Category: Open Water
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State Insurance – Swim Promo
Cool promo video here, I guess promoting the State NZ Ocean Swim Series State Insurance – Swim Promo from Gemma Heyes on Vimeo.
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Strel Swimming Adventures expands to the US
Exciting news, Strel Swimming Adventures have opened a new tour at Lake Powell, Arizona, which looks just great. See www.strelswimming.com for other tours in Slovenia and Croatia as well. Gee, here is something for both me the swimmer and my brother the geologist.
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Live Shark Attack Experiment to start in T-minus 12 hours
Today, Friday 11/25 at 9P ET, Nat Geo Wild is arranging a special “Shark Attack Live Experiment”, to answer the questing: “Are sharks out to get you?”. We’ve already seen a teaser, with girls in bikinis testing if Great Whites like human skin, and this evening it will then be a team of freedivers and…
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The diving grandmas of Jeju Island
Haenyo literally means ‘sea women’, and is a centuries old tradition on the island of Jeju, 53 miles south of mainland Korea. Women diving for conch, octopus, urchin and abalone, because if their men did it, they’d have to pay taxes, and that wouldn’t make it profitable. The reason for them being mostly grandmas today,…
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Freedance (Freediving in Bozburun)
So I have a weakness for freediving, deal with it :-) Freedance (Freediving in Bozburun) from mert gokalp on Vimeo.
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Three young girls completed the Alcatraz swim today
Kenya Lam, 12, Malia Martin, 13, and Isabella Des Roches, 11, have been training with a swim coach since September to embark on the 1.25 miles swim from Alcatraz to the San Francisco shore today, and completed it despite of frigid November waters. They would have liked to do the swim with an organized group,…
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Open water swimming drills
Courtesy of www.openwaterswimming.com, kicking with a snorkel and the “hug drill”. Both of them work perfectly for pool swimmers also :-)
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“Mr Unstoppable” training for his Mississippi swim
Injured Marine Jay Platt trains to cross the Mississippi River handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded. And yes, he managed to complete the swim.
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Benoit “Ben” Lecomte to swim across the Pacific Ocean (!)
Benoit “Ben” Lecomte, a Frenchman living in the United States, intends to swim across the Pacific Ocean next year, an unprecedented 8,800-kilometer (about 5,500 miles) journey expected to last five grueling months. And believe it or not, he knows what he’s doing, as he in 1998 was the first man to swim the Atlantic, crossing…