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Steven Muñatones was an American water polo player, a collegiate swimmer, and an open water swimmer from Huntington Beach, California. He has been a coach, administrator, writer, race director, kayaker, paddler, official, observer, author, lifeguard, reporter, Olympic commentator, aquapreneur, and adviser in the the sport of open water swimming. He founded the World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Oceans Seven, WOWSA Awards, Openwaterpedia, KAATSU Global, and KAATSU Research Foundation and served as an ambassador for the American Heart Association. He has written over 21,344 articles on open water swimming, water polo, and KAATSU to date. He received the 1984 Harvard University John B. Imrie Award, 1990 Guinness World Record, 2001, 2005, 2007 USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Committee Award, 2002 Honor Swimmer, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, 2007 & 2010 USA Swimming Glen S. Hummer Award, 2010 Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2016 Poseidon Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2018 Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame, 2019 Honor Contributor - Media of the International Ice Swimming Hall of Fame, 2022 Dale Petranech Award for Services to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.

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Southern California, An Open Water Centre Of Excellence

While Dover, London’s Serpentine, New York’s Coney Island, Boston Harbor, Chicago’s Lake Michigan, Australia’s Perth and Melbourne, San Francisco’s Aquatic Park, California’s La Jolla Cove, Indianapolis, Connecticut, Canada’s Lake Ontario, Argentina’s Parana, Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach, and Ireland’s Sandycove are world renowned centers where marathon swimming heroes and heroines regularly gather, […]

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Who’s Trending In Open Water Swimming?

Among the 8,809 Openwaterpedia entries and 2,495,760 page views 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,

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Troy Prinsloo Is A Strong Contender At The Olympic Marathon

Hercules Troyden Prinsloo from Durban, South Africa qualified for the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km in London and is considered one of the darkhorses for a podium finish on August 10th in the Serpentine. A 2008 Olympian in the 1500m freestyle and 2011 graduate of the University of Georgia in the United States, Prinsloo shifted over

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Penny Palfrey’s Encounter With Hammerhead Sharks

Penny Palfrey saw groups of hammerhead sharks during the last part of her 41-hour Cuba-to-Florida attempt over the weekend. A large intimidating creature with a distinctively shaped head, how dangerous is the hammerhead to humans? According to the authoritative International Shark Attack File that tracks shark attacks since 1500, there have been 21 unprovoked attacks

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