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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kathie Hewko has been swimming across and underneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay for the last 39 consecutive years. From 1976 to 2014, she has completed 91 crossings, the longevity record for the most crossings of the Golden Gate Bridge. She accomplished her 50th Golden Gate […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Of the 37 people in history who have successfully crossed the 26-mile (42 km) Molokaʻi Channel (Ka’iwi Channel) between the islands of Oʻahu (The Gathering Place) and Molokaʻi (the Friendly Island) in Hawaii over the past 54 years, there are some interesting data: The average age of the 22
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are a few open water swimmers known by their stage names (Johnny Weissumuller as Tarzan or Buster Crabbe as Flash Gordon), but a great number of open water swimmers are also known by their nicknames. The following is a short list of the number of colorful champions, powerful
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Redmond, Anna-Carin Nordin, Michelle Macy, Darren Miller, Adam Walker and Kimberley Chambers have completed the Oceans Seven to date. These athletes have completed four or more of the seven Oceans Seven channels: 1. Stephen Redmond (Ireland): English Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Catalina Channel, Cook Strait, Molokai Channel, Tsugaru
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last night, it started to sprinkle, then rain, then downpour on the Southern California coast. It was a welcomed respite from the drought that is affecting the western part of the United States. While the mainlanders were comfortably sleeping under wet skies, Attila Mányoki and his crew were heading
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Neda el Món reported that only 5 out of 40 participants were able to finish the 22.3 km Illes Formigues – Illes Medes Swim in Spain. But only Rory Fitzgerald, a British ice swimmer, was able to complete the swim sans wetsuit. Fitzgerald completed the swim in 11 hours
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Dis-Chem Sun City Swim was started in 1998 when 173 swimmers swam 2 laps of a 750m course in Sun City, South Africa. The event has grown each year with 3,196 entrants participating in the 2014 races (both 1.5 km and 3 km). Olympian Chad Ho will lead
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Some things in the open water swimming world are downright painful: shark bites for sure, jellyfish stings most certainly, shoulder injuries, and a soft tissue condition known as ‘salt mouth‘. Salt mouth is a condition faced by open water swimmers when they swim for long durations of time in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Isola di Pianosa is the fifth largest island in Italy’s Tuscan archipelago and one of the prison island swims. The site of a maximum-security prison from 1858 to 1998, it is now part of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park and a marine protected area. Copyright © 2015 by World
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Located in Italy’s Tuscan archipelago, Isola di Capraia seems to be a great starting point for marathon swimmers. As the northwesternmost of the seven islands of the Tuscan Archipelago, Capraia is 30 km (19 miles) to the island of Corsica, 32 km (20 miles) to the island of Elba,
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