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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. During the relays performed at 0ºC temperatures at the 2015 Tyumen Open Water Swimming Cup in Siberia, Russia last week, the relays were conducted in the dark. Nuala Moore of Ireland recalls, “The relays were amazing to watch in the ice. The Russians from the Novosibirsk Team in Eastern […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In some circles in the open water swimming community, people advocate gaining weight and adding body fat in order to build a tolerance to cold water and prevent hypothermia. But in other circles in the open water swimming community, people advocate acclimatization and focusing on the mental aspects in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Walker talks to ITV London about his life-changing Oceans Seven journey swimming 7 channels around the world that he described in his autobiography Man vs. Ocean: “[Adam Walker]…took on arguably the toughest extreme sport on the planet – to swim non-stop across seven of the world’s deadliest oceans
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Los Mayores Retos Del Hemisferio Norte En Aguas Abiertas, a translation in Spanish of Calculating Risk In Open Water, courtesy of Tom Morgenstern. Recientemente publicábamos un listado de las travesías “relativamente” cortas más duras del mundo. Pero la World Open Water Swimming Association no se ha quedado ahí y también ha hecho una increíble selección
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Andrea Ioannide was the Vice President and General of the Cyprus Navy. Unfortunately, he was killed in the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion, the worst peacetime military accident in Cyprus (see news report here). The Famagusta Nautical Club established an annual memorial event for him called Ioannideia. Ioannideia takes
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi will pull a 50-ton ship 200 meters in the Ultimate World Iron Swim Challenge in Port El Kantaoui on December 23rd. His event has generated significant media interest in Tunisia where it will be covered by Al Jazeera TV, El Hiwar Ettounsi TV, Janoubia TV, TNN TV,
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Tyumen, Siberia. Swimmers from all around Russia, Ireland, Argentina, USA, Chile, United Kingdom, and Estonia competed in the 25m breaststroke, 25m freestyle, 50m breaststroke, 50m freestyle, 100m, 200m, 450m and 500m and relay at 0ºC at the Tyumen Open Water Swimming Cup in Russia this week. “All of us internationals cut
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Courtesy of Ine Town Tourisam Association, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. In preparation for our 42 km swim across Lake Biwa near Kyoto, Japan, we often traveled to the coastline along the Sea of Japan for training. One of the places we traveled to was the Norose Coast where we swam in Ine Bay because it closely
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