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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This was an actual discussion that Luke Tipple and Steven Munatones had with the crew aboard the Voyager during Diana Nyad’s attempted swim from Cuba to Florida. Situation: Dire and foreboding as a squall was heading closer to Nyad and her crew Time: Late at night Position: 40 miles […]
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Hank Wise is organizing a marathon swim-run around the fishing piers of Orange County, California. The Catalina Channel swimmer explains, “Get on the Big Red Bus with your goggles in hand. Who said dress up party? Just arrive, survive and thrive at the best Sunday Morning Swim Party Ever.” On August 26th at 8 am
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Race Director Merritt Johnson Morris explained, “I didn’t get to see the finish between 17-year-old Nick Vargas and [veteran] Alex Kostich, but I heard people asking about who this 17-year-old was.” Without a doubt, more people will hear about Vargas over the next Olympic quadrennial. Nick Vargas has been
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Alexander Studzinski is a top professional marathon swimmer with a particularly prolific career. The 29-year-old from Germany has been in the top ranks of the professional circuit for year. In addition to shorter invitational races that have taken him from England to Brazil, he focuses his summer on the longer races. Among his 50 of
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Irene van der Laan is an interior designer by trade, decorating and advising clients on how to make their homes and offices brighter and more organized in a way that reflects their personality. But Irene’s heart is geared towards the outdoors – specifically the open water. A partial list of her open water swims from
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Doug Stanley and his team at Ridgeline Entertainment are the people who are enabling Ben Lecomte to realize his dream to not only swim across the Pacific Ocean, but also to bring the day-to-day drama to the world in a unique technological package. Out in the middle of the Earth’s largest body of water, Stanley
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ishin denshin (以心伝心), the Japanese concept of mutual understanding and communication, is playing itself out during Diana Nyad’s 103-mile attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. Her business partner at Brava Body and her chief handler Bonnie Stoll have forged an ideal relationship between themselves. Stoll, formerly a world-class
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Becca Mann, the youngest Olympic Trials finalist (in various events) and a top American open water swimmer, will head over to Honolulu this year. Mann will try to stem the Aussie tide and win the perenially tough Waikiki Roughwater Swim. But FINIS’ Luane Rowe of Australia is no going out without s fight. The four-time
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Swimmers from Argentina have won the Traversée international du lac St-Jean 13 times since 1955. Swimmers from the United States of America have also won 13 times since 1955. The winners of the Traversée international du lac St-Jean, who have competed in difference distances, over the years include the following: 1955 – Jacques Amyot (Canada)
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Olympian Damian Blaum of Argentina has had a long career in the professional marathon swimming community. He has swum all over the world: *Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli (36 km in Italy) in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 *Marathon de Cancún (15 km in Mexico) in 2012 *Santa Fe – Corondo (57 km in Argentina) in
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