Month: September 2020
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Swim with Seals
Swim with seals: “Join the experienced team from Offshore Adventures for an experience of a lifetime. This one and a half hour adventure starts with an adrenaline pumping beach launch into the sea, followed by an amazing boat ride along the scenic coastline to the Cape fur seal colony. There you will get to snorkel…
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Meet Elena Krawzow, German swimming star and first Paralympic athlete on Playboy cover *EXPLICIT*
Paralympic swimming star Elena Krawzow achieved another victory but this time outside the pool, after getting on the cover of the German Playboy magazine’s October edition. On Wednesday, the athlete was seen swimming at her training session in Berlin’s Sportforum Hohenschonhausen. She later skimmed through the famous magazine she did a cover for, going through…
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Ullswater – 6-hour English Channel Qualifying Swim 2020
Ullswater Swim Place provides boat support for length of lake swims One-Way and Two-Way. Plus qualifying swims for the English Channel.
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Swimming in Waves | Open Water Wild Swimming in Scotland
Swimming in waves is an adventure in itself. We didn’t go far but it was an exciting swim. Please swim within your abilities and choose places/conditions where it is safe for you. Understand allow for the effects of tidal streams, wind, and other environmental and objective hazards.
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Unlikely Olympian ‘Eric the Eel’ reflects on his fame 20 years on | AFP
Twenty years ago, Eric ‘the Eel’ Moussambani became a global star after swimming a 100-meter freestyle alone in the Olympic pool in Sydney so slowly that it appeared he might sink. Moussambani was the first swimmer from Equatorial Guinea, a nation with a population at the time of less than 1 million, to compete in…
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Inside with Brett Hawke: Katie McLaughlin
Katie McLaughlin is a member of the LA Current. She specializes in 100-200 Free and 100-200 Fly. She swam for historical Mission Viejo growing up and the University of California in college.
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Migrants jump overboard from NGO vessel to swim to Sicily coast
Dozens of migrants reportedly jumped overboard from a vessel belonging to NGO Open Arms to try and reach the Italian coast by swimming. According to Open Arms, 75 migrants became frustrated with the boat being stranded for days off the coast of Palermo and tried to swim the rest of the way. The ship was…