Category: Open Water
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Verify: Can COVID-19 survive in ocean water? Here’s what a professor says
News 8 reached out to Dr. Charles Gerba, Professor of Environmental Virology at the University of Arizona. Gerba said at this point, no one can say for sure. “We don’t have a lot of data on it right now,” said Gerba. Gerba believes the possibility of catching COVID-19 while swimming in the ocean is unlikely.…
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How and Why to Sight in Open Water Swimming
This video aims to explain and demonstrate the ‘how’ and ‘why’ to sight in open water swimming. The thing is, any kind of head movement slows a swimmer down and that includes breathing. Whilst breathing is non-negotiable after a few strokes, sighting is an optional add on, purely to look ahead and see where you…
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Swim therapy in Australia as beaches reopen
It may have been a long wait to get back into the water, but for 77-year-old Carol Raleigh, her return to ocean swimming was the “antidote” to get through the coronavirus pandemic.
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Plymouth Open Water Swimmer Inducted into Minnesota Swimming Hall of Fame
Karen Zemlin, 52, is the first open-water swimmer named to the Minnesota State Swimming Hall of Fame. In August of last year, she posted the fastest time ever for a woman over 50 in swimming the English Channel.
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Oceans Seven swimmer Stephen Redmond on WOWSA Live
International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee Stephen Redmond takes about his historic Oceans Seven achievement with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison on WOWSA Live
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Coronavirus: Like a long-distance swimmer, we must endure
Lewis Pugh, an ocean advocate who has swum in icy oceans and turbulent seas, knows about endurance and the elasticity of time. In a podcast late last year he spoke about the challenge of long-distance swims, and when I heard his words last week they resonated powerfully. ”The thing about long-distance swimming is how the…
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Journey to Tokyo: Ashley Twichell
Andrew Marden tells us about Olympian Ashley Twichell. In 2021, she will be oldest U.S. Olympic rookie swimmer since 1908!
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Sarah Thomas and Ned Denison on WOWSA Live
4-way English Channel swimmer Sarah Thomas talked about her marathon and channel swimming career with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison on the 30 April 2020 edition of WOWSA Live.
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Solo Cross Ullswater Swim April 2020
11.7 degrees C. Swimming across Ullswater back home. During lockdown with no other boats on the lake. Video by my son Zachary Hill. I guide swimmers on Cross Lake Swims at www.ullswaterswimplace.com