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  • Jacob’s Well Swimming Hole in Texas | MicBergsma

    Aug 13, 2020

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    rokur
    in Nature, Wild Swimming, Wow

    Jacob’s Well is a deep spring water swimming hole in Wimberley, Texas. A popular place to get away and cool off in 68 degrees water to swim, hang out, cliff jump, and my favorite free diving! Was shot in several trips there from 2014-2016.

  • UC Santa Barbara swimmer to go 10 miles in ocean waters for COVID relief

    Aug 13, 2020

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    rokur
    in Charity
  • 71km. 13 Lakes. 3 Days | Lake District Ultra Swimming Challenge With George Taplin [Podcast] | Propulsion Swimming

    Aug 13, 2020

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    In this weeks episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast we are talking to George Taplin who swam the length of 13 lakes in the Lake District over 3 days, completing a total of 71kms!

  • How hard is it to swim the English Channel? | Rugby player’s incredible attempt

    Aug 13, 2020

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    Former Scottish International Alex Grove sat down with Jim Hamilton to discuss his experiences swimming the English channel.

  • My $1,000,000 Training Pool | Cody Miller Vlogs

    Aug 13, 2020

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    rokur
    in Competition, Swimming Pools
  • 22 migrants crammed onto a dinghy spotted stranded in the English Channel | SWNS

    Aug 13, 2020

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    rokur
    in Safety, WTF

    A group of 22 migrants crammed onto a dinghy were spotted stranded in the English Channel, as the number of crossing continues to grow. The men were seen on the edge of the French side of the Channel and were not moving as the outbound motor on their boat had broken down. A group of cross-Channel swimmers returning to Britain saw the vessel bobbing in the water at around 5pm yesterday (Tues) and raised the alarm. 

  • 19-year-old Spanish swimmer dies after practicing breath-holding

    Aug 13, 2020

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    rokur
    in Competition, Freediving, Safety

    ‘Ramiro Tossone, a 19-year-old swimmer who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the Regional Hospital of Malaga after being rescued from a pool, finally died on Wednesday, according to health sources confirmed to Europa Press.

    According to 112 sources, last Saturday he suffered an incident while practicing apnea during training in one of the pools of the Mediterranean club, after which he had to be rescued with symptoms of drowning by the staff of the enclosure.

    Sport apnea is a test that measures the ability of a person to stay underwater or to descend underwater freely.’

    Read La Vanguardia (here Google translated)

    Nos falta Ramiro Tossone. Un grande de la natación malagueña y andaluza. Siempre feliz y siempre dispuesto a apoyar a sus compañeros. Te echaremos de menos Ramiro!! D.E.P. Un abrazo a la familia y al R.C.M. pic.twitter.com/JgSDqQIAJ6

    — Xavi Casademont (@XaviCasademont) August 12, 2020
    Image courtesy of Hernán Piñera, CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Olympics: Stranded Japanese honeymooners end up as Cape Verde’s team ambassadors

    Aug 13, 2020

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    rokur
    in Fun, Organization

    Japanese couple Rikiya and Ayumi Kataoka had their honeymoon wrecked by the coronavirus pandemic, but their resourcefulness in enforced exile in Cape Verde has won them appointments as ambassadors for its Olympic team.

    The Kataokas had completed a third of their round-the-world trip when a suspension in long-haul flights stranded them for five months in the archipelago of 10 tiny islands off the coast of West Africa.

    Unable to resume their journey to Europe and then home to Japan and unwilling to head to the African mainland, where virus cases are spiking, they had to trade their skills with domestic businesses to earn funds in the absence of work visas.

    But Cape Verde’s Olympics officials were so intrigued by the ties the couple had built with locals that they decided to include the Kataokas in their team heading to the rearranged games in Tokyo next July.

    “They want me to be an ambassador of the Olympic team,” Rikiya, 30, told Reuters via Zoom, speaking from the island of Sal. “When I go back to Tokyo, I will do a job for them.”

    Read Reuters
  • Marathon Swimmer Chloe McCardel

    Aug 13, 2020

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    Marathon swimmer attempts to break world record by swimming the English Channel 35 times – RMTV spoke with Chloe in Hythe.

    https://youtu.be/jkBdYvUfro8
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