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  • Baby Otter Swim School offers 5-day program in effort to eliminate child drownings

    Mar 20, 2018

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    rokur
    in Organization, Safety

    Baby Otter Swim School is a traveling swim program providing services to prevent child drowning.

  • Pastors learn to swim for good cause

    Mar 20, 2018

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    rokur
    in Organization, Safety

    Nearly 80 percent of children in low-income households, either don’t know how to swim or can’t swim very well.

  • Fun in Acapulco – Resistance Swimming | Vaziri Swim

    Mar 20, 2018

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    rokur
    in Equipment, Wow

    Too short a pool for swimming? Resistance bands tied to a palm tree enable Leila to swim in place. Shot on the west coast of Mexico and famously featured in Elvis’s 1963 film, Fun in Acapulco.

  • 360 swimmers at the Open Challenge Mass Event Doha 2018

    Mar 20, 2018

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    Can you believe that more than 360 swimmers took part in the Open Challenge in Doha? You could be one of these swimmers if you like!

  • Breaststroke Piston Kick | The Race Club

    Mar 20, 2018

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    rokur
    in Technique

    A good breaststroker only takes .4 seconds to draw the legs up and back for the breaststroke kick. Learn this swim drill that will help increase your leg speed in breaststroke.

  • PANERAI Traits / MARE / With Guillaume Néry

    Mar 20, 2018

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    rokur
    in Equipment, Freediving

    Very happy to officially announce you that I am a new worldwide ambassador of the renowned watch company Officine Panerai. To start this collaboration, let me introduce you the chapter 3 of the TRAITS campaign, named MARE.

  • 1 Thing Wrong With The Seaview 180 Full Face Snorkel Mask

    Mar 20, 2018

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    rokur
    in Equipment

    Here’s 1 thing wrong with the seaview 180 full face snorkel mask

  • How to warm up for a Marathon swim – Athlete’s tips

    Mar 20, 2018

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    rokur
    in Dryland, Health, Open Water

    We have asked some top swimmers how they warm up before they go for a long swim. Gregorio Paltrinieri, Sharon Van Rouwendaal and other competitors of the FINA/Hosa Marathon Swim World Series explain the exercises they do to be well prepared for a race.

  • Longest distance swam underwater with one breath (female) – Guinness World Records

    Mar 20, 2018

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    rokur
    in Freediving

    Accomplished freediver, actress and model Marina Kazankova (Russia) attempted the Longest distance swam underwater with one breath (open water, female, with fins). She swam for an incredible 154m (505ft 2.98in) to set a new record.

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