To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ben Lecomte will receive the greatest amount of navigation data ever offered to an open water swimmer in history during The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco later this year. Using data obtained through satellites [see data example above with the gray land mass […]
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>Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ben Lecomte will be constantly monitored during The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco. He will attach an EKG waterproof holter monitor on his chest while wearing a RadBand radioactive cesium collector on his ankles as he swims across the largest body of water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A panel discussion, hosted by Guila Muir on Women in the Open Water will be held tonight at the C & P Coffee Company at 5612 California Ave SW in Seattle, Washington. Muir explains, “Some amazing women swimmers in the Northwest made news and set records in 2016. Say
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I was a child when [my uncle] Ben [Lecomte] walked on the shores of France in Quiberon after he first crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1998,” recalled Paul Lecomte, the Project Manager for Lecomte’s The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean. Later this year, Paul will head a 9-person
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Courtesy of Rich Roll covering surfing swimmer Conor Dwyer who grew into his status and mindset as an Olympic gold medalist. Rich Roll talks with Conor Dwyer on his podcast here in a 88-minute wide-ranging interview that he calls “From Bench Warmer to Olympic Champion“. Besides surfing, living on the waterfront in Manhattan Beach, California,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After years of planning and politicking, the selection of the location of the 2024 Summer Olympics is turning out to be between two large global cities. Several candidate cities expressed interest in hosting the 2024 Olympics including Rome (Italy), Nairobi (Kenya), Casablanca (Morocco), Durban (South Africa), Johannesburg (South Africa),
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After years of planning and politicking, the selection of the location of the 2024 Summer Olympics is turning out to be between two large global cities. Several candidate cities expressed interest in hosting the 2024 Olympics including Rome (Italy), Nairobi (Kenya), Casablanca (Morocco), Durban (South Africa), Johannesburg (South Africa),
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Not only did David Meca win FINA world championship races in 1998, 2000, 2003, and 2005 and 25 FINA World Cup races while being ranked #1 on the 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2003 FINA professional circuits during his lengthy career, the Spaniard who competed for USC during his collegiate
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Estrecho de Cook from Pablo Argüelles. 11 hours 20 minutes across the Cook Strait with Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González on March 19th. In his own words, Argüelles explains his sixth Oceans Seven crossing: The trip to New Zealand was a long one, about 29 hours since arriving at Mexico City International Airport. During the flight from
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Courtesy of Ted Gover in a Starbucks in San Diego, California.
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