Category: Open Water
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Georgian girl to swim across the Dardanelles with hands and feet tied
A 17-year-old Georgian girl plans to swim across the Dardanelles with her hands and feet tied on August 30, the ten-year anniversary of Henry Kuprashvili carrying out the feat in 2002, setting a Guinness record. Read dfwatch.net (and thanks Dato!) Here’s a video from when Henri Kuprashvili swam across in 2002
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Body of missing freediver Rebecca Weiss found
The body of freediver Rebecca Weiss, who went missing in California last weekend while on a dive, has been found. She was discovered floating in the water off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula late Saturday, KNBC-TV reported. She apparently drowned, although the cause of death has not been officially determined. An autopsy is scheduled…
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Diana Nyad and team hit by a squall, still soldiering on
Off Nyad’s website: Angie Sollinger with the Media Ops team reported that just after 8pm EDT “all hell broke loose here.” Out of nowhere, a squall “blew up very quick” and hit the flotilla with winds at one point reaching 14 knots, pushing Diana east. … At this time, 1:00am EDT, we believe that the…
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A day in Berlenga Island
So that would be the Berlengas in Portugal. Rocky and barren with lots of water, I like it ! A day in Berlenga island from Berta upe TilmantaitÄ— on Vimeo.
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The first 24 hours of Diana Nyad’s swim from Cuba to Florida
Official observer Steve Munatones shares his observations of Diana Nyad And here is Nyad singing and cheering up the crew
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CC photo #233: Me trying to get steady shots on a crowded fish farm ring
A photo from the 2012 Swim Across The Bay in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, yesterday. First swimmer Alvi already out of the water and the second LÃv on her way. Not so easy, trying to get steady video on a relatively narrow fish farm ring, with people moving about and around me, and waves in general…
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Diana Nyad attempts Cuba to US swim for the 4th time
62-year-old Diana Nyad jumped in the waters near Havana on Saturday in her fourth bid to make the record-making crossing, to swim from Cuba to the USA without a shark cage. She has already been stung by jellyfish a couple of times, but is still swimming according to her Twitter stream. Read for instance USA…
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CC photo #232: Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk 2012 Medal Winners
Medal winners of the 2012 annual open water swim across the bay of KlaksvÃk, today. A video is on its way :-)
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CC photo #231: The 7 participants of Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012
Behold the brave 7 that dared to endure the 2012 edition of “Nólsoyarsvimjingin”, the 15th annual swim from Tórshavn to Nólsoy in the Faroe Islands, about 5K from the rocks they are standing on to the island in the background. They all made it across, Erlendur Simonsen to the right the only one to have…