To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Pamela Dickson is a 56-year-old grandmother of ten who became the oldest person to swim 40.2K across Lake Taupo, the biggest lake in New Zealand, in 13 hours 56 minutes. The oldest person to swim the Cook Strait dug deep and proved that her chronological age was less important than the rhythm she has developed […]
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Bruckner Chase is bringing together the world of ocean environmentalism to the growing community of open water swimmers. Meeting after meeting, Bruckner is leveraging governmental resources from Washington D.C. to Samoa to conduct a number of ocean-related initiatives together with innovative open water swimming programs. He is also creating international open water swimming programs for
Ana Marcela Cunha had dreams of returning to the Olympics after she finished fifth in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The 16-year-old was only 5 seconds outside the bronze medal in the 2-hour race. But she missed out on her second Olympics by a mere 4 seconds at the 2011
Retired surgeon Dr. Roger Allsopp showed society and the global open water swimming society what is physically possible in the latter half of life. The 70-year-old dynamo successfully crossed the English Channel in 17 hours and 51 minutes to become the oldest person to ever do so. Despite a six-meter spring tide, Dr. Allsopp endured
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André Gide, a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947, wrote a few apropos passages for the open water swimming community: “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time“ “Fish die belly-upward and rise to the surface; it is
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As summer turns to fall, and fall turns to winter, many open water swimmers substitute their favorite open water venues to chlorinated pools in their areas during the winter months. One newly formed club in the Thames valley, Henley Open Water Swimming Club, will continue swimming. Club founder Tom Kean says, “We’ve had a really
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Enjoy the Daily News of Open Water Swimming interview with channel swimmer Jen Schumacher who explains her unique ocean adventure in Southern California with Forrest Nelson, Tina Neill and Dan Schumacher with Carol Sing where 110 million beach-goers enjoy the coastline from June – September every year. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Roger Finch, originally from Zimbabwe, currently from South Africa, became a member of the Half Century Club with his 12 hour 39 minute crossing of the English Channel on August 20th. Formerly an age-group swimmer, he traveled the world doing motorcycle road racing and then equestrian show jumping. Working
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Ploegen Tijdrace is a team pursuit race (team time trial), done in either in freestyle or breaststroke (as shown in Alkmaar below). Niek Kloots explains, “Here in Holland, we do it mostly for fun as 500 meters in breaststroke. A cake is presented as the price. Drafting as a team certainly speeds them up. We
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The First Intercontinental Swimming Relay from Eurasia to America across the Bering Strait is a 30-member 86K relay swim in July and August 2012. The Inter-regional Public Fund “100 years of the Submarine Fleet”, the Committee for Sport and Tourism of the Chukchi Autonomous Area, the Regional Public Organization in the Krasnoyarsky territory “Winter Swimming
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