Category: Open Water
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Gary Hall Sr interviews Penny Palfrey
A Race Club interview here with Penny Palfrey, about her 67.2 mile unassisted ocean swim world record (for both men and women) from Little to Grand Cayman Islands. Gary Hall Sr is a master at finding nice interview locations :-)
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‘Missing’ swimmer sentenced to 5 years
The Massachusetts man who faked his own disappearance off La Jolla shores in February was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston on Wednesday, charged with defrauding his former employer of more than $3.1 million, ordered to pay restitution and sentenced to five years in prison. Read LaJollaPatch.
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… And we’re back !
Battered and bruised, but happy after a successful open water swim in Tvøroyri, followed by a sailboat barbecue and sleepover on the old sloop Johanna. Now to read up on the news … Here are some handpicked photos from the event
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Swimming New Zealand has ‘no hope’ of medals
New Zealand’s Olympic swimming hopes appear dim after SPARC’s damning review of the sport an insistence on change – with insiders saying there is little or no hope of medalling at London next year. Read more here on nzherald.co.nz, via the17thman.
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Who brings a machete to an ocean swim ?
Interesting detail here, as mentioned by Gold Medal Mel and The Swim Brief … One of the members of her support team traveling in a small inflatable, a local fisherman named Charles Ebanks, distracted the sharks with dead fish, then killed three of six- to eight-footers with a machete. Earlier this week we read that…
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52-year-old Fry sets record for fastest swim from Manhattan to NJ and back
Yesterday, 52-year-old Elizabeth Fry swam the 17.5 miles from Battery Park in Manhattan to Sandy Hook, NJ, in only 4 hours, 59 minutes and 2 seconds, 7 minutes and 2 seconds faster than the record set by Australia’s Tammy van Wisse in 2006. And then she swam back, becoming the first person ever to complete…
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Palfrey recovering well after record-breaking swim
Penny Palfrey was released from hospital Tuesday morning after being hospitalised for a day and a half from her epic 40 hour and 41 minute swim from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman. “The swelling is already gone and she’s starting to look like herself”, her husband Chris Palfrey said Monday evening. Turns out now afterwards…
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Video from Palfrey’s record-setting swim
Video here from Penny Palfrey’s swim between Little Cayman and Grand Cayman, and from the moment when she walked ashore after more than 40 gruelling hours in the sea. She beat the existing record for longest solo unassisted ocean swim by four miles, so that it now stands at 67.25 miles (108.22 km), but her…
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Palfrey sets world record for longest unassisted ocean swim
At approximately 10:07 pm Sunday night, marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey set a new world record by swimming 67.25 miles from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman in 40 hours and 41 minutes. Read more here on compasscayman.com and here on The Daily News of Open Water Swimming.