Category: Open Water
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How Hard is the English Channel Swim? Marathon Swimmer Catherine Breed | The #AskASwimPro Show
Meet MySwimPro Ambassador Catherine Breed! She’s a record-holding marathon swimmer who has swum the length of Lake Tahoe, the English Channel, the North Channel and has her sights set on the Oceans 7 series.
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Thinking About Open Water Swimming? Here’s Some Advice for Starting Out
With COVID-19 lockdown, you may have picked up new hobbies that could range from just about anything like art or swimming. Buzz60’s Mercer Morrison has the story.
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George Taplin becomes first swimmer to complete 13 Lakes Challenge in 3 days – all for Just a Drop
Twenty-year-old Sheffield University graduate, George Taplin has become the first person to complete the grueling 13 Lakes Challenge in just three days—swimming some 71km across all of the publicly accessible lakes in the Lake District. George raised over £4000 for Just a Drop’s safe water, sanitation and hygiene projects as well as raised awareness for…
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Long-distance swimmer gets close-up look at pod of orcas | Bright side
Debbie Collingwood and two of her friends had a whale of an experience in B.C. waters as the trio nervously watched a group of orcas move closer and closer. Here’s a roundup of that story and other good news, on Monday, August 10.
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Older women swim length of Lake George in relay dubbed ‘menopause marathon’
Kate O’Keefe said, “This was easy,” just a few minutes after finishing a relay swim of Lake George. When you’ve delivered roughly 8,000 babies, apparently the rest is easy. The recently retired OB/GYN rounded up a few of her friends last week and urged them to swim the 32-mile length of the lake in one-and-a-half…
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Long distance swimmer gets close-up look at pod of orcas in West Vancouver
Long-distance swimmer Debbie Collingwood was supposed to be swimming the English Channel this summer, but on Sunday morning got the experience of a lifetime in B.C. waters during a three-hour swim near Bowen Island. “We came around the island at Whytcliffe [Park]Â … and there was a pod of orcas … coming straight for us,” she…
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Swimming in Pécs Lake in Orfű
On 2nd August 2020 Open water swimming competition in Orfű was organized in Pécs Lake. There are two distances: 1.8 km = swimming across the lake and 4.2 km =swimming around the lake. Orfű is a very famous touristic place, it is located next to Pécs City and it is surrounded by hills. This is…
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Europe’s longest open-water swimming contest
Under cloudless summer skies, thousands of competitors plunged into the balmy waters of Balaton on Saturday to swim across Central Europe’s largest freshwater lake.
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Pete Hegseth joins Navy SEALs for swim across Hudson River to honor veterans
‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-host Pete Hegseth and former Navy SEALS swam across the Hudson River to honor veterans.