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Bengisu Avci (Turkey, 28, IISA bio here, MSF bio here, @bengisuavci) completed the fourth fastest female North Channel crossing in 10 hours 15 seconds yesterday. “I wanted to swim fast and did race tempo for last four hours [as] they lead me to the beach in Portpatrick [Scotland].” Now the 28-year-old heads back to Çanakkale […]
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Joanne Norman has completed five of the Oceans Seven channels. She was swimming well across the Molokai Channel until she experienced what every swimmer dreads.
Alessandra Rossi Cima (Brazil, 50, MSF bio here, @ale_rossi_cima_swims) has traveled around the world enjoying aquatic challenges of all kinds, traveling from in her home training base in Dubai. Her latest stop was in northern Japan where she conquered the Tsugaru Channel between Aomori and Hokkaido. She is still in disbelief that she became the
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Karen Ennis (53, Great Britain, MSF bio here, IISA bio here) summed up her message on her escort boat, “I am so sorry.” Today simply was not her day across the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan – which would have been her seventh of the Oceans Seven channels – to achieve goal is to become the
Karen Ellis has completed 5 of 7 channels in her quest to become the first British woman to achieve the Oceans Seven
With Andreas Waschburger (38, Germany, MSF bio here, IISA bio here, @andreaswaschburger) waiting in the wings and Alexandra Rossi Cima (50, Brazil, MSF bio here) coming up later this month, soloists Robert Woodhouse (Australia, 59, MSF bio here) and Gráinne Moss (55, Ireland, MSF bio here) were lining up in Kodomari to make their attempt on the 19.5 km
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There comes an inflection point in every channel crossing and marathon swim when a swimmer When the water temperature dropped from 23°C to 15°C and the flat water turned angry in the Tsugaru Channel about 12 km from his finish in Hokkaido, Andreas Waschburger (38, Germany, MSF bio here, IISA bio here, @andreaswaschburger) met his
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Rob Woodhouse (Australia, 59, MSF bio here) succeeded at what he described as the “hardest swim of his life.” The shortest straight-line tangent between Honshu and Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan is 19.5 km, but Woodhouse had to endure at least 58.6 km of hard swimming. While the water temperature started at 22°C in Kodomari
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July 5th is the date of a massive mega earthquake that is predicted to hit Japan. The massive earthquake could cause trillions of dollars of property damage and lead to many deaths and a resultant tsunami that would be unprecedented in contemporary times. The prediction has been shared globally, impacting inbound tourism into Japan. The
Mark Sowerby became the 29th person in history to complete the Oceans Seven with his 10 hour 6 minute crossing of the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan
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