Category: Open Water
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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…
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CC photo #229: Swimmers ready for “Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012”
Open water swimmers ready for the swim from Tórshavn to Nólsoy (the island ahead of them). Only about 5K in a straight line, but the current typically slings you way south (to the right on the picture) and then back again north so fast that swimmers sometimes have drifted clear off the island before being…
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Unidentified woman dies trying to cross the English Channel
The body of an unidentified Asian woman wearing a wetsuit has been found on a beach in northern France. Carrying a compass and energy food bars, spare clothes in a plastic pouch and smeared with vaseline, she is thought to have attempted to swim the 21 miles across the English Channel to Britain, when she…
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CDC confirms amoeba infection killed Lily Lake swimmer
Tests confirm that an amebic infection is what killed a 9-year-old boy days after he went swimming in a popular lake in Stillwater. Read more here on myfox9.com Minneapolis News and Weather KMSP FOX 9
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Video from “Ólavsøkusvimjingin 2012”
Behold, our footage from the 400 meter open water race along the main pier of Tórshavn on our national holiday “Ólavsøka“. The laughing along the route is mostly because me and Bartal had totally underestimated how fast we had to run, if our plan of one filming while the other ran should work.