Category: Open Water
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Diana Nyad presenting her 2012 Xtreme Dream Swim Jellyfish Armor
“It’s the jellyfish, that is what it is all about” :-)
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The Coldest Thing on Coney Island
Enjoy the celebration of thousand of swimmers as they welcomed 2012 with the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day Swim. Beware, there is a quite NSFW lady taking the plunge in just ‘tassels and a thong’, having promised to do so if she raised $5000 dollars for a young boy with a…
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East Bohemian freediving under the ice
I’m not totally sure where this is, but the video description says FEB Hrádek, and other videos by MrSmahy mention www.feb.cz, which is the East Bohemia Freediver club in the Czech Republic. Hrádek means ‘small fort’ in Czech, there is a map here on their site mentioning Hradec close to the center of the map.…
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4º Sea Swimmers
This is a short behind the scenes clip of a shoot done by Pete Webb mid January with Ollie Armfiled and his sea swimming club. Beautiful. 4º Sea Swimmers from Pete Webb on Vimeo.
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Polar Plunge Antartica
Even without have checked the numbers, I don’t think it gets much colder than that
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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…