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Daily News of Open Water Swimming
Tom Hanks, Shrimp And Squid In The Open ...
Tom Hanks in the Academy Awards Best Movie Forrest Gump said, "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what ...
When Leaders Go To Retreat And Do Open W...
In a secret undisclosed location in the Southern Hemisphere, a number of the most successful and innovative entrepreneurs and Chief Executive Officers on the planet ...
What The Mind Believes, The Body Achieve...
Mohamed Marouf and the Le Club de natation Calac hosted an international conference on open water swimming at its annual distance swimming competition in Montréal, ...
With A Valiant Heart, Nothing Is Impossi...
Back in 1955, the young Gilles Potvin peeked over the shoulder of a big-city newspaper reporter from Montreal. The reporter was covering the unprecedented crossing ...
Clocks And Clouds In Swimming And Triath...
Pace clocks and stop watches that carefully measure time dominate training and competitions among pool swimmers around the world. Interval training, best times and qualification ...
Open Water Swimmers Have The Right Stuff...
Without a doubt, open water swimmers - especially channel swimmers - are renowned not only for their physical strengths and stamina, but also for their ...
Text Messages From Open Water Swimmers
LOL, CU, UR, and all kinds of abbreviations, acronyms, emoticons, smileys, onomatopoeic and stylized spellings are used all over the Internet, in forums, emails and ...
Acclimate, Not Accumulate In The Open Wa...
We occasionally hear of open water swimmers who want to gain weight for their upcoming marathon swim or channel swim. They talk about eating ice ...
Swimming On The Professional Marathon Swimming Circuit
March 31st, 2013 | professional marathon swimming | No Comment
Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.
Lexie Kelly from Long Beach, California explains first-hand about her second race as a professional marathon swimmer at the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa ...
The Value Of Safety And Preparedness In The Open Water
March 31st, 2013 | Open Water Safety | No Comment
Who said this and what was being referred to?
"...the greatest lesson to be learned which I have always felt, is the value of safety and preparedness. The ocean is an ...
The History, Tradition And Pageantry of Epiphany Swimming
March 31st, 2013 | Open Water Swim | No Comment
In Europe, there is an old church tradition on January 19th of each year according to the Orthodox Christian calendar. In some southern and eastern European countries people dive for ...
A Love Story – Finding Fate In The Open Water
March 30th, 2013 | open water swimmers | No Comment
Mohamed Marouf is a former professional marathon swimmer who was born in Cairo, Egypt. Through this swimming skills, he was able to compete in the pro circuit for several years, ...
Oh Dam The Water
March 30th, 2013 | Open Water Safety | No Comment
Nejib Belhedi completed a two-way 6 km swim from the Eastern side of the dam to Dream Island in 5°C water on March 6th.
True to his spirit, he finished with ...
Coast To Coast Boast Returns To Orange County
March 30th, 2013 | Open Water Swimming | No Comment
Craig Taylor and Scott Zornig are turning back the clock to 2001. The pair did a stage swim along the entire 40-mile coast of Orange County in Southern California.
The pair ...
Pack Swimming – The Collective Behavior Of Triathletes And Open Water Swimmers
March 30th, 2013 | Open Water Swimming | No Comment
The start horn goes off and hundreds of swimmers and triathletes enter the water.
Like schools of fish, the humans swarm all over the course in close proximity to one another. ...
Casting A Straight Line Out In The Sea
March 30th, 2013 | Open Water Swimming | No Comment
We have seen open water swimmers fighting valiantly through huge seas with rolling swells larger than two-story buildings. Channel swimmers in the Kaiwi Channel between Molokai and Oahu in Hawaii, ...
Distance Matters In Tampa Bay
March 29th, 2013 | Tampa Bay Maratho Swim | No Comment
Ron Collins not only talks the talk, he walks the walk.
Collins is a waterman through and through. He is always around the ocean, relentlessly energetic as an athlete, race director, ...
A Deep-Seated Artist, Visionary And Explorer
March 29th, 2013 | open water swimmers | No Comment
The U.S. government just stopped the National Undersea Research Program due to a variety of budgetary constraints.
But there is a scientifically-oriented artist who is helping support continued deep-sea research and ...
