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John & Tammy Van Wisse On WOWSA Live Courtesy of WOWSA Live, Huntington Beach, California. Tammy and John van Wisse, an extraordinarily dynamic brother-and-sister marathon swimming duo from Australia, will appear on Open Water Wednesday today. They have endurance genes in their blood and a special mental strength to help them reach the pinnacle of […]
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The unique ranking system for marathon swimmers of all ages, abilities, backgrounds and nationalities enables individuals to see rankings by age, by nationality, by gender, by year and by location (e.g., English Channel, Catalina Channel, Cook Strait, Strait of Gibraltar). The ranking system will continued to be tweaked and modified in order to create buzz
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Martin Strel trained in San Francisco’s Aquatic Park for his upcoming Colorado River swim with the Night Time Swimmers in the 12°F (54°F) water. He later shared stories of his swims in the Amazon River (5268K in 66 days), Yangtze River (4003K in 51 days), Parana River (1930K in 24 days), Mississippi River (3797 in 68 days), Danube
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are few young adults with the level of success established over a wide variety of eclectic activities as Megan Melgaard; From racing around islands to acting as a Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer and conducting water safety exercises for Delta, Melgaard has experienced the ebbs and flows of an
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There are some great mass participation swims in Israel including the Sea of Galilee event, one of the world’s top 100 open water swims, as well as specialty marathon swims such as the 3 Seas In 3 Days event. In reading Jeremy Epstein’s blog, there seems to be a practical reason for the popularity of
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The Night Train Swimmers called off their Farallons Island relay attempt ten miles from shore when it was obvious the 20-foot seas were too rough for the safety of the team. A video of the rough seas is shown here – and the video was taken before the worse was about to hit the 43-foot
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U.S. Masters Swimming (USMS) and Pacific Masters Swimming are sponsoring the Open Water Swimming Conference in San Francisco this weekend where walk-up, same-day registrations are available. USMS Executive Director Rob Butcher explains, “The conference is an educational and resource platform for open water event directors. The majority of the speakers and panelists are associated with
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Penny Palfrey completed her record-breaking Molokai Channel swim earlier this week. It was a beautiful, courageous and deeply blue swim, punctuated by breaching dolphins, pods of dolphins, surprisingly no Portuguese Man-o-War, winds running counter to the currents, expert kayaking by Jeff Kozolvich and Cody Dickson, and spot-on piloting by Jim Dickson. Copyright © 2011 by Open
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15 kilometers off the coast of eastern Japan, 60-year-old Hiromitsu Arakawa was found on the top of his roof waving frantically for help after two days on the Pacific Ocean. He was found by a military destroyer heading to help the people of Fukushima Prefecture. Arakawa was spotted by a crew member of the destroyer
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Acclaimed painter and open water swimmer Craig Baskin created the painting “Port-au-Prince HOPE” after the large earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010. The painting was auctioned at the Save The Children Gala to help support an emergency medical team from California who traveled to and treated thousands of people in Haiti. Generous art collectors purchased
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