She talks to Olympians and to open-water champions like Lynne Cox to find out why they live to swim, why swimming is man's most sensuous sport (because skin is his largest sensory organ) and why it keeps your arteries elastic, your joints supple, is good for your heart as well as your brain, and offers more than a cursory help in the fight against ageing.
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Two of the three whales made it to open water after rescuers used chain saws and de-icers from a Wisconsin company to create more breathing holes for the whales and a Soviet icebreaker cleared a path through the thickest ice.
Once the seals are fitted with their sensors, they are taken out to open water on their own personal speed boat, the Steller Shuttle.
The site is fresh and engaging, ranging in a wide list of topics including a guide written for single girls, open letters to coconut water, and crafting tips on sprucing up purses.
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As you know, yesterday BP began a controlled burn designed to remove large quantities of oil from the open water in an effort to protect shoreline and marine and other wildlife.
The area is now more likely to become open water each summer, bringing forward the potential date when the summer sea ice will be completely gone.
You either drink it neat or with a drop of water to open the flavours.
Beyond these patches are acres of open water that used to be storm-absorbing marshland.
Monad Shoal is classified as an intermediate dive, and most shops require divers to have advanced open water or deep dive certifications since the depth surpasses the normal 18m limit for open water divers.
Water has been one of the key points of contention over fracking, both because the practice pollutes water with chemicals, salts, and radioactivity and because it consumes lots of H20: up to 13 million gallons to open a single well, according to an administrator on Texas Water Development Board cited by Bloomberg reporter Joe Carroll.
"The journey across 500 miles of open water strains their endurance to its limits, " the Initiative said.
The birds need open water for drinking and to preen their feathers.
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It offers a four-hour cruise across 60 miles of open water, an alternative to driving between Michigan and Wisconsin by way of crowded Chicago.
His game was honed on the crowded, competitive, open-to-the-public salmon water in his home province.
The neighborhood was flooded when the levee cracked open, pouring up to 10 feet of water into the area.
One of the most arduous undertakings was to raise the roof 20 inches a seemingly small amount, but enough to dramatically open up the view of the water from a long upstairs balcony.
But first, across the US, land managers are trying to find ways to slow down the loss of open space and water sources, many of them threatened by rampant development.
Dan Suski tried to ignore images of the movie "Open Water" that kept popping into his head and its story of a scuba-diving couple left behind by their group and attacked by sharks.
Obvius has pioneered a portfolio of plug-and-play data-collection and communications applications based on an open architecture, which allow users to monitor electric, water, gas, environmental and renewable energy information through a single, web-accessible platform.
It is no accident that the Netherlands, a place with minimal resources and a rather large water-control problem, but open to trade, new people, and new ideas, gained wealth more rapidly than the rest of Europe.
An open hatch in the polished stone floor leads down to the water beneath and a small natural pool.
Swans are protected birds and the Crown retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water.
Though it has been seven days since anyone was pulled alive from the rubble, Angeli, Steelman and the other underground rescue workers are saying there are enough open spaces, with food and water, for people to survive.
The project has been carried out during the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 school years and was aimed at all teachers open to participating in a creative activity on the theme of water and science with their Primary or early Secondary school classes.
The toads' destination: their birthplace in the Roxborough Reservoir, which once provided drinking water to Philadelphians and is now preserved as open space in the city's park system.
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But one thing for sure, says Delaine, is that the open water and the weakened marsh will not be able to buffer the sting of this season's storms.
She says she chose Lake Ontario for her swim because it's one of the hardest open-water swims in the world, and she wanted to "accomplish something difficult" for children who fight cancer.
And the scream of snowmobile engines assailed eardrums as 57 racers in colorful gear kicked up big spurts of sand as they gained speed to seemingly defy nature and head out onto the open water.
There are far fewer trees and water obstacles, but the courses are far more open to the elements.
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