Category: Open Water
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Bride drowns during photo shoot when wedding dress pulls her into the river
Warning to all wedding photographers, a newly married Montreal-area women drowned this past Friday during a ‘trash the dress’ photo shoot in the Ouareau River. The 30-year-old woman stepped into water that was neither deep nor fast-flowing. However, her wedding dress soaked up the river water, making it extremely heavy. She then slipped on the…
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Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, completes the 2012 Round Christiansborg open water swim
According to SN.dk and the official result list, HRH Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, yesterday participated in 2012 Round Christiansborg in the canals of Copenhagen, and completed the 2000 meter swim in 35.20 and 65th spot, flanked by famed Olympian Mette Jacobsen who finished in 35.21 and 68th. Not many swimmers noticed Her Royal Highness, hidden behind her…
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CC photo #238: A pretty cool support boat
Used at the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk, owned by the local fire department, looks like a Pioner Multi complete with winch-lowerable bow door.
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CC photo #237: 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk start position
My wife took this photo just before the start of the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk. Our oldest daughter right in front of her, filming the event. Team work ! :-)
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Idaho woman hypothermic after “sleep swimming”
A 31-year-old woman who went missing in the early hours of yesterday morning was found on a river bank quarter of a mile away, soaking wet and suffering from hypothermia after apparently swimming there in her sleep. Read for instance Mail Online and The Olympian
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Video from the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk
Here at last, the video from the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk, last Saturday, my daughter filming the start with our GoPro and then me trying to get steady shots on the rocking fish farm ring that was the finishing line.
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Diana Nyad on failed Cuba-Florida swim: ‘Maybe it can’t be done’
Tiny jellyfish threaten to permanently quash 63-year-old swimmer’s dream, read Today News Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy See also CBS News
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Sunday Funday: Island Bouldering
Wow, “Swim out to a rock island and climb around.” Sunday Funday: Island Bouldering from Aaron Eveland on Vimeo.
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Sea Swimming
Here the Siobhan McKenna Cup in Ireland, 11 August, 2012. They sure took their sweet time to get in the water. Sea Swimming from Afric Creedon on Vimeo.