Category: Open Water
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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.
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CC photo #20: A final talk before the Jóansøku 2011 swim
Two guys having a final chat before the Jóansøku 2011 open water swim across the Tvøroyri firth in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. As you see, we are not following the open water rules strictly, when it comes to gloves and caps and snorkels etc. But then again, with the water temperature seldom over 7ºC (44.6ºF), it…
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The Dark and Cold workshop in winter swimming
My opinion: If the water is that hard to come to, then it might not be for you ! :-) Kurs Vinterbad i Ursviken 2012-01-14 from Olaf Schneider on Vimeo. Visit darkandcold.com for more info
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The Sea is Free
Nice video by Henry Austwick, I guess somewhere near University College Famouth in the United Kingdom. “The Sea is Free” cut 3 from Henry Austwick on Vimeo.