Category: Open Water
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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…
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Keri-anne Payne on her Olympic bid
Olympic open water swimming silver medallist and world champion Keri-anne Payne has launched the British Gas Great Swim Series 2012 and confirmed that the British Gas Great London Swim on Saturday 26th May and the British Gas Great North Swim on Friday 22-24th June will feature in her training plan for the summer. Read more…
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Diana Nyad goes for her Xtreme Dream again
It’s official, Diana Nyad will try again this summer to swim from Cuba to Florida.
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Cameron’s Deepsea Challenger launched, will go into the abyss in a few weeks
Behold the Deepsea Challenger, a one-man submersible craft that in a few weeks will take filmmaker James Cameron into the deepest point in the ocean – Challenger Deep in the Pacific’s Mariana Trench – as only the third human to visit that place since Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh back in 1960. Millionaire adventurer Chris…
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The Longest Swim
A promo of the documentary series about Ben Lecomte’s epic swim across the Pacific Ocean this summer, being developed by Emmy Award winning producer, Doug Stanley. See thelongestswim.com
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Ditched kite surfer fends of sharks with a knife for 2 days in Red Sea
Janek Lisewski, 42, a kite surfing champion from Poland, was two-thirds of the way through a 124-mile trip between Egypt and Saudi Arabia when the wind died down and deflated his kite. He survived by drinking energy drinks and two energy bars. He used a knife to fend off sharks. “I was stabbing them in…
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English Channel Swimming website launched
The Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation (CS&PF) launched their newly designed site cspf.co.uk this week, offering a wealth of practical information including an informative explanation of what English Channel rules are, and featuring personal accounts of swimmers who have successfully swam solo between England and France. It also has a lighter side with advice regarding…
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Navy SEAL endorses swimming
“Competitive swimmers have an advantage in this pipeline because of their familiarity and comfort in the water. Something you can’t really teach. One of the biggest and largest hurdles that any potential SEAL has to face is fear of the water, fear of the ocean.” Via GoSwim on Twitter