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Craig Lenning, who has successfully crossed the North Channel, the English Channel, the Catalina Channel and Lake Tahoe as well as completed the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, took his talents to Japan and gave the Tsugaru Channel a good shot today. But currents were too strong and came up […]
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Sometimes the life and finish of an open water swimmer can be lonely. Training up and down a coast or in a lake in preparation for a long swim is an accepted practice of open water swimmers. Finishing upon a deserted shore, sometimes at night or at most welcomed by a few well-wishers, after hours
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Swimmers and the media talk about currents, jellyfish, waves, extreme water temperatures, and rough conditions when they discuss open water swimming. The inherent risks in the open water, whether during a short 1-mile swim or during a longer marathon swim, are well-known and well-documented. Of all the world’s open water swimmers, Michael Spalding of Maui
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Shaun MacGillivray is the Producer and Managing Director of MacGillivray Freeman Films, the film company that has created the top 10 highest grossing IMAX films in history, including Everest, To Fly, and The Living Sea. He is also heading up the company’s One World One Ocean campaign, a multi-year, multi-platform ocean media initiative aimed at
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The Czech Open Water Swimming 2012 Championships took place in Lipno, the largest lake in Bohemia. It is the traditional venue of the Czech domestic championships since 1967. Silvie Rybářová (9th in the 25km at the 2011 World Swimming Championships) stood on top the podium. The defending champion was followed by young Lenka Sterbova who
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The Czech Open Water Swimming 2012 Championships took place in Lipno, the largest lake in Bohemia. It is the traditional venue of the Czech domestic championships since 1967. Despite his relatively advanced age of 36, 2008 Olympian Rostislav Vitek won 20km title over other national team members Jan Pošmourný and Karel Baloun. Vitek won an
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Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11, passed away on Saturday. An estimated 600 million people watched the Navy pilot set foot on the moon in 1969 and heard him utter his most famous statement, “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” when he stepped off of his lunar module onto
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Throughout history, Canadians have performed extraordinarily well in open water swimming. Jacques Amyot (1995), Marilyn Bell (1967), Christine Cossette (1982), Robert Cossette (2004), Helge Jensen (1970), Vicki Keith Munro (2003), Régent Lacoursière (1978), Cliff Lumsdon (1969), Cynthia Nicholas (1978), Gilles Potvin (2006), Gus Ryder (1981), Greg Streppel (1996), Patty Thompson (1969), Margaret Park Wisniski (2000),
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Waimea Bay on the North Shore of Oahu is the renowned site of big wave surfing. Today at 9 am Hawaii time, Waimea Bay will be site of some mighty big wakes when the top young swimmers from Australia, Japan, USA, Canada and New Zealand face off in the final event of the 2012 Junior
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The Big Richard is the world’s longest beach run + ocean swim biathlon. The finish will culminate during the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on September 22nd. The brutal coastal biathlon, fashioned after the Mega, is organized by Long Beach waterman Matty Mitchell. It starts at the surf-pounding Wedge in Newport Beach (shown on
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