Category: Open Water
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The 158th annual London boat race interrupted by swimmer
The annual race between Cambridge University and Oxford was interrupted at the midway point today when a man in wetsuit moved between the boats and was almost hit by one of the Oxford oar blades, Oxford then slightly ahead. After a delay of about 30 minutes, the race was restarted near the midway point, Oxford…
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Skinny dipper can’t find clothes, goes home, sets off rescue search
Apparently, an Ocean Beach woman with friends went swimming naked Tuesday night, and when she got out of the water, she couldn’t find her clothes, her cellphone or her wallet. So she walks home “drunk and naked” and falls asleep, while another beach goer finds her stuff, waits by it for an hour, before calling…
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FINA 10K World Cup: Gianniotis and Cunha capture gold in Eilat
At the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup in Eilat (ISR) yesterday, Spyridon Gianniotis (GRE) and Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA) won gold, Gianniotis by outsprinting Thomas Lurz (GER) to a 1h52m32s45 third consecutive win out of three possible at this World Cup series and Cunho by clipping Ekaterina Seliverstova with a 2h02m37s45 to 2h02m37s80. See…
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World’s first live Google+ underwater hangout from Great Barrier reef this Friday
Award winning documentarian Richard Fitzpatrick, together with the team from the Catlin Seaview Survey, will be hanging out on Google+ from beneath the sea LIVE from the Great Barrier Reef this Friday March 30 at 3:45 p.m. Sydney Time (that’s early Friday morning 04:45.00 UTC in Europe). Leave your questions and comments for the divers…
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Lost GoPro camera reunited with owner after 10 months at sea
Zach Wilson, an adventure sports enthusiast and film-maker was paddle-boarding off North Carolina’s Outer Banks in May of last year with a friend, when his GoPro digital camera went missing. Ten months later, on February 28, he got an unexpected surprise when the friend he was with at the time spotted what he thought was…
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Six SA Rugby players feared dead after ocean swim
Six players from the South African rugby club Motherwell are feared dead after being swept out to sea during a post-practice ocean swim today, one player already been declared dead. They had gone swimming in the sea when they were swept out by a rip current, others stepping in to try to rescue them only…
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Davies hopes Serpentine simulator will help him win the Olympic 10K
Double Olympic medallist David Davies is hoping a revolutionary new computer game designed by students can help him claim gold at London 2012. Kept secret in British swimming for the last year, the project called Open Water Warfare is supposed to help home stars compete in the 10K, apparently by letting them practice the navigation…
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Sounding the deepest spot on Earth with sonar
The day is getting ever closer, when James Cameron will go for the second ever dive down into the deepest abyss available, according to one commenter on Facebook as soon as weather conditions are calm enough to allow them to navigate to the dive site and make the descent.
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Mom saves daughter from shark attack
Valeh Levy and her 15-year-old daughter, Sydney, were paddling on their surfboards Wednesday off New Smyrna Beach in Florida when a shark suddenly pulled the teen underwater — twice. Levy pulled her daughter onto her board. Read more here on ABC News “It was to me like a scene out of ‘Jaws,’ where the girl’s…