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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 47th International Jarak-Šabac Marathon Swim, formally known as the Plivački maraton Jarak-Šabac (“Peace Race”), is a professional 19 km marathon swim that has been unfailingly held during times of international sanctions, war and peace along the River Sava in Šabac, Serbia. Previous race winner and long-time race director […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2016 Reef & Run events are held on East Beach in Santa Barbara, California every Thursday night from June 9th to September 1st. The The season opener on June 9th is free. The ocean swim distances are 500 yards, 1 km and 1 mile while the biathlon is
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Courtesy of Michael Ventre, New York to London Swim. Michael Ventre is training for his swim across the Atlantic Ocean as a charity swim to support Oxfam. His latest sponsor is Zoggs. “Zoggs is my latest partner for the New York to London Swim campaign. My first stash of kit has just arrived in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach, Florida is doing its best to conduct its business in an environmentally-responsible manner. The small Florida brewery invented a way to replace the plastic six-pack rings that can harm sea life with edible rings. Edible for the fish, turtles, birds – and the 690
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In honor of World Oceans Day on June 8th, swimmers, sailors, surfers, paddlers and divers can get together and be part of the Oceanic Big Five – the top five sports communities that use the ocean. Doug Woodring explains, “Get a group together and create a cleanup in your
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Carol Moore, creator of The Water Blog, shares her views and stories of the open water swimming experiences of The West Neck Pod, a group of open water swimmers of West Neck Beach in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island in New York. Their season recently began as Moore captures
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Carol Carter and her son Mark have had quite a journey to the start of the Swim Serpentine. After being born 13 weeks premature, Mark weighed in at 454g (1 lb. 13 oz.) on July 9th 1976 to the incredible joy and sheer terror of Carol. The staff at
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Port Vila Masterbathers of Vanuatu held their first Iririki Island Charity Swim last weekend. With Air Vanuatu and BRED Bank as sponsors, the proceeds from the 3.2 km were donated to the Vanuatu Aquatics Federation for the benefit of swimming in Vanuatu. Ivan Oswald writes, “Drownings are common
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) expressed its support to add surfing to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. If the recommendations are formally approved at the 129th IOC meeting in Rio de Janeiro in August, surfing would join karate, skateboarding, sports climbing, and baseball/softball on the
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