Category: Open Water
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Swimmer rescued by Minehead RNLI
Read This Is The West Country A swimmer who got into difficulties during a Sunday morning dip off Minehead couldn’t have chosen a better moment – for there were three lifeboats in the area at the time. The teenager found himself being carried out to sea by a falling tide yesterday (May 4), and tried to attract the…
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Diving Under The Ice with Zaragoza’s Fire Brigade
Diving under the ice with The Water Rescue Unit of Zaragoza’s Fire Brigade. “Buceadores de la Unidad de Rescate Acuático del Cuerpo de Bomberos del Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza”. Awesome!
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Don’t drink the mud: Tough Mudder participants fall ill after swimming through feces-tainted water
Read The Vancouver Sun It turns out the toughest obstacle of a Tough Mudder-style race might not be dodging live electrical wires, hoisting logs or leaping over a wall of flames. It might be the nasty stomach bug that can come from swallowing the muddy water. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a memo Friday warning…
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Police warn people swimming in Cedar River, Iowa
See CBS2IOWA Cedar Rapids police say they’re receiving reports of people swimming in the Cedar River. Swimming in the Cedar River is not allowed due to its fast-moving water and debris. Police say the Cedar’s cooler water also put would-be swimmers at an increased risk of shock and hypothermia.
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Swimmer Adam Walker conquered Cook Strait with dolphins as ‘bodyguards’
Read TVNZ He was told he wouldn’t have to worry about sharks when swimming Cook Strait. Then British swimmer Adam Walker looked down. A two-metre beast, possibly a great white, was swimming beneath him. It could have been why he had just been joined by a pod of dolphins, which have been known to protect…
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Lael Profitt plans to become the youngest ever to complete the Triple Crown of Ocean Swimming
You can support her efforts here on indiegogo Lael Profitt, who is currently 15 years old, will swim the 20 mile Catalina Channel, completing the first leg of her larger goal: becoming the youngest person ever to successfully complete the Triple Crown of Ocean Swimming: Crossing the Catalina Channel; Circling Manhattan; and Crossing the English…
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Agave fundraiser honors English Channel swimmer Allison DeFrancesco
Read VailDaily When doctors declared Allison DeFrancesco in remission from cancer at the age of 21, they told her to “You’re done (with treatment.) Go be normal.†“I thought, ‘What does that mean?’†said DeFrancesco, who was first diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a collegiate swimmer at New York University. She spent a couple years…
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British swimmer Adam Walker to tackle Cook Strait
See video on TVNZ A British tourist is getting set to take the plunge and swim the Cook Strait tomorrow as part of an attempt to swim seven oceans around the world. Adam Walker will make the notorious sixteen nautical mile stretch down the Cook Strait as part of the Ocean’s Seven challenge – which…
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Sewage Levels In Rio 2016 Waters Have Olympic Experts Worried
Read The Atlantic Guanabara Bay, the site of several 2016 Olympic sailing events, has 78 times Brazil’s legally allowed limit of fecal pollution, and 195 times the U.S. limit. In addition to human waste, the bay is also a receptacle for trash from ships and the bay’s 15 adjacent communities, as well as toxic runoff from a former landfill.…