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Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel.
CNN: Tuesday,
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Last year she switched her sporting nationality, giving up competing for Kenya to swim for the better-resourced Team GB, and in doing so she became the first black woman to swim for the British team.
BBC: Sacrifices of teenage Olympic hopeful Ajulu-Bushell
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The first person to swim across Lake Ontario was 16-year-old Marilyn Bell in 1954, according to Swim Ontario, the sport's provincial governing body.
CNN: 14-year-old swims solo across Lake Ontario
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Dana Vollmer, the first woman in history to swim the 100-meter butterfly in under 56 seconds took Gold at the London Olympics.
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The Ice Bear, as he is often called, also became the first person to complete a long distance swim in every ocean in the world.
BBC: Long-distance swimming in Nepal��s glacial mountain lakes
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The first and most obvious is that extremism is the pool in which terrorists swim: it inspires, supports and justifies them.
ECONOMIST: Terrorism
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The IBM Country Club was where my kids learned to swim, and where my youngest first went off the diving board at age three (he always loved the water).
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Karate lasted about a week and the swim team didn't last past the first lap.
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In addition to winning multiple swimming marathons, she was one of the first women to encircle the island of Manhattan, and she holds the world's record for longest ocean swim -- 102.5 miles from the island of Bimini in the Bahamas to Jupiter, Florida.
CNN: Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim
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As they began to swim, the Suskis lost sight of the captain and first mate amid the burgeoning swells.
NPR: US Tourists Survive Ship Sinking Near St. Lucia
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Some smaller markets have even managed to swim against the tidal wave of global selling in the first few weeks of the year--no easy feat.
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After a late-afternoon swim in Lake Maracaibo to cool off from the sweltering heat, we got our first glimpse of towering clouds amid the glow of the setting sun.
BBC: In Venezuela, nature��s most electrifying lightning show