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Animals Don’t Like Swimming Through Plastic And Neither Do Humans

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Plastic Disclosure Project from Thornberg & Forester on Vimeo. Animals Don’t Like Swimming Through Plastic And Neither Do Humans Courtesy of Lily Vivian Moy, Hong Kong. The Plastic Disclosure Project (PDP), founded by Douglas Woodring and Erik Floyd in 2010, aims to provide solutions to the growing plastic crisis by allowing companies and businesses to […]

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Easter Eggs Litter the Beach In New Jersey…Literally

Irish Sea Swim Relay From Holyhead to Dublin

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Irish Sea Swim for The Gavin Glynn Foundation from The Gavin Glynn Foundation. Irish Sea Swim Relay From Holyhead to Dublin Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Holyhead, Wales to Dublin, Ireland across the Irish Sea. 6 swimmers – Ger Kennedy, Richard Dunne, Ger Devin, Dee Newell, Anna Mc Carthy and Garreth Mc Dermot – swam 94

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Swim the Channel

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Swim the Channel Courtesy of Real Stories and TVF International, English Channel. Watch the documentary film Swim the Channel, visit here. Copyright © 2008 – 2020 by World Open Water Swimming Association

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Marathon Swimming Hall Of Famers At The Olympics

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Marathon Swimming Hall Of Famers At The Olympics Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Members of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame have been competing, coaching, and administering at the Summer Olympic Games since the 1900 Paris Olympics, which were the second games of the modern Olympics.* The Hall of

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Tampa Bay Frogman Swim Outdoes It, Keeps Growing

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Tampa Bay Frogman Swim Outdoes It, Keeps Growing Courtesy of Tampa Bay Frogman Swim, Florida. Not many swims get kicked off when Supermen bolt down from the high heavens and parachute down right smack on the starting line. But few swims – if any – raises money like the Tampa Bay Frogman Swim does. Nominated

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Puerto Rican Dreams Of The Triple Crown

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Puerto Rican Dreams Of The Triple Crown Courtesy of Randy Soler, Puerto Rico. After his scheduled 30-hour training swim in a 50m pool in Puerto Rico to raise money for Special Olympics Puerto Rico and for the victims of the number of earthquakes betweens January 31st and February 1st, Joel Matos and his coach have

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Ana Marcela Cunha At Home On The Road

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Ana Marcela Cunha At Home On The Road Courtesy of Colin Hill, Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan. 27-year-old Ana Marcela Cunha spent months away from her São Paolo home. But she seemed at home wherever she races. Her victory in the FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series race in Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake was typical. Top 10

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Nikki Pope’s Greatest Feat Of Endurance

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Nikki Pope’s Greatest Feat Of Endurance Courtesy of the Channel Swimming Association, English Channel. Among the hundreds of swimmers who swim across the English Channel every year, everyone has obstacles to overcome and an incredible story to tell. In the 2019 season, Nikki Pope‘s one-way 18 hour 22 minute battle from England to France was

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Twice Is A Charm For Rick Seirer

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Rick Seirer completed a 67 km two-way crossing of the English Channel on 27 August 2019 in 29 hours 46 minute at the age of 59 years 351 days. He swam 11 hours 56 minutes on his first leg and 17 hours 48 minutes on his second leg, escorted by Reg Brickell for which he received the 2019 Channel Swimming Association Award for the Most Meritorious Swim.

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