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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last week in the Catalina Channel, Sabrina Peron of Italy was visited by a hammerhead shark and a blue shark during her crossing. Guided with the cool heads and collective experience of Neil van der Byl and Anthea Beletsis, nothing happened and Peron continued on to the California mainland […]
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Courtesy of September issue of Open Water Swimming Magazine by WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kate Webber is the director and producer of KIM SWIMS, a film which examines the cyclical force and depth of both the human spirit and water, as told through the exploits of Kimberley Chambers and her path to becoming an improbable
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. World-class racer, family relay team member, ultra-marathon swimming pioneer, a national inspiration and an administrator. Those are the various embodiments of Syrian open water swimming hero Feras Moualla. Whether Moualla was racing on the professional marathon swimming circuit on four different continents, doing a 20-hour two-way English Channel relay
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in 2009, Bill Welzien, organizer of the annual Swim Around Key West, visited Israel and completed a one-way 10 hour 25 minute crossing of the 21 km (13-mile) Sea of Galilee. Next month, he will attempt a two-way crossing; this time swimming widthwise under the guidance of renowned
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Photo courtesy of Ballymore Group. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. No lanes, no lines. Just blue sky above and nothing but water below. Its sounds just like the open water. But it is instead the all-glass pool-bridge 10 stories above street level between two apartment buildings in London’s Embassy Gardens. Copyright © 2015
Images courtesy of Universal Sports in Kazan, Russia. Olympic champion Ryan Lochte can still do his thing in the open water, but his old body surfing technique in the pool was ruled illegal by FINA. During his 200m individual medley gold medal performance at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Lochte went on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Emma France swam from Jersey to France in 8 hours 18 minutes. She called it swimming through ‘jellyfish soup‘. “Those jellies are nasty! Glad it’s done. I have wonderful crew of Paul James, Cliff Golding, Wendy Trehiou and Matthew Clarke at the wheel.” Copyright © 2015 by World Open
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 19-year-old Shubhams Vanmali from India is knocking off the Oceans Seven channels at a young age. With the English Channel (12 hours 42 minutes, see below), Strait of Gibraltar (3 hours 16 minutes), and the Catalina Channel (10 hours 42 minutes) completed, he is now on his way with
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Courtesy of Peter Schimming with thanks to the Möllner Schwimmverein team and DLRG Mölln..
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sandor Csepregi is an open water swimmer from Pender Island in British Columbia, Canada. He wanted to honor his late grandfather and one of Canada’s greatest swimming coach with a 35 km circumnavigation swim around Pender Island. Called the George Gate Memorial Swim, Csepregi almost made it around on
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