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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Guila Muir, Say Yes to Life Swims and Western Washington Open Water Swimmers. A panel discussion on Women in the Open Water will be held on March 24th at the C & P Coffee Company in Seattle, Washington. Guila Muir explains, “Some amazing women swimmers in the Northwest made news and set records […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ice Swimming is defined by the International Ice Swimming Association as swimming in water 5.00°C (41.00°F) or less. Given its preference for much colder water than most humans can tolerate, and the fact that the average temperature of the ocean surface waters is about 17°C (62.6°F)*, it is interesting
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Courtesy of The Weekend Sailor to be shown at the International Ocean Film Festival in San Francisco in March 2017. The Weekend Sailor is a feature documentary about the unexpected victory of the Mexican yacht Sayula II in the first crewed sailing race around the world in 1974. In 1973, the United Kingdom organized the
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Courtesy of the International Ocean Film Festival 2017 Festival. The mission of the International Ocean Film Festival is to inspire people to appreciate and care for the ocean by revealing its wonders through independent films. Every year in northern California, the Festival features a four-day ocean engagement event for audiences from around the world. Though
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Photo courtesy of Hardcastle Film and Photo and APEX Coaching, Hardcastle Film and Photo, Boulder, Colorado. Grant Holicky arguably has the greatest scope of athletes of anyone on the USA Swimming national coaching staff. A retired professional triathlete, he coaches many successful cyclocrossers from the amateur to elite professional level as well as triathletes, cyclists,
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Courtesy of www.hd-production.at at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. The surface water temperature was measured at 0.9°C with the deeper water measured at 3.7°C in the midst of air temperatures that dipped to -11°C during the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. “The swimmers got
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. USA Swimming has held its national open water swimming championships all over: from the West Coast (Seal Beach and Newport Beach) to the Midwest (Indianapolis) to the East Coast (Fort Lauderdale). But one constant remains in the championships: the passion of the local organizers. The same will continue at
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pauline Barker is hosting the next Ice Cup and Great Britain’s Ice Swimming Championships 2017 to be held in The Cruin in Loch Lomond, Scotland. Organiser Pauline Barker describes the event, “100 hardened swimmers will compete in Loch Lomond to compete for the title Great Britain Ice Swimming Champion.
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