Category: Open Water
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Swimming safety in Lake Michigan
After three drowning in three weeks, Carson Wilkinson, a master diver, offers safety tips for swimming in Lake Michigan. Watch this video on YouTube
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Swim the Arctic Circle: Open water swimming competition: Torne Tornio River Pello Övertorneå Lapland
Travel Pello in Finland tourism video: Swim the Arctic Circle – Open water swimming competition: Torne / Tornio River in Pello and in ÖvertorneÃ¥ Lapland (Finland and Sweden). Cross the Arctic Circle, border of Finland and Sweden and time zone border by swimming in July every year. More info: http://swimac.eu/ & http://travelpello.fi/en/ Watch this video…
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The World’s Deepest Swimming Pool…?
Rubislaw Quarry in Aberdeen. 142m – 465ft in depth. Scottish swimmers & triathletes took part in the first ever Rubislaw “Open Water” Swim. The water had been tested and safety kayaks were on hand for the organised swim. Big thanks to Hugh Black and Mike Adams who organised the event and invited me along. Much…
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Avram Iancu – The Danube Swimmer Week Six
On June 20th 2017, Avram Iancu, the Romanian librarian who established a national record in 2016 by swimming the English Channel without a neoprene suit, takes up a new challenge. His dream is to swim along the entire Danube. 2860 km, 60 days, 10 hours of swimming per day, no thermal protection. Watch this video…
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A river-swimmer’s paradise in the heart of England
Preconceptions about places we’ve never been are formed in a multitude of ways: what we read, watch or hear about it, and sometimes even the people who are from there – whether we like them or not. Occasionally, there are areas we have no idea about. For me, that was a section in the heart…
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Researcher will swim entire length of Tennessee River to promote water quality awareness
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Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey from City to Sea
An imaginary journey swimming from city to sea, inspired by Roger Deakin’s wonderful wild swimming book, Waterlog. If you haven’t read it, I would urge you to buy a copy: http://amzn.to/2uaQy4E Watch this video on YouTube
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Avram Iancu – The Danube Swimmer Week Five
On June 20th 2017, Avram Iancu, the Romanian librarian who established a national record in 2016 by swimming the English Channel without a neoprene suit, takes up a new challenge. His dream is to swim along the entire Danube. 2860 km, 60 days, 10 hours of swimming per day, no thermal protection. Week five Dangerous…
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Over 2,000 swimmers cross Istanbul’s Bosphorus from Asia to Europe
More than 2,200 swimmers participated in the 29th Samsung Cross-Continental Swimming Race from Asia to Europe across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul. Some 2,277 swimmers from 49 countries swam the course, which started at Kanlica pier on the Asian side and ended six-and-a-half kilometres (4 miles) later in front of Kurucesme Cemil Topuzlu Park on…