Category: Open Water
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Mudjimba Island Charity Swimming 2012
August 2012, Queensland, Australia, charity swimming raising funds for the Nambour & Currimundi special schools. Open water, from Mudjimba Island to Mooloolaba beach, 11 Km+ off on the wrong side of the sharks nets. Mudjimba Island Charity Swimming 2012 from Pablo Ballester on Vimeo.
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Piombino 2012 OW Europeans website online, promo video fabulous
Only two weeks until the Piombino 2012 European Championships – Open Water Swimming, in Piombino, Italy from 12 to 16 September, see www.piombino2012.com. Start Lists and Results will be shown here on omegatiming.com. Promo video is awesome, makes me wanna go there and bring a spear ! :-)
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First underwater wheelchair to debut in London ahead of Paralympics
A British artist will perform swimming pool acrobatics in the world’s first underwater wheelchair this week in London. Sue Austin, a wheelchair-bound artist, invented and helped create the prototype and she’ll be demonstrating what it can do at the London 2012 Festival Wednesday through Saturday. Read for instance Toronto Sun and the BBC
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Wayne Soutter makes history with North Channel swim
43-year-old South African Wayne Soutter has become the first person ever to swim from the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland to the north Antrim coast in Northern Ireland. Others have conquered the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland, but none of them have crossed by the shortest and most treacherous route, from Kintyre. And…
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CC photo #240: 3 guys having fun with a fishing crate in Toftir harbor
A strange sight in Toftir harbor, yesterday evening, three young men who’d put on wetsuits and lowered a fishing crate into the harbor, to see if they could get up into it all three at once. Quite difficult, by the looks of it, as it was very prone to keeling over. Moments later, all three…
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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 ! :-)