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1. You must be registered with USMS or USA-Swimming; 2 You must
send in the signed (and initialed) race entry form with payment.
A. Whenever doing ANY athletic event - especially a strenuous one
like this, you must be properly conditioned and healthy.
They're on our Entry Forms page.
The address to send entries is in red on the form.
The net proceeds from this swim benefits two non-profit swim
clubs on Maui: Maui Masters is
a USMS member team that has workouts at the Upcountry pool in
Pukalani and Coach Soichi Sakamoto Pool in Kahului - check their
website for workout times and contact info.
Maui Dolphins is a
USA-Swimming team based at the Upcountry Maui pool.
Duke Kahanamoku - City of Honolulu
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Maui Ditch
Kids
Maui Channel Swimmers
The arch is something that makes this ocean swim unique. As
a comparison, pool competition is like a velodrome for bicycle
racing, or the track for running; normal ocean swims are like road
races for bikes, or cross country running; adding a 9-13' deep and
6-8' wide arch in the middle of the swim is like doing a little
off-road biking, off-road running, or even the steeplechase.
You get 1 minute off your time for diving through the arch.
Any swimmer who dives through the arch gets a token to show at the
finish for the 1-minute "credit". (From the first year, it
appears by examining results that swimmers "lost" approx 50 seconds
by diving through the arch.) A scuba diver will be there at
the arch to monitor swimmers for safety, in addition to a lifeguard
at the surface and a kayaker.
There are cautions for
the arch about...
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You'll be tired when
you dive after 2 miles of swimming. You may or may NOT
benefit from doing this.
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Diving to depth
(especially when tired) can hurt your ears. Do NOT do this
if you aren't practiced in diving to a depth of 9-13' when
tired.
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Diving to depth can
pressurize your goggles (feels like your eyeballs are squeezed,
but really hard goggles hold air which compresses under pressure
"pulling" on your eyes) - this can blur your vision even through
goggles.
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You may scrape your
skin on the coral.
Entries are due August 9th; or at latest (increased fee) by
September 2nd.
Race check in is 7-8am; race instruction 8:15; race start of 2.4
mile 8:30 (as soon as tour boat leaves) and the 1 mile sprint 10
minutes later.
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