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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.

Michael Twigg-Smith Talks About The Molokai Channel On WOWSA Live

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Michael Twigg-Smith Talks About The Molokai Channel On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Molokai Channel, Hawaii. Hawaii resident Michael Twigg-Smith has escorted paddlers, paddlers and swimmers across the 42 km Molokai Channel for years, facing winds, ocean swells and shark encounters along the way. The experienced boat captain gives a hint of the challenges […]

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Michael Twigg-Smith, David Harvey, Mark Hamilton Talk About Channel Swimming On WOWSA Live

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Michael Twigg-Smith, David Harvey, Mark Hamilton Talk About Channel Swimming On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Catalina Channel, California. Michael Twigg-Smith, David Harvey, and Mark Hamilton in the North Channel are seamen extraordinaire and experienced channel swimming escort pilots. Twigg-Smith escorts swimmers across the 42 km Molokai Channel between the islands of Oahu and

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Global Study On COVID-19 Containment Or Travel Restriction

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Global Study On COVID-19 Containment Or Travel Restriction Courtesy of Dr. Isabel Krug and Jad Adrian Washif. Led by Dr. Isabel Krug of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences and Jad Adrian Washif of the National Sports Institute of Malaysia, 80 researchers (including sport scientists) from 6 continents (44 countries) would like to invite athletes

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Hallucinations In The Open Water, A Future Edition Of WOWSA Live

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Hallucinations In The Open Water, A Future Edition Of WOWSA Live Courtesy of WOWSA, Lake Ontario, Canada. The venerable Dr. Vicki Keith C.M. spoke about many hallucinations during her marathon swims during her WOWSA Live interview. A special future edition of WOWSA Live will be conducted with Dr. Keith and others. These swimmers have all

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Ori Sela And Guy Cohen Talk About Swimming In Israel On WOWSA Live

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Ori Sela And Guy Cohen Talk About Swimming In Israel On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Sea of Galilee, Israel. Entrepreneur and Israeli national swimming team coach Ori Sela, and former Air Force pilot Guy Cohen talked about open water swimming in Israel with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison on

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Damián Blaum Talks About Racing Around The World On WOWSA Live

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Damián Blaum Talks About Racing Around The World On WOWSA Live Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. 38-year-old International Marathon Swimming Hall of Famer Damián Blaum of Argentina has enjoyed and endured one of the most prolific careers on the professional marathon swimming circuit. Blaum talked about many of his global adventures and professional

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Mike Oram Talks About English Channel Swimming On WOWSA Live

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Mike Oram Talks About English Channel Swimming On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Dover, England. 73-year-old Mike Oram, the world’s most experienced channel escort pilot, is a fountain of expertise and experience of all kinds of English Channel crossings including solo swimmers, rowers, adventure, extreme and wetsuit athletes, and London to Paris triathletes (approximately

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Douglas McConnell Talks About Virtual Teamwork

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Douglas McConnell Talks About Virtual Teamwork Courtesy of Douglas McConnell, Vissant Capital Corporation, Illinois. A Long Swim has raised US$500,000 for ALS research, dedicated to the groundbreaking and collaborative research at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, one of the top ALS research laboratories in the world. Douglas McConnell announced the

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