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Rafael Vale Amoresano Does Travessia do Leme ao Pontal In 10 Hours 6 Minutes Courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Travessia do Leme ao Pontal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the early hours of January 21st after a week with many climatic instabilities, 36-year-old Rafael Vale Amoresano started swimming at 1:00 am in Praia do Leme […]
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> > Sights From The Two-stage Russia-to-Japan Swim Courtesy of Alexander Brylin, La Pérouse Strait, Russia-to-Japan. Alexander Brylin, one of the world’s most renowned ice swimmers and one of its most active ambassadors, provided photos from the cross-border channel relay through the La Pérouse Strait between Sakhalin, Russia and Hokkaido, Japan. Brylin explained, “The first
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2020 EDF Aqua Challenge Courtesy of Loïc Branda. Loïc Branda is the managing director of a open water swimming series in France called EDF Aqua Challenge. “This year we launched the Tournée with 13 events that are held from May to September. In total, there will be 22 stages (13 EDF Aqua Challenge race plus
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Chloë McCardel Doing Her Bit To Help Out Courtesy of Chloë McCardel, Australia. Chloë McCardel is many things: a transformative leader, a keynote speaker, an ambassador for various organizations and causes, a marathon/channel swimming coach, and 31-time English Channel swimmer. She is also certainly compassionate and sympathetic. She explains her newest initiative, “You may have
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Blue Man Group Down In Antarctica Courtesy of A Service of Celebration for Commonwealth Day 2019, BBC, Westminster Abbey, London, England. Lewis Pugh, United Nations Patron of the Oceans, has always been expressive, especially about his latest training swim. “I can hardly believe what I have just experienced, swimming in a river UNDER the Antarctic
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Meeting People Along The Shore Courtesy of Lewis Pugh, Arabian Sea. Photos courtesy of Kelvin Trautman. Back in August 1994, Lewis Pugh swam 7 marathon swims to encourage governments to establish Marine Protected Areas. Pugh‘s campaign was called Seven Swims In The Seven Seas For 1 Reason: * 10 km in the Mediterranean Sea in
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Daily Medicine By Wayne William Snellgrove Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wayne William Snellgrove, a Saulteaux Indian, is an open water swimmer who started swimming in New Jersey after being taken from his birth mother at the Fishing Lake First Nation Reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. He wrote Daily Medicine, a spiritual prayer book, contains
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Alisa Fatum Breaks Ice Ceiling Courtesy of Christof Wandratsch, Veitsbronn, Germany. Greta Andersen, Judith van Berkel-de Nijs, and Shelley Taylor-Smith are in an exclusive club of open water swimming women over the last 70 years who have competed against their male counterparts mano-a-mano and beat them in the 2.8°C water. Alisa Fatum has now joined
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Fergil Hesterman, Kyra Wijnker Win Ice Kilometer In Volendam Courtesy of Openwater swimming club and Zwembad De Waterdam Edam Volendam, International Ice Swimming Association, zwembad De Waterdam Edam/Volendam, Netherlands. Dutch ice swimmers Fergil Hesterman and Kyra Wijnker threw down some pretty fast 500m and Ice Kilometer times at the Ice Swimming Volendam event on January
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2020 Cold Half And Cold Plunge In Hong Kong Courtesy of Natalie Kwan. Photos courtesy of Cheung Ka Wai, Hong Kong. 40 solo and relay swimmers competed in the 15 km Cold Half Extreme Marathon Swim course from Stanley to Deep Water Bay in Hong Kong today along with the 1.5 km Cold Plunge event.
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