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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Olympic swimmer Casey Barrett wrote a commentary in Swimming World Magazine on the International Olympic Committee’s recent position regarding tattoos among athletes competing in international competitions [read here]. Barrett, who himself got a tattoo before he competed in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, observed, “The Olympic rings tattoo – […]
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Courtesy of Tara Diversi, Queensland, Australia. Karlie Price, a mother of four, has fostered a dream to swim across the English Channel for a decade. “Life is too short to put things off,” said the Australian who made her first attempt at swimming the Channel in 2014 [see video below]. “I am very privileged to
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Courtesy of Tara Diversi, Queensland, Australia. Jane Gordon is a mother of 3 children (8-year-old Hugo, 6-year-old Archie, and 3-year-old Rupert 3). She and her family live in Brisbane, Australia. Coached by English Channel world record holder and fellow Aussie Trent Grimsey, her window to attempt a crossing of the English Channel is July 19th-26th.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “It is a beautiful day out in Aquatic Park [in San Francisco, California] with Kim [Chambers],” wrote Darren Miller. It is not often that two Oceans Seven swimmers train together. “The water temperature dropped down to 53ºF (11.6ºC) so basically we were swimming in the North Channel. But it
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When your campus resides on the shores of a lake, the ambiance of the university would seem likely to have a marine spin to it. George Williams College of Aurora University is located on the shores of Williams Bay in Wisconsin’s Geneva Lake and has such a marine ambiance
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We believe and forecast that the sport of open water swimming and all its various niche areas (channel swimming, professional marathon swimming, ice swimming, relays, ocean racing, biathlons, triathlons, extreme adventure racing, excursion swimming, expedition swimming, sea trekking, swim trekking, wild swimming, high-altitude swimming, yacht swimming, lifeguard competitions, obstacle
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Courtesy of Planet Love Life, An Ocean Near You. The global issue of marine debris cannot be solved overnight or by one individual. Planet Love Life recognized that it will take the efforts of many people and organizations to change the tide on plastic pollution in our oceans and beaches. In an effort to connect
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Courtesy of Brian Meharg, Bangor Boat, . The North Channel schedule is becoming crowded as the 21-mile channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland is becoming more and more popular. The Irish Long Distance Swimming Association held its first one-day course on April 30th for volunteers who will serve as observers. “The ILDSA asked via Facebook
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Oceanman is a series of open water swims organized by Aida Molina of Culture Sport 365 that culminates at the Oceanman World Championship in Beniform, Spain. The 2016 Oceanman International Open Water Circuit features five races in Mexico, Spain and Italy with 3 different distances: *6 – 14 km
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While the Oceans Seven is a goal of channel swimmers, the Ice Sevens is another massively difficult swimming concept. Ice swimming‘s equivalent of the Oceans Seven requires that a swimmer must complete seven different Ice Miles in seven different locations under standard ice swimming rules (i.e., no wetsuit and
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