Greatest Feeling In The World Outside Your Comfort Zone
March 29th, 2013 | open water swimmers | No Comment
Who said this and what was being referred to?
"...is the most challenging facet of the sport. It is the greatest feeling in the world, being in the ocean when it ...
Tom Shields, From Body Surfing To Streamlining
March 29th, 2013 | body surfing | No Comment
Tom Shields, a former junior lifeguard and the record holder of the Huntington Beach Pier Swim, is looking forward to moving on from NCAA championships to becoming a professional swimmer ...
Early Birds In Las Vegas Man The Dam
March 28th, 2013 | Open Water Swim | No Comment
Kara Robertson has put open water swimming on the map in the middle of the American desert.
She is hosting the U.S. Masters Swimming 10K National Open Water Swimming Championships along ...
Tom Hanks, Shrimp And Squid In The Open Water
March 28th, 2013 | OWS Feature | No Comment
Tom Hanks in the Academy Awards Best Movie Forrest Gump said, "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Gump's mother could ...
Mother – Father Relationships In The Open Water
March 27th, 2013 | open water | No Comment
Mother Nature and Father Time are two factors that generally do not run concurrent with the athletic performance and physiological nature of humans. That is, both Mother Nature and Father ...
Swimming On The Professional Marathon Swimming Circuit
March 27th, 2013 | Marathon Swims | No Comment
Part 2 continued from here.
Lexie Kelly from Long Beach, California explains first-hand about her first race as a professional marathon swimmer at the Maratón Acuática Internactional Ciudad de Rosario in ...
Swimming On The Professional Marathon Swimming Circuit
March 27th, 2013 | Marathon Swims | No Comment
Competing in the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit is an honor and opportunity that is not available to all the estimated 8,500 active marathon swimmers around the world. ...
BCT Gdynia Marathon Recalls The 1960′s And 1970′s
March 27th, 2013 | Olympic marathon swim | No Comment
Mikołaj Nałęcz- Nieniewski and Tomasz Pąchalski announced the 19.5 km BCT Gdynia Marathon which will be held in Gdynia (Poland) on August 23-25, 2013.
The contestants will swim 19.5 km from ...
New Ways To Fight Box Jellyfish To Be Announced
March 27th, 2013 | open water swimmers | No Comment
"This swim is the most epic marathon swim in the whole entire world right now," said Chloë McCardel during a CNN interview on the Early Start with John Berman & ...
Relaying In The Open Water – Funky Freestyling
March 26th, 2013 | Open Water Swim | No Comment
The traditional channel relay rules are strict and rightly so. Individual relay members must continue to swim in the same rotation and must swim for the same specific period of ...
Darren Miller’s Rock Solid Six Pack
March 25th, 2013 | open water swimmers | No Comment
With his crossing of the Cook Strait last week, Darren Miller has accomplished six of the seven channels of the Oceans Seven challenge.
His 10 hour 42 minute crossing was done ...
When Leaders Go To Retreat And Do Open Water
March 25th, 2013 | OWS Feature | No Comment
In a secret undisclosed location in the Southern Hemisphere, a number of the most successful and innovative entrepreneurs and Chief Executive Officers on the planet are on a networking retreat ...
I Got Stung By A Jellyfish – Tell Your Story
March 25th, 2013 | Open Water Swim | No Comment
If you have been stung by a jellyfish, there is a website for you: IGotStung. Whether you had a bad sting or just a little sting, dozens of stings or ...
Marwan Ghazawi, A Career Interrupted, A Career Done Well
March 25th, 2013 | open water swimmers | No Comment
Marwan Ghazawi is a name most contemporary marathon swimmers do not remember. However, the sturdily built Egyptian with a flawless stroke was a force to be reckoned with in the ...
What The Mind Believes, The Body Achieves
March 24th, 2013 | OWS Feature | No Comment
Mohamed Marouf and the Le Club de natation Calac hosted an international conference on open water swimming at its annual distance swimming competition in Montréal, Canada.
Dr. Abou Elella Ade El ...
Finishing A Marathon Swim Barefoot And Barrel-Chested
March 24th, 2013 | Marathon Swims | No Comment
During the first half of the 1996 Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe - Coronda race in Argentina, Mohamed Marouf started to have shoulder problems early in the 57 km FINA ...
