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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.

Bruckner Chase, Nominee For The World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year

Bruckner Chase is bringing together the world of ocean environmentalism to the growing community of open water swimmers. For his leveraging governmental resources for American Samoa, his work with the Special Olympics and his development of ocean awareness programs together with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, he is showing others how their lives on […]

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Avatars Planning Return To The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim

Chris Clemons and Dan Manning, two polished American marathon swimming commentators from Huntington Beach, California, may return to behind the TV booth. The duo are currently considering coming out of retirement and are currently undergoing negotiations with television broadcasters. The two avatars are polished and are looking to provide commentary and analysis of major open

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How Open Water Swimmers Can Learn From Nature

Biomimetrics is a term for taking product design ideas from nature. As scientists, researchers, doctors and engineers are exploring nature to gain an understanding of how novel materials, products and compounds can be designed and developed. Velcro, waterproof glue and turbine blades are just a small sampling of what has been inspired by nature. The

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Windermere 12-way Warriors, Nominee For The World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year

LAKE DISTRICT, ENGLAND. The Windermere 12-way Warriors include Liane Llewellyn, Thomas Noblett, Keith Bartolo, Michelle Lefton, Michelle Sharples and Dee Llewellyn who set the world’s non-stop lake distance swimming record. Their 3-day, 12-way non-stop adventure of 126 miles was 75 hours and 32 minutes of endurance, teamwork and patience in Windermere in the Lake District

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