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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When we travel around the United States, there are certain locations where open water swimmers have created very warm and welcoming communities. These communities have both training and competitive opportunities for people of all ages and abilities. 1. Honolulu, Hawaii 2. San Francisco, California 3. New York, New York […]
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Courtesy of CrossFit Games, Hermosa Beach, California. When fit people oriented on dryland strength enter the ocean, this is what happens: their competitiveness shines and those with ocean swimming experience win (Jordan Troyan from New Jersey in the individual race and CrossFit Athletic from Australia in the team event). Copyright © 2015 by World Open
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Courtesy of CrossFit Games – Ocean Swim, Santa Monica Beach, California. For those ocean swimmers who enter the water when the surf is up, they all know to dive down below the crashing surf and wait for the whitewater to rush over and past them before coming back to the surface. Copyright © 2015 by
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alfredo Camarero of Argentina was inducted as an Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1978. Camarero was the first of many great Argentine professional marathon swimmers who won the most prestigious and competitive open water races in the mid- to late 1950s: the Maratona
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Courtesy of Doug Woodring of Ocean Recovery Alliance, Hong Kong. Individuals from around the world can join the Ocean Recovery Alliance community help reduce trash in the world’s waterways by using its new Global Alert Platform. The Global Alert Platform enables people to report trash hotspots along their coastlines. This is one of the Clinton
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the end of 2015, Janet McArdle hands over the leadership of Swim Across America to Rob Butcher in a mighty big way, by helping to raise an another US$6,300,000 during 2016 that was donated by thousands of swimmers to various research institutes and programs for cancer prevention and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Páraic Casey is remembered fondly by not only those who knew him, but Páraic Casey was a member of the Sandycove Swimming Club in Cork, Ireland who passed away during a solo charity swim attempt at the English Channel on 22 July 2012. At the time, Casey was swimming
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Photo credit: Giorgio Scala of Deepbluemedia. At the point when an open water swimmer’s toes are at the edge of a starting platform or edge of a shoreline, their mind starts to clear. “Now it starts.” “I’m ready.” “This is what I have been training for.” The excitement and anticipation is heightened to a level
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