Category: Open Water
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Great Australia Day Swim 2012
Michael Klim points to this video here on Twitter, from the Great Australia Day Swim 2012 charity swim, supporting charities and community organisations providing support to disadvantaged children and youths. They raised about AUD $ 70,000, most of it going to Les Twentyman’s 20th Man Fund. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/MichaelKlimAus/status/164493908783546368″]
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Russian yacht skipper gets 4½ years in jail for causing swimmer’s death
Russian yachtsman Sergey Marchenko has been jailed for four and a half years and ordered to pay one million rubles in compensation to a young woman’s family, whom he ran down with a yacht back in 2010, in an area of a Moscow lake reserved for swimmers. The woman became caught up in the propellers…
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The Night Swimmer – a book review
I received a free copy of “The Night Swimmer” by Matt Bondurant this Christmas, promising in return to write a book review about it. Didn’t realize how hectic life would be here in January – but well, managed to read it eventually, quite not-stop even, because it turned out to be good! And now I’ll…
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Colors 77 – Federica Pellegrini
A bit old video here, but interesting. Dad sounds like a swell guy, making her swim farther out into the sea than she dared. Colors 77 – Federica Pellegrini from bryce licht on Vimeo.
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Diana Nyad at TEDMED 2011
At 62, record-smashing endurance swimmer Diana Nyad set out to swim from Cuba to Florida, she tells here dramatic story here, including the real reason she set herself such a tremendous task. There is a Q&A follow up too
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English sea swimmer finds bathing water as warm as Caribbean near Shoreham
John Kapp claims to have found a little piece of the Caribbean off the Sussex coast, about the size of a football pitch and above a foot deep, where he has been swimming for up to three-quarters of an hour in just his swimming trunks in what should be icy waters. He says the water…
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Polar Plunge raises $6,100+ for Special Olympics
Saturday January 21, 2012, the 2nd Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge raised a bit more than $6,100 in pledged donations to the Michigan Special Olympics, when 60 people jumped through a big hole in the ice on Goguac Lake. Air temperature 20ºF (-6.7CºC)), water temperature a bit ‘warmer’ 30ºF (-1.1ºC). See BattleCreekEnquirer.com.
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CC photo #22: Pál and Eyðbjørn ready for the Jóansøku 2010 lake swim
Pál Joensen and Eyðbjørn Joensen ready for the Jóansøku 2010 open water swim in Vági, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Eyðbjørn with the thumbs up has opted for the insulated solution, while Pál opted for the really fast (and cold) Jaked ‘supersuit’ solution.
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The Longest Swim – The challenge of Ben Lecomte
»I had a shark following me for five days. It came pretty close at one time so that I was able to state “That’s not a tuna”« Follow him on www.thelongestswim.com The Longest Swim – show demo from Ridgeline on Vimeo.