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Courtesy of Strel Swimming Holidays. “In 2016, we did some amazing swimming adventure holiday trips in several stunning locations including Croatian Islands, Montenegro Fjords, Mediterranean Turkey, Slovenian Lakes, Greek Islands, and Lake Powell in Arizona,” describes Borut Strel of Strel Swimming Holidays. “If interested in joinig us next year 2017 summer, check out our website. […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A ship engine failed and no one could fix it. Then they brought in a man with 40 years on the job. He inspected the engine carefully from top to bottom. After looking things over, the man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently
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Photo courtesy of Channel Swimming Association; fable courtesy of Ann Whitford; submitted by Madhu Nagaraja. Ann Whitford writes children’s books. Below is a fable she wrote on her son Jeffery Whitford’s shoulder injury and his subsequent English Channel crossing. The fable is about Chihuahua who loved splashing and kicking in the pond so much his
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Read is always considered among the most prolific swimmers in history with a career that has long spanned both pool and open water swimming. With 33 English Channel crossings to his name and hundreds of other marathon swims in lakes and seas around the world, Read is still
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In the Year 1185, a famous battle was fought in Kanmon Straits, a narrow waterway that separates the main island of Honshu with the southern island of Kyushu in Japan. Two major samurai clans battled fiercely across the 700m strait with their warriors entering the water. The Japanese samurai practiced suijutsu (水術 in Japanese), the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Water Margin – Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea is a bilingual publication that focuses on raising awareness and appreciation of the beautiful waters that surround Hong Kong and make Hong Kong what it is. The book was published by Ocean Recovery Alliance and Flynn Consulting. It features exquisite
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. There are few coaches in the open water swimming community with the global reach of Tower 26‘s Gerry Rodrigues. Countless open water swimmers, triathletes, watermen and waterwomen from every walk of life in 118 countries have been listening to his Tower 26 Be Race Ready podcast series.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Few things in the open water community are as disappointing to me as seeing a beautiful stretch of beachfront or beautiful waters spoiled by mounds of trash,” said Steven Munatones. “Even swimming into a single plastic bag floating on the ocean is a simple reflection of the global crises
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The momentum and global reach of Ocean Recovery Alliance programs is growing. Among its many projects, supplemented by a variety of ocean swims of various lengths, its Global Alert mobile app is being increasingly used from Asia to the Americas. “The Global Alert Platform allows people anywhere in the
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Insights Into Ice Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Colder water temperatures are coming. Time to curl up with a nice good read in a warm room…like Nuala Moore‘s 2016 manual – Insight Into The World Of Ice Swimming. Her book is based on her experiences in doing ice swimming (i.e., swimming for distance
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