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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Getting in and out of a car – and most other places – as a lower body amputee is not easy. But Nicola Doran (51, Ireland, IISA bio here, @nicoladoran1) is also driven to get in and out of her car often. To go to the coast around her hometown of Donaghadee in Northern Ireland. […]
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Reported by Bill Goding in Hawaii. On his third attempt, Simon Olliver (61, New Zealand, MSF bio here, @simon_channelswimmer) from Christchurch completed a 45 km crossing of the Molokai Channel from Molokai Island to Oahu in Hawaii, escorted by Ivan Shigaki on August 30th in 14 hours 24 minutes on his third attempt. The courageous crossing of the Channel of Bones enabled him
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Wow. After landing in Dublin via a nearly 11-hour flight from LAX, I traveled to Belfast, then Bangor, and then Donaghadee in Northern Ireland. My plan is to watch Andreas Waschburger (38, Germany, MSF bio here, IISA bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @andreaswaschburger) attempt a 35 km crossing of the North Channel from Donaghadee to Portpatrick,
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Beauty The Turkish Olympic Committee’s annual Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swimming Race is so cool and so iconic. On the one day of the year that the Bosphorus Strait is closed to all regular marine traffic and the open water swimming community takes over, the intercontinental crossing of the Bosphorus Strait is a showcase of all
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Jeffrey Rake of Encinitas, California (USA, @SharkRepel) does a lot in the ocean: he serves as an escort kayaker, he swims himself, and his latest iteration, is as an aquapreneur. While he escort kayaks swimmers across the 32.3 km Catalina Channel and enjoying coastal swims like the La Jolla Roughwater Swim he introduces his latest
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Rob Woodhouse, an Olympic swimmer and CEO of Swimming Australia, is one channel crossing from achieving the Oceans Seven. He talks about his journey.
Andreas Waschburger, Six Down, One To Go with the North Channel Looming Ahead Read More »
“I faced strong winds and very large ocean swells, but I made it,” said amputee Salvatore Cimmino (Italy, @salvator.cimmino) who crossed the 45 km Molokai Channel from Molokai to Oahu at Kaiser Estate near China Walls in 13 hours 27 minutes escorted by pilot Manoa Buckman (@triedtofixit_thanbrokeit_manoa). Bill Goding said, “China Walls was ruled out due to the difficulty [Salvatore
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Antonio Argüelles has been dreaming and training for a two-way crossing of the English Channel for years – and another opportunity ended due to poor conditions. He tells his story.
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Ricardo Durón Molina, a coach of Oceans Seven swimmer Antonio Argüelles of Mexico, organized a swim trek on Isla Cerralvo or Isla Jacques Cousteau located off the Cerralvo Canal coast near La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. “It was really beautiful,” he explained. “We did it with just a bunch of swimming friends to see if it would be a
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John Procope (@thebigswimtt, The Big Swim, shown above on right) is a Tobagonian scuba diver with a deep felt appreciation of the oceans around him – as well as a well of knowledge about the native history of his homeland. Procope was inspired by Sandy, an enslaved African who became the leader of the first
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