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Crossing The North Channel: When The Body Says Stop, But The Mind Pushes On

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By Jere Mateo Jeremias Mateo Castillo (43, Spain, MSF bio here, @jereswim, aka Jere Mateo) is a 43-year-old Spanish adventurer, mountain climber, and paraswimmer who got into swimming after a terrible mountain climbing accident. His ascent in the sport, culminating in his journey towards the Oceans Seven, is steady and gradual. He has done races ranging from […]

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Marcia Cleveland Going For Another Major Swim After Her Oceans Seven

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Marcia Cleveland (61, USA, MSF bio here, IISA bio here, @marciac944) has done the Frosted Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with an Ice Mile in 4.15°C water and 2.20°C air, one of the fastest 45.9 km Manhattan Island Marathon Swims in history, was the solo finisher in the 25 km Swim Across The Sound in 2014, completed the California Triple Crown

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Alessandra Rossi Cima Becomes First Brazilian To Achieve The Oceans Seven

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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 – She Came, She Swam, She Will Return (to Tsugaru in her Quest for the Oceans Seven)

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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

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The Doctor Makes A House Call To The Tsugaru Channel

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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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