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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is usual when a marathon swim or a channel swim is finished, the swimmer reaches shore to the cheers of only a few onlookers and within the camera angles of only a handful of support crew members. But when a swim is an inter-island crossing between out in […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Angel Yanagihara, the inventor of the world’s most effective jellyfish protection, was honored last year at the kickoff ceremonies at the University of Hawaii chapter of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). NAI, open only to United States patent holders, is an organization to honor and promote inventors and
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Photo of 53-year-old Penny Palfrey, courtesy of Thomas Mikkelsen of the Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association at the Boston Light Swim. “You can do anything if you set your mind to it,” is an oft-stated post-swim statement of successful swimmers whether they are Olympic medalists like Michael Phelps, marathon swimmer Gilles Potvin, or English Channel
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Swim The Island is the cover story for this month’s Open Water Swimming Magazine. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If there was a time to visit Southern California, November 6th and 7th seem like as good a time as any for an open water swimmer. It is a great time to mingle with some of the most accomplished open water swimmers in history. On Friday, November 6th, the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bad luck hit a trio of famous open water swims across America this month. First it was the Waikiki Roughwater Swim in Hawaii, then it was the RCP Tiburon Mile in San Francisco, and then finally it was the annual Big Shoulders race held in Lake Michigan. Big Shoulders
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Skip Storch, a 2009 Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame once swam three non-stop circumnavigations of Manhattan Island. He described a fundamental difference between pool and open water swimmers, “It has always been my contention that lines are for swimmers that need balance and boundaries.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Conrad Wennerberg, who wrote one of the most definitive books on marathon swimming (Wind, Waves and Sunburn – A Brief History of Marathon Swimming), has a treasure trove of first-hand insights into the world of open water swimming. Here is one such interesting historical tidbit: Olympic hero and movie
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Patti Bauernfeind keeps swimming and swimming while working in Silicon Valley and raising money for Trust in Education. As she has been raising funds to provide education and health services to women and children in Afghanistan, she keeps swimming: across Lake Tahoe, across Lake Zurich, across the Red Triangle,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2015 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies will be held on November 6th at the San Pedro DoubleTree Hotel in San Pedro, less than 30 minutes for the LAX International Airport. The induction ceremonies will honor the Class of 2015 who includes Mexico’s Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González
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