To educate, entertain, and enthuse those who venture beyond the shore
Then And Now In The San Francisco Bay Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The photo on left from the Dolphin Club archives shows swimmers jumping into San Francisco Bay for a Golden Gate Bridge swim in 1931. No goggles. No wetsuits and an escort boat crew dressed nicely with jackets, coats and hats. The […]
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In the US Masters Swimming forum, one supporter of the sport observed, “Open water is the template, pool swimming the unnatural imposition.” While mankind has been swimming in the open water for millennium, pool swimming does seem like relatively a recent luxury. This observation reminded us of a wonderful book on Olympic swimming. Renowned coach
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Gunaxin recently posted an online survey on the Most Dominant Athlete of All Time. The list was limited to 30 male athletes from the following sports: Auto racing, baseball, basketball, boxing, cycling, football, golf, Greco-Roman wrestling, hockey, horse racing, soccer, surfing, swimming, tennis and track. We think Gunaxin missed one athlete: Petar Stoychev for his
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Power Swimming In The Open Water Courtesy of Popular Mechanics. In the November 2007 issue of Popular Mechanics, Erik Sofge writes about the Pentagon’s PowerSwim for military applications. More powerful than a blueseventy pointZero 3, faster than a Speedo LZR, able to go underwater where no swimmer has gone before, the dolphin-like PowerSwim device has
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Where Are They Now? Micha Burden Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Besides working modeling assignments and recently getting married, Micha Burden, one of America’s top open water swimmers, will represent the Los Angeles County Lifeguards in its annual competition against Victorian State Surf Life Saving Association of Australia in The Wieland Shield in January.
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As we gazed over the ocean’s horizon with a slight wind pushing a few white clouds across the blue skies, we were talking with Sid Cassidy about Petar Stoychev‘s incredible 6:57 crossing of the English Channel on August 24th, 2007. Sid‘s observations were worthy of replication: “It was one of those very special days in
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Pioneering Women In San Francisco Bay Meg Keller-Marvin of the International Swimming Hall of Fame provided a wonderful photo of an amazing pigskin award presented to Nell Schmidt, a pioneering open water swimmer, in 1912 by the City of Alameda, California (near San Francisco Bay). The award is at Nell’s surviving granddaughter’s home in Bloomsburg,
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Claudia Rose of San Diego blazed a new aquatic trail by becoming the first person to swim across the Sitka Sound in Alaska this summer. True to her words (“I am much more interested in things people have not done“), her success has led to a new 10K swim in Sitka next August, called the
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One Man, Five Continents, Many Voices Courtesy of WOWSA. Marcos Diaz of the Dominican Republic is set to go on his greatest adventure. This time, his feat will truly be on the world’s stage with the United Nations at his back. With an impressive news conference held at the UN Building in New York, Diaz
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According to Dr. Jolie Bookspan, cold acclimatization is a well-documented process of gradually increasing your resistance to cold through regular cold exposure. In Acclimatization to Diving in Cold Water, Dr. Bookspan noted examples of cold acclimatization: the native peoples of the African Kalahari, the Australian desert, and Tierra del Fuego in Chile. In Chile, the
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