Saiful Islam Rasel Completes First Two-way Crossing Of The Bangla Channel0 (0)
Saiful Islam Rasel completed the first 32.2 km two-way crossing Of The Bangla Channel
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Saiful Islam Rasel Completes First Two-way Crossing Of The Bangla Channel
Kshitindra Chandra Baisya, Swimming All Day And All Night0 (0)
Kshitindra Chandra Baisya, Swimming All Day And All Night Courtesy of WOWSA, Kangsha River, Bangladesh. Kshitindra Chandra Baisya, named one of the 2019 World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Men, attempted and completed four non-stop swims of at least 24 hours in duration during his prolific career. Two of his 24-Hour Club marathon swims were
Channel Swimmer Milko Van Gool Is Land-locked0 (0)
Milko van Gool is on the move again. The Dutch open water swimmer completed the English Channel in 2011 (10 hours 22 minutes), crossed Lake Malawi in 2013, and set the men's record for crossing the North Channel from Ireland to Scotland this July in 10 hours 34 minutes. Professionally, van Gool is employed by the European Commission and has been assigned a
Where Swimming Is Effectively The Essence Of Life0 (0)
Dr. Khwaja Muhammed Sultanul Aziz is a luminary in the global aquatics and marine sciences communities. The Bangladesh native is the Honorary Lifetime Secretary General of the Asia Swimming Federation and former member of the FINA Sports Medicine Committee. He is a renowned microbiologist who is a Fellow with the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences who has a
International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim This Week0 (0)
The Everest Academy in Bangladesh will hold its first international marathon swim this week on March 17th: the 16.1K International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim across the Bangla Channel. In addition to the swimmers who will do the one-way crossing, Lipton Sarkar and English Channel swimmer Milko van Gool (shown on left) from the Netherlands will attempt a
Sight Unseen … Dreams Realized In The Bangla Channel0 (0)
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. bdnews24.com, Bangladesh’s online news source, reported that ten teenagers (five boys and five girls), including some who had never seen the ocean before, completed a 14.5K swim across the Bay of Bengal on February 18th. After starting on Shahpari Island of Teknaf, which has one of the longest beaches in
