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. “In the early spring morning in 1991, I was standing on the beach at Ajigaura Beach in Ibaraki Prefecture. Ajigaura is a great surfing and ocean swimming beach is north of Tokyo and adjacent to Fukushima where a 9.1 magnitude earthquake led to a large 13-15 meter high (43-49 […]
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1000 km From Mumbai To Mangalore Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Sea Hawk team is off again in search of regaining its ultra-marathon distance relay record. The team of six Indian swimmers who completed a charity swim of 433.11 km (269.1 miles) along the Konkan coast to the Gateway of India in Mumbai,
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Unidentified swimmers from the 1927 Canadian National Exhibition race in Toronto. Unidentified swimmers from the 1930 Canadian National Exhibition race in Toronto. After 17-year-old Toronto swimmer George Young won the 1927 Wrigley Ocean Marathon Swim across the Catalina Channel in January, the Canadian National Exhibition hosted its own marathon swim during the annual August event.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cristian Vergara and his support team are ready for his unprecedented 38-mile (61 km) circumnavigation swim of Easter Island on Tuesday, November 29th. Crew member Capri Djatiasmoro reports, “The water temperature is 72°F (22°C) for the expected swim of 24 hours or less. The Internet WiFi communication is sparse
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Photo of Ned Denison, Jills Vanegas and Jacques Tuset courtesy of Gary Emich on Devil’s Island. “I started the bucket list for fun,” describes Triple Break visionary Ned Denison. “I enjoyed having the largest number of escapes [from former island prisons] for some years. But in 2014, I noticed that a French swimmer had set
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Blue Mind trailer from Between Two Harbors by Richard Yelland from Wallace J. Nichols on Vimeo. Dr. Wallace J. Nichols first introduced the concept of the Blue Mind with his best-selling Blue Mind. Since that time, this concept has grown and touched millions of people in different ways. “In our effort to change the conversation
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marco Bovi, Stefano Caleffi and Maria Eleonora Sassi completed a crossing the Bocche di Bonifacio (Strait of Bonifacio) that separates the Tyrrhenian Sea from the western Mediterranean Sea. The strait is notorious among sailors for its weather, currents, shoals, and other obstacles. The 15 km course, organized by NAL
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Never Alone category is a division within St. Vincent’s Swim Across the Sound from Port Jefferson, Long Island, to Captain’s Cove in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The well-established charity swim raises as much as US$2 million per year to benefit individuals and families battling cancer.* In the Never Alone category
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