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Chris Morgan On KAATSU Aqua Courtesy of WOWSA Live, Danvers, Massachusetts. Olympic swim coach Chris Morgan is the head coach of Gator Swim Club located in Massachusetts. During these times of lockdowns, quarantines, and shelter-in-place and stay-at-home ordinances, Morgan gives backyard pool swimming workouts, Zoom dryland training, and KAATSU Aqua workouts to his 300+ member […]
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Kate Steels On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Kate Steels, a 50-year-old British winter swimmer, ice swimmer, channel swimmer and marathon swimmer from Southampton, England, will be the featured guest on tomorrow’s WOWSA Live with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison. Steels is also just one Ice Mile
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Bruckner Chase On WOWSA Live Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Ocean City, New Jersey. Bruckner Chase does a lot in the open water including teaching lifesaving skills from Amerika Samoa to the coast of New Jersey as well as taking paraplegics into pools and the Atlantic Ocean. He founded the Ocean Positive Foundation and the Ocean
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Professor Kimberly Prather, an Atmospheric Chemist, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, and a Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California San Diego gave stern warning to ocean swimmers, surfers, coastal walkers and runners, fisherman and sailors about the dangers of catching COVID in or near the ocean
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Is SH2OUT A Good Thing For Open Water Swimming? Commentary above courtesy of Colin Hill of Colin Hill Swims, Windermere, UK. Colin Hill is an Honor Contributor (Administrator) in the Class of 2017 of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Not only is Hill are active and prolific winter swimmer and channel swimmer, he
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Overwhelming In Odaiba Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. Swimming World Magazine published the results of its survey on the following question: Should FINA support calls to move the 2020 Olympic open water venue from Tokyo to a cooler place for a safety backup? The results of this question are
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Satoyama In The Sea Courtesy of WOWSA, Pacific Ocean. “After spending many years in Japan and being a lifelong ocean swimmer, I realize the similarities between the Japanese concept of satoyama and the conservationist mindset of ocean swimmers,” said Steven Munatones. Satoyama (里 or village and 山 or mountain) refers to settlements in upland valleys
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Harry Hinken Proved Nothing Great Is Easy Courtesy to Channel Swimming Dover, English Channel. Annette Kellerman, the most prolific global-trotting marathon swimmer in her day, reportedly had a mild case of polio as a child. But the polio seemingly did not result in a physical disability later in life. The dual inductee (Honor Swimmer in
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Ted Erikson, You Can Call On Him Courtesy of a hacker. Ted Erikson completed several monumental open water swims in his career including a 30 hour 3 minute two-way crossing of the English Channel. It was his third attempt to set an English Channel double-crossing record. His record stood for 10 years until, remarkably, it
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Willis Hanks Swam From Harlem To The English Channel Courtesy of Sam Rockett, English Channel. Willis Hanks taught swimming in Harlem and worked decades as a postal clerk in New York. In the 1950’s, the African American swimmer was able to meet famous Americans who funded his English Channel attempts along with his family and
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