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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 4 women over a 4-years period across 4 channels. That is the goal for 4ForBlue, a team of four open water swimmers from Turkey. Their 4-year plan is to swim across different channels around the world as a relay team over a 4-year period. Blue stands for the Aegean […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rohans More of India has steadily climbed the Oceans Seven rankings. With his 10 hour 37 minute crossing of the Tsugaru Channel in Japan this week, he is now #8 on the list. Like most other Tsugaru Channel swimmers, More started out just at sunrise in fairly calm waters.
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Courtesy of Alberto Font of The Tico Times, Golfo Dulce. It is few open water swims that start with the cries of macaws. But there are few swims held in such a location as the Golfo Dulce in Costa Rica. 19-year-old Christopher Lanuza of Heredia won the inaugural 14 km race across Golfo Dulce in
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Courtesy of Alberto Font, Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. José Manuel Cullell is a 20-year-old open water swimmer from Costa Rica. He became the first person to swim 14 km across southern Costa Rica’s Golfo Dulce on 4 July 2015 in 4 hours 50 minutes from Playa Nicuesa, near Piedras Blancas National Park, to Puerto Jiménez.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 19-year-old Shubham Dhananjay Vanmali of India became the 120th person in history to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. He crossed the English Channel in 12 hours 42 minutes and the Catalina Channel in 10 hours 42 minutes. He completed the Triple Crown with an 8 hour
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Photo of Ferry Weertman (silver), Jordan Wilimovsky (USA) and Spyridon Gianniotis (Greece) by Giorgio Scala of Deepbluemedia. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jordan Wilimovsky manhandled the world’s best at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia, but this weekend, he will enter another highly competitive race where there are no guarantees. The
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Courtesy of Vicky Miller who crossed the North Channel from Northern Ireland to Portpatrick, Scotland on July 28th in 12 hours 6 minutes under the escort of Brian Meharg and Mervyn Kinney with observer Gary Knox.
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Attila To Attempt A Quick Two-Fer Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Attila Mányoki, who has crossed the English Channel and Tsugaru Channel as well as a number of other marathon swims, will have a tough double in the Pacific Ocean in a few weeks. On September 21st, he will set off on a Molokai
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Swimming in the sea makes me feel free and alive, in intimate contact with nature,” says author and open water swimmer Miquel Sunyer. “Swimming is my own private form of meditation. I rejoice in the silence around me and relax with the sound of my own breathing. The sea
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Cap Gris Nez looms large in the channel swimming community, very few people know about its Pacific Ocean comparable, Shirakami Misaki in northern Japan’s Tsugaru Channel. Cape Shirakami (or 白神岬 in Japanese) juts out from the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido just like Cap Gris Nez is an
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