molokai Channel due to sharks, completing the first two-way
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At the 2102 Battle of the Quants, a gathering of algorithmic asset traders in the financial sector, quantitative analyst Aaron Brown started his presentation with a statement of the following numerals: 3.14159. He waited. He knew someone in the audience would respond. “265358,” came the answer from the back of the room. Together, the range
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Tina Neill became the first person to swim from San Clemente Island to the Southern California mainland today. The famous backstroke-swimming channel swimmer finished the 52-mile (83.6 km) ocean swim in 28 hours 41 minutes to join the 24-hour club. Neill holds the world records for the fastest backstroke crossing of the Catalina Channel (10
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If the women’s race at the RCP Tiburon Mile is impossibly tough to predict with Emily Brunemann, Becca Mann, Ashley Twichell, Melissa Gorman, Christine Jennings vying for the top US$10,000 prize, the men is even more so. Long-time participant Ous Mellouli of Tunisia is not taking part. Neither are former champions Thomas Lurz of Germany,
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Taro Shirato (白戸 太朗) is an accomplished and charismatic professional triathlete in Japan who has helped create a tremendous buzz and public awareness of triathlons in Japan. But he also created the interesting term Sports navigator (スポーツナビゲーター). The King of Triathlon in Japan explains, “A sports navigator does not simply instruct and introduce sports. The
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Just Keep Swimming, a Catalina Channel relay with Kate Martin, P.K. Gauchan, Robyn Beresh, Alicia Bartley (Team Captain), Sherry Winston, and Steve Klein, lived up to its name with a 13 hours 8 minute crossing. “We had really rough waters the first 6 hours of the swim,” explained Winston. “The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation Observers
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POW! WHAM!! BAM!!! Intensity and uncertainty. It is the RCP Tiburon Mile. Talk about an all-out dogfight in the open water: the RCP Tiburon Mile has it all with the top American and Australian marathon swimmers going at it this Sunday from Angel Island to Tiburon, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San
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At the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremony that culminates the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference, a renowned member of the open water swimming community will give the Channel Blessing: May your limbs be strong and your breath be even. May the rhythm of you stroke be smooth And your Spirit high.
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