Category: Winter Swimming
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Swimming hole at Turner Falls closes for season after two more drownings occur
The swimming hole at Turner Falls Park has closed about a month early after two more people drowned at the popular tourist spot 70 miles south of Oklahoma City. The swimming hole near Davis, which claims Oklahoma’s largest waterfall, closed for a few hours Monday, along with the Blue Hole diving board and slide. The…
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Champion ice swimmer drowns in Yenisei River
Nikolay Petshak, 64, who swam from Russia to America, died in ‘accident’ in river where he carried the Olympic flame. Petshak had been an ice swimmer for 40 years and he drowned while exercising in summer in the Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk region, confirmed local sporting officials. He was famous for enduring temperatures of 2 or 3C…
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Doctor Dissects the Wim Hof Method – Cold Hard Science Analysis
I’m a cardiologist and academic and this is an overly detailed look at the Wim Hof Method. Watch this video on YouTube
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Simon Thomas Takes Part in Cold Water Swimming | This Morning
In the second episode of our new wellbeing series, Simon and his son Ethan, visit their local lido to swim together, a place where they can get away from everything and be together as father and son. Simon then takes part in some cold water swimming in the River Ouse. The practice is hugely beneficial…
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Ontario diver uses axe to escape ice in Georgian Bay
An Ontario freediver who has been under the ice more than once freed himself from icy waters in Georgian Bay last month using only an axe. Video taken from both under and above the water shows Egor Nesterenko of Toronto as he uses an axe to slowly chip away at the ice, with two of…
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Building A 0.2°C Competition Swimming Pool In The Arctic
Event organizer Dmitry Blokhin provided this compilation video of the preparations that were required to host the International Ice Swimming Association 3rd World Championship and Ice Swimming Arctic Cup held in Semenovskoe Lake in Murmansk, Russia between March 15th – 17th 2019. See TDNOWS Watch this video on YouTube
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Arctic Ice Swimming
Currently the air temperatures in Vardø range from -15 to -5 Celcius, with the regular gale force winds it often adds up to a wind chill factor of -25. The sea holds about +1 Celcius. I start most days with a dip in the harbour. Rather refreshing!Other then that it has been another busy couple…
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Ice Swimming World Championships Highlights 2019
Highlights of Day 2 (1000meters in zero degree water) at the International Ice Swimming World Championships in the Arctic, Murmansk, Russia. Watch this video on YouTube
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Interview with Men’s 1000m Ice Swimming Champion – Petar Stoychev
Post race interview with Petar Stoychev (Bulgaria) after winning the 1000m ice swimming World Championships in the Arctic – Murmansk, Russia. Winning time 12mins 10 sec. water temperature 0 degrees. Watch this video on YouTube