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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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Open Water Swimming Survey At Jamie’s Swim Camp

At Jamie’s Swim Camp 2.0 at Hidden Valley Lake in California, there will be channel swimmers (English Channel, Catalina Channel, Tsugaru Channel, Cook Strait, Strait of Gibraltar, Maui Channel, Kaulakahi Channel, Cayman Brac Channel), marathon swimmers (Great Salt Lake, Lake Tahoe, Windermere, Lake Biwa, Five Lakes of Mount Fuji, Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, Tampa Bay […]

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What Comes Around, Goes Around In The Open Water

Dr. Sean O’Connell, a mathematics lecturer at Bermuda College and a member of the 24-hour club, completed a 43 hour 27 minute, 47-mile circumnavigation of Bermuda in August 1977. After his first attempt that ended in failure, he tried again three weeks later. The swim helped raise money for the Bermuda Physically Handicapped Association and

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Transformation Of Togs Into Timeless Treasures

Susan Petrie-Badertscher, founder of Petrie Point Designs, transforms vintage wool bathing suits into unique historical works of art that non-swimmers enjoy and swimmers appreciate. Fueled by her idyllic seaside living on the eastern end of Long Island in New York, Petrie-Badertscher obtains the authentic, original wool suits from the 1920’s to the 1960’s from all

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FRESHMAN Receives Best New Film Award

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Deborah McDonald, director and producer of the documentary film 50 year old FRESHMAN received the Best New Film Award at the 2012 International Aquatic History Symposium & Film Festival in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. McDonald‘s documentary film FRESHMAN is about International Masters Hall of Fame Open Water inductee, Suzanne Heim-Bowen

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