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CC photo #238: A pretty cool support boat
Used at the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk, owned by the local fire department, looks like a Pioner Multi complete with winch-lowerable bow door.
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CC photo #237: 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk start position
My wife took this photo just before the start of the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk. Our oldest daughter right in front of her, filming the event. Team work ! :-)
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CC photo #236: 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk Participants
11 swimmers ready for a cold 200 meter sprint across the bay of KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, on Sjómannadagurin 2012 (the annual “Seamen’s Day”).
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CC photo #235: Extreme rower Livar Nysted giving free rides to kids on a tiny viking ship
Funny and most adorable sight in KlaksvÃk, last Saturday, Faroese rowing legend Livar Nysted giving free rides to kids on a small Faroese rowing boat that he refitted to resemble a viking ship. Silly hat and all, still this guy was part of the 4-man-crew that in 2010 set the still standing transatlantic rowing world…
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CC photo #234: That feeling
The joy of jumping into an industrial harbor, two young sea swimmers almost ready for their dip into the dark and cold waters of KlaksvÃk, Saturday, extremely salty with a splash of oil, bottom nowhere in sight.
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CC photo #233: Me trying to get steady shots on a crowded fish farm ring
A photo from the 2012 Swim Across The Bay in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, yesterday. First swimmer Alvi already out of the water and the second LÃv on her way. Not so easy, trying to get steady video on a relatively narrow fish farm ring, with people moving about and around me, and waves in general…
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CC photo #232: Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk 2012 Medal Winners
Medal winners of the 2012 annual open water swim across the bay of KlaksvÃk, today. A video is on its way :-)
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CC photo #231: The 7 participants of Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012
Behold the brave 7 that dared to endure the 2012 edition of “Nólsoyarsvimjingin”, the 15th annual swim from Tórshavn to Nólsoy in the Faroe Islands, about 5K from the rocks they are standing on to the island in the background. They all made it across, Erlendur Simonsen to the right the only one to have…
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CC photo #230: International team GoPro on Nólsoyarfjørð
A journalist from IMG / Trans World Sport filming Cecilia Wigant Eysturdal with a GoPro on a boom during the “Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012” open water race from Tórshavn to Nólsoy on August 11th, 2012. Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Federation also filming her in the background with his, and me photographing the situation with…