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Adventure: Into The Maelstrom (Part One), courtesy of Beth Harrison, Jack Hudson in the Saltstraumen in Norway. The escort, spotter and film team for the Wild Swimming Brothers (Jack Hudson, Calum Hudson, and Robbie Hudson) included Knut Westvig (expedition guide of Stella Polaris), Luke Palmer (consultant, spotter), David Renton (camera), James Silson (drone operator), and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Patricia Kohlmann is a 2-time Olympic sprinter and 2-time Pan American Games bronze medalist who also coaches masters swimmers and open water swimmers with Team Kohlmann. After participating in the 1983 Pan American Games, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games and the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, she turned to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is very rare that three Olympians gather to help others in an open water swimming clinic. But Swim The Riviera provides that rare opportunity with Gilles Rondy (2008), Julien Sauvage (2012) and Ophélie Aspord (2012). Loïc Branda, founder of Swim The Riviera, “I aim to share the experience
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The Openwaterpedia 100 Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Openwaterpedia is a multi-lingual online reference and research tool for the open water swimming community that is useful for research, reference and expanding one’s knowledge and appreciation of the sport. There are currently 24,724 different entries on 59,111 pages that have been edited 473,923 times and
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Courtesy of Greg O’Connor, Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association. Greg O’Connor of the Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association announced the legacy memorial swim of James J. Doty. “Jim Doty is a local open-water swimming legend. Jim passed on in 2012, but he will never be forgotten. Jim is responsible for forming the non-profit organization, New
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Photos courtesy of Mike Tsolis, Santorini Island, Greece. Mayor Nikos Zorzos of Santorini and Dimitris Diathesopoulos, president of the Hellenic Swimming Federation, led an eventful press conference announcing the Santorini Experience on the island of Santorini in Greece on October 6th-8th. For more information, visit www.santorini-experience.com. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Photo courtesy of Masuyuki Moriya, organizing 17 attempts this summer across the Tsugaru Channel, Japan between Tappi Misaki on Honshu [in the foreground] and Hokkaido [in the background]. Among the Oceans Seven swims, there is one channel that sticks out due to its geographic location, linguistic differences, local foods, and giant eddies. The Tsugaru Channel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Fernando Betanzos won a very close and competitive race among the top three swimmers at this weekend’s 8 km Cruce Cancún in Cancún, Mexico. It was his second consecutive victory in the largest marathon swim sea race in the Yucatán. His 2 hour 1 minute victory qualified him to
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