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Ocean City Masters Swim Goes Off Saturday Morning

The one-mile ocean race is open to anybody.

The 34th annual T. John Carey Ocean City Masters Swim will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 20.

The race is open to swimmers of all ages with registration at 34th Street Beach in Ocean City starting at 8 a.m.

The one-mile race is in the ocean off 34th Street, and directors look for favorable conditions when they choose the direction of the point-to-point swim on race day. An evening swim for most of its history, the Masters was held in the morning for the first time last year.

The rest of the open-water calendar is as follows (click on race name for application and information):

Yates Swim (August 10): After many years as an Absecon Inlet swim with a finish at Gardners Basin, the Yates has been held on the ocean side at Albany Avenue Beach in Atlantic City. It's a one-mile box course with a 6:45 p.m. start.

Atlantic City Pageant Swim (August 31): The nation's oldest continuous open water swimming race dates back to 1929. The 1.5-mile ocean course starts at Steel Pier and ends at The Pier at Caesars. It's a 9:45 a.m. start.

September Splash (Sept. 19): The race in the bay in Wildwood Crest includes quarter-mile, one-mile and two-mile swims and a paddleboard race.


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