Category: Open Water
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Easter Lake is cleaned up and back open for swimming, fishing and boating
It’s taken six years to dredge, drain and clean Easter Lake on Des Moines’ south side. It’s now open for recreation like swimming and boating.
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River Severn swimmer hospitalised after ‘swallowing sewage’
A nurse in a 220-mile challenge to swim the length of the River Severn is in hospital after “swallowing sewage”. Melissa Compton, who had suffered hypothermia and fatigue during the swim, said the sickness bug was a blip and she was determined to finish. The 39-year-old was taken ill in Gloucester on Sunday and is in…
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Dutch swimmer raises nearly 4 million Euros to fight cancer
For more than a century – the Eleven Cities Race has been part of Dutch sporting folklore. Ice skaters would travel along frozen waterways – over a course that’s nearly two-hundred kilometres long. It hasn’t taken place since the late nineties – with some blaming global warming. Now – one competitor has decided to resurrect…
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Ocean swimming changes skin microbiome, could raise infection risk
Ocean water exposure changes the human skin microbiome and could increase the likelihood of infection after swimming, according to findings presented at ASM Microbe. “Our research demonstrated that ocean water washed off normal bacteria and simultaneously deposited ocean-borne bacteria onto the skin,†Marisa Chattman Nielsen, MS, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine,…
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Body Of Missing Swimmer Recovered From Hudson River
Police sources say crews recovered the body in the river near the Fort Tryon area Tuesday morning. The swimmer was identified as 67-year-old Charles Van Der Horst, a renowned AIDS researcher from North Carolina. CBS2’s Chris Wragge reports.
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2019 FINA Open Water World Championships Team USA Announcement
Nine open water swimmers will be heading to Yeosu, South Korea this July to represent Team USA at the 2019 FINA Open Water World Championships. Four different events — the 5k, 10k, 25k and 5k team relay — will take place from July 13-19, with athletes vying for World Championships medals as well as a…
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Retired UNC professor presumed dead after disappearing during 120-mile NY swim
Rescuers swept the Hudson River again on Sunday for a N.C. Moral Monday activist from Chapel Hill who disappeared Friday during a 120-mile marathon race. The New York Post reported Charles van der Horst, 67, vanished on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge around 3:10 p.m. Friday. The search is now a recovery, said…
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Hundreds turn out for Flowers Sea Swim
Around 900 swimmers of all shapes, sizes and ambitions, took to the waters off Seven Mile Beach Saturday for the latest instalment of one of Cayman’s favourite sporting events.
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