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Occasionally, we ask fundamental questions about the sport of open water swimming. Why is it that feeding means drinking? Why is it when a swimmer is racing, they are also floating and drafting? [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Open water swimmers occasionally hit turbulence and must face surface chop. While rough water and whitecaps are the bane of most open water swimmers and their escort pilots and crew, some experienced veterans prefer rough water conditions in a race so they can best utilize their ocean-faring skills. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open
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Griffith University professor Robyn Jorgensen conducted a 3-year study that found young children (under 5 years of age) who learn to swim at a young age achieve a wide range of skills earlier than those who do not. The study was based on data provided by online surveys completed by parents of 7,000 children under
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Jarrett Tishmack, an environmental convervationist, firefighter, and field technician for the U.S. Forest Service, came down in altitude from his Fort Collins in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado to the Dutch Caribbean. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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For centuries, there have been numerous formal and informal open water swimming pods from Kyoto to Rome. In seas and rivers, oceans and lochs, these pods rarely fail to have colorful characters amid their ranks. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
A Pod Of Phibbies Led By The Chief Ancient Read More »
Among the thousands of Openwaterpedia entries of people, products, places, services, coaches, pilots and events, below is the current list of the 50 most popular online searches in Openwaterpedia. Openwaterpedia is an online reference and research tool for the open water swimming community has entries posted in English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Russian, Portuguese,
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The epicenter of the emerging global open water swimming community – from short ice swims and wild swims to wetsuit-enabled mass participation swims and wetsuit-adverse channel swimming – sits off of the coast of the European continent, but is it called England or Great Britain or the United Kingdom? Does that include Scotland, Wales and
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Nicknames are colorful and sometimes based on funny or profound meanings. Some are given at birth and some are given at the height of an athlete’s career (see Abdul Latif Abou Heif, Crocodile of the Nile on left). There are a number of colorful champions, powerful personalities and charismatic characters in the open water swimming
Do You Know Nicknames Of Open Water Swimmers? Read More »
The only way to describe it is dark, scary and courageous. At the stroke of midnight on November 24th, Aaron Richardson is going to dive into the waters off of Rottnest Island and swim 20km through the night, among sharks, to Cottesloe Beach in Western Australia. His effort takes him the opposite route of the
Everyday Heroes Swimming Breast In The West Read More »
After his riveting speech at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference on the Queen Mary and his 5.1 km effort at the Swim Across America event in Long Beach, California, Craig Dietz spent some time in Hollywood. On November 6th, his personality shown through brightly as a guest on the Marie Show, a TV show
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