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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Jacqueline Savitz, Vice President, United States & Global Fishing Watch, Oceana. Our oceans have the potential to provide an abundance of food for our growing population. However, each day, that potential is compromised by overfishing and illegal fishing, which has always occurred far beyond the horizon and mostly out of sight…until now. Starting […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Elizabeth Fry trailblazed another channel to add another notch in her illustrious International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame career. Fry, a 57-year-old financial services expert from New York, took off from the eastern peninsula of Honshu, the main island of Japan, and landed in Toi on the southern cape
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Japanese fishermen and escort boat crews often fly a flag that says 遠泳中 when a swimmer is swimming alongside their boat. The three-character word is pronounced “en-ei-chu“. The three characters, in order from top to bottom, mean in English “distance” (or long or far), “swimming”, and “in the middle”
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On the 29th of August two groups of tandem swimmers from East London crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco. In the first group, Paul Spurway, Nathan Meadows, Juliette Bigley and Mark Redgrave took off after waiting for a week for the wind to decrease. “Even though
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Courtesy of Irish Times about Nuala Moore. Nuala Moore, an ice swimmer from Dingle in Co Kerry, explains what motivates her in a program published by the Irish Times. “Fear is just an emotion…Your mind is what fuels your swim…” Watch, learn and appreciate Moore’s path to the ice here.
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Pods Swim Around Sea Monkeys Course Courtesy of Eyewitness News, ABC7 from Seal Beach, California. The Seal Beach Sea Monkeys of Seal Beach, California frequently swim within easy view of Catalina Island and the Queen Mary harbored in neighboring Long Beach. Since the 1970’s when famed Lynne Cox and Penny Dean trained between the Seal
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the days of LORAN and when marathon swimmers around the world numbered in the dozens not in the thousands, a young group of beach city kids began their own dreams of swimming across the Catalina Channel. “We trained all over the place in and around Long Beach including
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Courtesy of Devon Clifford, Lake George Marathon Swim, New York. I came across a quote recently that resonated with me deeper than I could articulate. I simply read it. I felt it. George A. Sheehan was a physician and a runner. He said, “To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept
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