Category: Open Water
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Man dies at Great North Swim event on Windermere
Read for instance The BBC and The Independent A 52-year-old man has died after competing in a swimming challenge in the Lake District on Friday afternoon. He was flown to hospital by air ambulance “as a result of a medical emergency†after the incident during the Great North Swim in Windemere, Cumbria Police confirmed. The…
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History making swim for teenager Dan Canta
See 7News A Melbourne teenager has made history by becoming the youngest person ever to swim between Port Phillip Heads. Kristy Mayr reports.
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Chronic pain sufferer Katie Pumphrey completes 15-mile open water swim
See The Washington Post For the ensuing eight hours and 45 minutes, Pumphrey, 26, would fight fatigue and nausea in the water, pain in her back and, perhaps most difficult, the mental strain of trying to propel herself across the river and back. When she finished, she said, she stood on the beach and cried.…
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Cool: Swimming With Icebergs in Michigan
See NBC News While the air temperature in Michigan may have hit the 80’s, it’s still not warm enough to melt the thick ice build-up on Lake Superior, where the water remains a chilly 37 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The ‘Clean Cross’ swim – Hong Kong to Macau
Read Sail-World Last weekend Simon Holliday, 35, set a record for the crossing of the Pearl River Delta in a time of 10 hours, 20 minutes, and 30 seconds, beating the time of Beijing swimmer Zhang Jian who swam across in 10 hours 30 minutes in 2005. Watch this video on YouTube
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England, Scotland and Wales swimmers go head to head for Battle of SwimBritain
Press release courtesy of dna Four of England’s brightest swim stars teamed up to take on Scotland and Wales this weekend to complete the British Gas SwimBritain challenge. Watch this video on YouTube London 2012 Olympian Aimee Willmott joined forces with British Gas Championship multi-gold medallist swimmers James Guy, Siobhan Marie-O’Connor and breaststroke swimmer Adam…
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Marnaton eDreams Barcelona
See Marnaton On the 10th May, the season of Marnaton challenges opened with a new event, the first Marnaton eDreams Barcelona. A 2 km challenge off the beach of Sant Sebastià , consisting of a women’s individual event, a men’s relay event and a relay event, focused on making open water swimming more popular. Watch this video…
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Swimmer “on her last legs” dramatically rescued by RNLI
Read Plymouth Herald A swimmer “on her last legs” was dramatically rescued by lifeguards this afternoon. The exhausted woman was heard screaing for help after she got into difficulty off Tregonhawke beach in Whitsand Bay at around noon. RNLI lifeguards patrolling the beach and the Looe lifeboat crew quickly sprung into action. […] “As I…
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Lost In Jellyfish Lake
Via PetaPixel Originally filmed a year ago, the video has been given new life by GoPro, who decided to pick it up, do some color grading and other edits, and repost it on their own YouTube channel where it’s gotten over 150,000 views in the last 2 days. Watch this video on YouTube The original…