Category: Open Water
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US tourists swim for nearly 14 hours after ship sinks near St. Lucia
Read The Washington Post Dan Suski, a 30-year-old business owner and information technology expert from San Francisco, had been wrestling a 200-pound marlin in rough seas with help from his sister, Kate Suski, a 39-year-old architect of Seattle. He was still trying to reel in the fish when water rushed into the cabin and flooded…
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Poor swimmer rescues 5-year old girl from rip current
Natallie Porter can’t swim and got caught in a rip current off Coquina Beach Saturday. Isaac Espinoza dove in to save her.
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Swimmer dies after being rescued from Dublin Bay
Read Irish Times The alarm was raised at about 11.20am yesterday when the 35-year-old went swimming off Dalkey Island and did not return. A major search operation was launched and the Garda Water Unit pulled the man from the sea south of Sorrento Terrace. The man was airlifted to Tallaght Hospital, where he later died.
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Jinja set for Africa’s maiden ice swimming event
Read NewVision – Uganda’s Leading Daily Jinja will go down in history as the first African city to host the Ice Swimming championships due May 11 at the Nile resort pool. The championships will see the water temperature in the swimming pool lowered to about 10° C, a rare phenomenon in Uganda, for the championships…
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Swimmer finds explosive at Blue Hole
See krqe.com New Mexico State Police are investigating an explosive device found in the Blue Hole diving area in Santa Rosa. At about 11 a.m. the swimmer called police to report finding what he believed to be a bomb in the recreation site popular with scuba divers. Swimmer finds explosive at Blue Hole
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Marine Scientists use Google Street View to share images
Philippe Cousteau joins scientists using Google Street View to share their incredible underwater images online. See also Catlin Seaview Survey.
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Is this some kind of Michael Phelps effect on golf?
See Mashable Danish pro Andreas Harto takes things to a new level in this video, removing his pants (along with shoes and socks) to chip his way out from the edge of a water hazard at a tournament in Morocco on Sunday
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Swimmers brave freezing London lake
You’ve got to love the line out of the lake *shiver* http://youtu.be/_vECpCrn83A