Category: Open Water
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Aqua Polar Gym 2014
“Some in Geneva, Switzerland start the New Year with a swim in freezing Lake Geneva / lac Léman.”
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Sean Conway: How I swam the length of Britain
Sean Conway describing his swim the length of Britain, from Land’s end to John O’Groats.
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Polar Bear Swim 2014 Ottawa
“Crazy c-c-c-c-cold people jumping in the Ottawa River in minus 30 degree Celsius with windchill!”
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New Zealand swimmers break record for World’s largest skinny dip
Read for instance Mail Online (photos obviously NSFW) Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world’s largest skinny dip. Basking in the glow of a warm summer’s day down-under, the 745 nude swimmers swarmed into the water on the…
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Swimmers get chance to swim with whale shark
“Getting the chance to see a whale shark doesn’t come around often.” Come on, you guys, you are scaring away the krill ! ;-) Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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Ben Miller almost drowned after ignoring warnings not to swim off a Caribbean beach
Read The Mirror TV detective Ben Miller has revealed he almost drowned after ignoring warnings not to swim off a Caribbean beach while filming hit BBC series Death In Paradise . The actor got into difficulty when he waded into the sea in Guadeloupe and ended up “rolled into the waves and thrashed to within an inch of…
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Two men drown, five rescued after Docherty Island swim attempt
Read ABC News Police say they were contacted at about 7:30pm (ACDT) after a group of seven men got into difficulty. The men went missing off the coast near the community of Wadeye, about 400 kilometres south west of Darwin yesterday evening. Police say the group drove to the island at low tide, but when…
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Taiwanese man who can’t swim survives 60 hours adrift in sea
Read The Japan Times A Taiwanese man has miraculously survived a 60-hour ordeal drifting in rough seas off the island’s east coast even though he cannot swim, local media reported Monday. Tseng Lien-fa was catching baby eels on a beach in Hualien County early Friday when he was swept away by an unexpectedly large wave.…
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Microsoft salutes the Heroic Women of 2013, including Diana Nyad
“These heroic women show what spirit, courage, and perseverance can achieve. May their bravery inspire us in 2014 and beyond.” http://youtu.be/ZyB7bzYRoqY Image courtesy of Fortune Live Media, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0