Category: Open Water
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BBC News – Adventurer Sean Conway in coastal swim challenge
Adventurer Sean Conway has reached the 300-mile mark in his bid to become the first person to swim the entire length of Great Britain.
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US swimmer Diana Nyad attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida
US endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is again trying to become the first person to swim from the Cuban capital, Havana, to Florida without a shark cage. She is halfway through now, farther than ever before, follow her progress on diananyad.com
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SkanRaces: Start of the 2013 Escape from the Judge swim race
Swimmers take off from their starting point in Skaneateles Lake, beginning their one-mile swim to Clift Park in Skaneateles during the Escape from the Judge open water swim (from Sunday, Sept. 1).
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Lynne Cox, “Open Water Swimming Manual” | Talks At Google
Open Water Swimming Manual: An Expert’s Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers. Lynne Cox has set open water swimming records across the world, and now she has focused her decades-long experience and expertise into this definitive guide to swimming. Cox methodically addresses what is needed to succeed at and enjoy open water swimming,…
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The Other Shore | Diana Nyad | (2013) Official Trailer
“The Other Shore follows world record holder and legendary swimmer Diana Nyad as she comes out of a thirty-year retirement to re-attempt an elusive dream: swimming 103 miles non-stop from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage. Her past and present collide in her obsession with a feat that nobody has ever…
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Video: Diana begins her final Cuba Swim
“With a shout-out of “Courage!” (pronounced in French), Diana Nyad jumped into the water from the shore a short way off Marina Hemingway in Cuba for the start of her epic swim to Florida at 8:59:02 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013.”
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Lotte Friis & Anton Ipsen win a very wet 2013 Round Christiansborg
The Danish Swimming Federation describes in a press release tonight how a record-number of about 2000 swimmers participated in the 2013 Round Christiansborg open water event in Copenhagen today, that first was delayed 2 hours because of worries about the water quality after a sewage overflow caused by a downpour the night before, and then…
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Diana Nyad ready to start her 5th attempt to swim from Cuba to USA
See for instance CNNÂ and diananyad.com If Diana Nyad never realizes her dream of swimming the Florida straits, it won’t be for lack of trying. The 64-year-old says she will begin her fifth and last bid to swim from Cuba to the United States early Saturday. Previous attempts were thwarted by dehydration, ocean currents and excruciating…
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Water quality delays, moves London, Copenhagen open water events
Two major open water events in European capitals today had to be either moved or delayed because of water quality. In Britain, the Great London Swim was moved from the Royal Victoria Dock to its contingency venue, Millwall Dock, as unexpected activity related to construction work in the immediate area has resulted in the reduction…