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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wallace J. Nichols, Ph.D. created a new field called neuroconservation where he has tied neuroscience, psychology, nature, art, conservation, and poetry with activities in, around and under the water. He will attend the Blue Ocean Film Festival this weekend in St. Petersburg, Florida where every two years ocean conservation […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One day a year, the Istanbul Strait lies quiet. The other 364 days of the year, the world’s most narrow strait used for international navigation is busy with boat traffic and marine vessels of all sizes and shapes. But in the summer, the link between Asia and Europe that
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers often serve as mentors to those individuals younger or less experienced than themselves. They train together as swim buddies and pace each others. Marathon swimmers and channel swimmers share tips and information about swims around the world. They share contacts of kayakers and paddlers, pilots and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tomi Stefanovski was honored by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame this weekend when he was formally inducted as an Honour Swimmer of the Class of 2016. The former water polo player and professional marathon swimmer was also recognized by his government representatives as he is the first
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, stage swimmers British Ben Hooper and American Jennifer Figge are readying for their transoceanic swims to start soon. As Hooper’s escort boat [see top photo] pulled into Dakar for the Swim The Big Blue, a transatlantic swim from Senegal to Brazil, Figge
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Photos courtesy of Annie-Claude Roberge, Strait of Gibraltar, Spain to Morocco. Rohan More crossed off his sixth channel to join a small group of luminaries at the top of the Oceans Seven series. On November 4th, he completed he swam across the Strait of Gibraltar in 3 hours 56 minutes. The Indian swimmer from Maharashtra
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Ger Kennedy swimming in turbulence in Ireland’s Myrtleville Beach, courtesy of Siobhan Russell. Ger Kennedy is tough as tough can be in any conditions in open water venues around the world. From his aquatic jaunts in Ireland’s Myrtleville Beach (“…a tad bouncy…” he recalls in his swim shown above) to a “nice 2 km swim
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Courtesy of Clara Rabat, MARNATON eDreams, Barcelona, Spain. MARNATON SwimRun Cap de Creus held its inaugural edition for over 300 participants. Clara Rabat explained about the October 29th race, “This event presents a new discipline that originates from the Nordic countries and has been transferred to the idyllic area of Roses and Cadaqués by MARNATON.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Howard James (née Keech) has that undeniable look of a channel swimmer: a look of determination and intense focus coupled with a sense of adventure and a dash of unbridled joy. James did the improbable. James accomplished the unprecedented. James opened and closed the books on the English Channel
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Photos courtesy of Peter Knapp, Catalina Channel, California. Hank Wise completed his fourth career Catalina Channel crossing in 8 hours 20 minutes today.* In 2010 on his first crossing, the soon 49-year-old’s wife was pregnant with his son Fox. How time flies. “Today, my boy Fox was on the rocky beach at Terranea [Point] waiting
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