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Lynne Cox has set open water swimming records
across the world, and now she has focused her decades-long experience
and expertise into this definitive guide to swimming. Cox methodically
addresses what is needed to succeed at and enjoy open water swimming,
including choosing the right bathing suit and sunscreen; surviving in
dangerous weather conditions, currents, and waves; confronting various
marine organisms; treating ailments, such as being stung or bitten, and
much more. Cox calls upon Navy SEAL training materials and
instructors&; knowledge of open water swimming and safety procedures
to guide her research. In addition, first-hand anecdotes from SEAL
specialists and stories of Cox&;s own experiences serve as both
warnings and proper practices to adopt. Open Water Swimming
Manual provides a wealth of knowledge for all swimmers, from seasoned
triathletes and expert swimmers to beginners exploring open
water swimming for the first time. It is, as well, the first manual of
its kind to make use of oceanography, marine biology, and to weave in
stories about the successes and failures of other athletes, giving us a
deeper, broader understanding of this exhilarating and fast growing
sport.
Lynne Cox (born 2 January 1957)[1] is an American
long-distance open-water swimmer, writer and speaker. She is best known
for being the first woman to swim between the United States and the
Soviet Union,[2][3] in the Bering Strait, a feat which has been
recognized for easing the Cold War tensions between Open Water Swimming
Manual: An Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water
Swimmers US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev.[4][5][6][7]
In 1971, she and her teammates were the first group of
teenagers to complete the crossing of the Catalina Island Channel in
California. She has twice held the record for the fastest crossing of
the English Channel from England to France Open Water Swimming Manual:
An Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers (1972
in a time of 9 hours 57 minutes and 1973 in a time of 9 hours 36
minutes[8]). In 1975, Cox became the first woman to swim the 10 °C
(50 °F), 16 km (10 mi) Cook Strait in New Zealand. In 1976, she was the
first person to swim the Straits of Open Water Swimming Manual: An
Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers Magellan
in Chile, and the first to swim around the
Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
Cox is perhaps best known for swimming 2 hour 5 minutes in
the Bering Strait on 7 August 1987,[9] from the island of Little Diomede
in Alaska to Big Diomede, then part of Open Water Swimming Manual: An
Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers the
Soviet Union, where the water temperature averaged around 43 to 44 °F (6
to 7 °C).[10][11][12][13] At the time people living on the Diomede
Islands, only 3.7 km (2.3 mi) apart, were not permitted to travel
between them, although the Inuit communities there had been closely
linked until the natives of Big Diomede Open Water Swimming Manual: An
Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers were
moved to the Russian mainland after World War II.[14] Her accomplishment
a few years before the end of the Cold War earned praise from both US
President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.[4]
At the signing of the INF Missile Treaty at the White
House, Gorbachev made a Open Water Swimming Manual: An Expert's Survival
Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers toast. He and President
Reagan lifted their glasses and Gorbachev said: "Last summer it took one
brave American by the
name of Lynne Cox just two hours to swim from
one of our countries to the other. We saw on television how sincere and
friendly the meeting was between our Open Water Swimming Manual: An
Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers people
and the Americans when she stepped onto the Soviet shore. She proved by
her courage how close to each other our peoples live".[15][non-primary
source needed]
In May 1992, Lynne Cox swam in the Andean Lake Titicaca,
which, at 3,812 m (12,507 feet) elevation, is considered the world's
highest navigable Open Water Swimming Manual: An Expert's Survival Guide
for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers lake. While Titicaca's water,
at 13-14 °C (56-58 °F), is warmer than that of the Bering Strait, the
high elevation and unidentified biting creatures offered an unusual
challenge. The swimmer covered the distance of around 10 miles from
Copacabana, Bolivia, to the village of Chimbo, Peru, in 3 hours 48
minutes. Open Water Swimming Manual: An Expert's Survival Guide for
Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers The Bolivian Navy provided support
boats.[16]
Another of her accomplishments was swimming more than a
mile (1.6 km) in the waters of Antarctica. Cox was in the water for 25
min,
swimming 1.22 miles (1.96 km).[17] Her book about the experience, Swimming to Antarctica, was published in 2004.
Her second book, Grayson, Open Water Swimming Manual: An
Expert's Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers details
her encounter with a lost baby gray whale during an early morning
workout off the coast of California. It was published in 2006.
In August 2006, joined by local swimmers, Lynne Cox swam
across the Ohio River in Cincinnati from the Serpentine Wall to Newport,
Kentucky, to bring attention Open Water Swimming Manual: An Expert's
Survival Guide for Triathletes and Open Water Swimmers to plans to
decrease the water-quality standards for the Ohio River.[18]
In 2011, she published South with the Sun, both a biography
of Roald Amundsen and a chronicle of her 2007 swimming expedition to
Greenland, Baffin Island and Alaska, tracing Amundsen's Northwest
Passage expedition.
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