Tag: swim streamer

The Year of Living Ep!cally

The Epic Swim 2020 relay consisted of Nick Hobson, Jon Ornée, Dave Ornée, Jeremy Sall, Matt Smith, and Todd Suttor who completed a 91.3 km mid-lake crossing of Lake Michigan from Wisconsin to Michigan, in August 2020 after 20 hours 50 minutes here (The Year of Living Ep!cally).

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Things We Ponder In The Open Water

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The use of swim streamers in channel swims and marathon swims has been debated by a few. But, at the heart of the debate, we wonder, "What is really the practical difference between a channel swimmer who uses a swim streamer and a channel swimmer who swims between two kayakers or between a kayaker and a

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Swim Streamers In Open Water Swimming

Courtesy of WOWSA, from the Tsugaru Channel in Japan to the Straits of Florida in the Caribbean Sea. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming has described and covered swims that use a swim streamer including swims by Stephen Redmond, Darren Miller, Adam Walker, Chris Kraus, Brian Ross, and Rick Gaenzle across the Tsugaru Channel in Japan to Diana Nyad in

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Streaming Straight In The Open Water

Photo courtesy of Christi Barli in the Florida Straits with Diana Nyad. In the Marathon Swimmers Forum, there was criticism of Diana Nyad for use of a swim streamer during her attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida. The criticism ranged from a discussion that it aided her in propulsion to swim streamers are not allowed by other channel swimming

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