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Looking Forward For Pablo Fernández Álvarez And Nuala Moore Courtesy of WOWSA, Mount Everest, Nepal. Like the postponed and cancelled open water swimming events from Tokyo to Florida due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pablo Fernández Álvarez and Nuala Moore [shown above] had to put their swimming goals temporarily on hold. As Fernández says from Spain, […]
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Marianne Alvarez Of Honu Para Swim On Creative Mornings Courtesy of Creative Mornings, Vancouver, Canada. Marianne Alvarez of Honu Para Swim Team in Vancouver, Canada was born in Mexico and moved to Canada in 1987 with her husband, raising four daughters. In 2014, she organized the first Para-Relay to swim across the English Channel, six
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Antonio Argüelles On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Mexico City, Mexido. Open Water Friday will feature one of the most remarkable men in the open water swimming community: Mexico’s Antonio Argüelles. His aquatic dreams took him from Mexico City to his formative years to Stanford University and, much later, to two Triple_Crown_of_Open_Water_Swimming and Oceans Seven
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No pool? No Beach? No problem! Courtesy of Jack Butera, Lexington, Massachusetts. When you fly over the states of California and Florida and many places in between, you can look down and see thousands of pools. Some are regulation-size 50 meters pools, but a vast majority of the pools are small home pools. According to
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Write On When Not Swimming Handwritten letters courtesy of Lexie Kelly, Newport Beach, California. In these trying times of lockdown, quarantines and shelter-in-place ordinances, the lives of swimmers – among others – have been turned upside down with pool and beach closures. Suddenly, swimmers cannot swim, but more importantly, they miss the camaraderie of being
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Newfoundland: Sweet, Patient, Devoted Canine Swimmers Courtesy of John Murray, Ocean Beach, California. John Murray often tells athletes who he trains about the mindset of disabled dogs. “A three-legged dog doesn’t care it is missing a leg. He runs with the other dogs; he goes and fetches sticks or balls. He goes all-out, happy to
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The Streets Of San Francisco Courtesy of Space Race Studio, San Francisco Bay, California. The spread and countermeasures for COVID-19 have literally emptied the streets, pools of San Francisco. But according to locals can appreciate that at least Aquatic Park remains open to bay swimming in San Francisco Bay. Copyright © 2008 – 2020 by
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Dr. Ted Gover, An American In Tokyo Courtesy of Ted Gover, Ph.D., Tokyo, Japan. Ted Gover, Ph.D., an open water swimmer from Southern California, spends his dryland time as the Director of the Tribal Administration Program at Claremont Graduate University as well as a public relations and government affairs executive. He teaches courses on American
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Huntington Beach in Southern California has 30 lifeguard towers and Tower Zero on its long concrete pier that are staffed with upwards to 68 lifeguards during the summer months. The lifeguards watch over several thousand visitors each day and perform an average of 4,000 rescues each year. The lifeguards go through rigorous training, testing and
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2020 International Ocean Film Festival Courtesy of International Ocean Film Festival, San Francisco, California. The International Ocean Film Festival postponed its 17th annual film festival scheduled for March 12th – 15th in San Francisco, California due to the current status of the COVID-19 virus. The film festival will be held at a later date this
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