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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.

David Whyte Talks About The English Channel On WOWSA Live

David Whyte Talks About The English Channel On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame has inducted a number of Honor Pilots during the 21st century including: * Reg Brickell, Sr., Great Britain, Class of 2003 (English Channel) * Captain Leonard Hutchinson, Great Britain, Class of 2004 […]

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Harry Hukkaker Talks About Global Adventures On WOWSA Live

Harry Hukkaker Talks About Global Adventures On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Harry Huffaker, DDS is among the most prolific channel swimmers in the Pacific Ocean in history with a record-setting career centered in the State of Hawaii. The 80-year-old former collegiate swimmer

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Unique Award In The Open Water Swimming World, Part 18

Unique Awards In The Open Water Swimming World, Part 18 Courtesy of Rosemary George, Dover, England. The 81-year-old Rosemary George, an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer from Dover, gave an interview on WOWSA Live with Ned Denison. George offhandedly mentioned an award that she received as a swimmer. In 1967, she swam

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First Generation Of Bangla Channel Swimmers On WOWSA Live

First Generation Of Bangla Channel Swimmers On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Swim in warm, beautiful, unpredictable waters with friendly, hospitable hosts in a largely unchartered part of the world’s oceans. That is the message of Kshitindra Chandra Baisya, Mizanur Rahman, Fazlul Kabir Sina, Lipton Sarker, Salman Saeed, Kamal Anwar Babu,

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Rosemary George Talks Open Water Swimming History On WOWSA Live

Rosemary George Talks Open Water Swimming History On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Rosemary George was not only an active open water swimmer in the 1950s and 1960s, but she was also an eyewitness and enabler of historic English Channel swims. The 81-year-old International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer

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Old School Goggles, Father O’Flanagan’s Patented Goggles

Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Rosemary George from Dover, England mentioned her stylish eyewear that she used to wear on her English Channel crossings during today’s WOWSA Live interview with Ned Denison. O’Flanagan’s goggles was a brand of goggles patented by Father Michael O’Flanagan. The

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Carlos Larriera Remembers Pro Marathon Racing On WOWSA Live

Carlos Larriera Remembers Pro Marathon Racing On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Carlos Larriera helped organize the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda together with Werfill Castro, Dermidio Cabral López and Adolfo Marionias as well as competed in several professional marathon swims in South America, North America and Europe. In

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