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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Antarctica – a Bridge for Peace was today’s address by Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa to an international audience in Moscow, Russia. I am honoured that you have given me the opportunity to address you on the subject of Antarctica. Let me start off by confessing that I […]
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Photo by Clive Wright of Brenton Williams in Marina Martinique. When a company like Cambridge Analytica uses its technology to define a voter’s predominant personality type during the American election season, its personality classifications are based on the ‘Big Five’ traits that is summarized by the acronym OCEAN. OCEAN stands for openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On World Oceans Day, Bruckner Chase talks about his partnership with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “I am excited to be connecting a personal and professional mission to positively impact how we feel think and act towards our oceans with the incredible teams at NOAA’s Oceans Today. The Ocean
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. Be Race Ready podcast episode #10 is posted online. Coach Gerry Rodrigues discusses breathing and answers questions from ‘How often should you breathe?’ and ‘Should you hold your breath?’ to ‘How does less or more breathing effect performance?’ Tower 26’s Rodrigues describes the mechanics, recommended frequency, and
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Courtesy of Alizee Zimmermann, Race For The Conch Eco-SeaSwim, Turks & Caicos. In the Race For The Conch Eco-SeaSwim goodie bag for its participants, this marine drawing is included so both young and older competitors can fill in with crayons. This year will be the seventh year of this tropical swim in the Caribbean Sea.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is located off the coast of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, just north of Los Angeles and south of San Francisco. It is one of 14 U.S. federally designated marine protected area administered by America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The sanctuary encompasses
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Openwaterpedia is a unique, comprehensive, multi-lingual online reference tool for the endurance sports, triathlon and aquatic community. The information covers people of the sport (11,733 individuals), terms (2,666 words and phrases), places (2,171 locations), products (1,465 goods), pilots (207 captains), events (3,844 races), services (718), coaches (1,140), records (767),
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Beginning in A.D. 722, Sado Island served a prison island as it lies 40 km away from the Japanese west coast in the Sea of Japan. Significantly further from the mainland that Alcatraz or Robben Island, the 40 km was an effective lifelong sentence of banishment on the island
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While the La Jolla Rough Water Swim in the south part of California is postponed this year, the RCP Tiburon Mile will go on…the same weekend. While over 2,000 swimmers annually flock to La Jolla Cove for the original Rough Water Swim, nearly 900 swimmers annually flock to San
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