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. With so many swimmers around the world attempting and completing unprecedented charity and environmental swims from the Southern Ocean to the North Pole and every ocean and nearly every sea between, their need and ability to communicate their missions and goals is similarly unprecedented in human history. Lewis Pugh […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After completing a lake (Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana in 14 hours 55 minutes), river (76.4 km descent of the Colorado River through Canyonlands in Colorado in 13 hours 56 minutes), and a sea swim (38 km from the island of Culebra to Fajardo in Puerto Rico in 12 hours
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Leme To Pontal, a 35 km Coastal Challenge Courtesy of WOWSA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Back in 2008, Olympic swimmer Luiz Lima took a popular song in Brazil and literally swam the course as described in the lyrics. The 36 km coastal course between Leme Beach and Pontal in Rio de Janeiro caught the attention
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The local community has long known about the aquatic passion and ocean swimming talents of the indomitable Hank Wise since his days as a young age group swimmer. People of every generation throughout Southern California and his hometown of Long Beach had been enthralled by the warm-hearted charisma and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bill Welzien has been steadily chugging towards history’s longest Century Swim. With his most recent 12.5-mile (20.1 km) circumnavigation swim of Key West in Florida, he is 13 swims away from his 100th open water swim in the same venue. On December 29th, Welzien completed #87 in 6 hours
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Courtesy of Yasunari Hirai, training at sea level in Rio de Janeiro and at high altitude in Spain. From our perspective, it is hard to find an open water swimmer who enjoys training and travel, challenges and competition more than Japan’s two-time Olympian Yasunari Hirai who is always on the go with a huge smile.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is a perspective that some men – especially men without daughters – cannot fathom. But it is a perspective that nearly all women – especially those who venture alone in city streets, suburban environs or isolated parking lots or during solitary runs, walks, hikes or bikes – know
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When blood and the ocean, that is when most swimmers want to get out of the open water. Fearful of a shark frenzy or at the least a shark encounter of the most unpleasant kind, swimmers know that blood can attract sharks. George Burgess, Director of the International Shark
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Courtesy of Lexie Kelly, WOWSA. Julia Aria (Argentina), Rachele Bruni (Italy), Betina Lorscheitter (Brazil), and Esmee Vermeulen (Netherlands), Haley Anderson (USA), and Poliana Okimoto (Brazil) at the start [from left to right] of the 2016 Rie e Rainha do Mar (King and Queen of the Sea) race on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Copyright
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Courtesy of Alex Gray, Oceana, California. Imagine swimming comfortably in the ocean and then getting unexpectedly trapped in an unseen fishing net. That is happening with marine mammals along the California coast, from dolphins to sea turtles. Alex Gray and his colleagues at Oceana explained, “Mile-long walls of death are killing sea turtles. Right after
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