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Olympian, Paralympian Natalie du Toit On WOWSA Live Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. In a throwback episode (from January 2011) of Open Water Wednesday (the precursor to WOWSA Live), Olympian and Paralympian Natalie du Toit talks about her career. The South African broke barriers like no one else before in Olympic history. On […]
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Cathy Delneo Talks Sharks And Wildlife Protection Policy On WOWSA Live Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. In a throwback episode (from June 2011) of Open Water Wednesday (the precursor to WOWSA Live), Cathy Delneo, a librarian, a surfer, a tiger shark attack survivor, and an open water swimmer from San Francisco, is one
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Poseidon At Princeton Courtesy of DeNunzio Pool, Princeton, New Jersey. In the entrance of the aquatic complex on the Princeton University campus, there is a beautiful sculpted memorial to J. Randolph Block (1953-2003), a member of the Princeton Class of 1974. It reads, “His love for Princeton, Princeton Swimming and Diving, and his teammates still
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Walid Ahmed Abdel Kader is a disabled Egyptian who has one arm and one leg. Walid completed his 33.5 km English Channel crossing from England to France in 12 hours 59 minutes in August 1990.
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Remembering Charlie Gravett, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famer Courtesy of Melissa Roberts, Jersey. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Contributor, Charlie Gravett of Jersey, passed away on July 6th at the age of 77. Ned Denison writes, “Charlie was a big personality, extraordinarily generous with his time, and a leader in the
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Around Öland With Anna-Carin Nordin Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Oceans Seven swimmer Anna-Carin Nordin is stage swimming over 300 cumulative kilometers around Öland, the second largest Swedish island with an area of 1,342 square kilometers located in the Baltic Sea. The plan is to swim about 20 km per day, getting in the
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Eden Elgeti, a 26-year-old transgender swimmer, explained her journey venturing offshore with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison on WOWSA Live.
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Helen Tonge’s Alcatraz Escape Route Swim Courtesy of Pedro Ordenes and Kathy Winkler, Water World Swim, San Francisco Bay, California. Helen Tonge from Glossop in Derbyshire, England visited San Francisco and became fascinated with the stories of how various prisoners had tried to escape from The Rock, Alcatraz Island. She transformed that fascination of prisoners
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Gilles Potvin Recalls His Swimming & Coaching Past On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Coach Gilles Potvin spoke with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison about his eventful career on today’s WOWSA Live. In this interview, the 78-year-old former police officer from
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Courtesy of Lynn Blouin of the International Marathon Swimming Association, Mar del Plata, Argentina. The reach, passion, and impact of Claudio Plit of Argentina is vast. Back in 1998, Plit prodded, lobbied and negotiated to re-establish a 38 coastal swim between Miramar and Mar del Plata in his native Argentina. Not since 1962 had this
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