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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the first Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Beijing’s manmade Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in 2008 and in London’s manmade Serpentine, the races for gold, silver and bronze were fantastically exciting. Mother Nature’s waves, currents, tides and marine life were essentially written out of the equation in the marathon […]
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Courtesy of Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari) across the Istanbul Strait
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Courtesy of Pádraig Mallon, Camlough Lake, Ireland. With lowered water levels at Camlough Lake in preparation for the repair works and the upgrade of the facilities, it was initially thought that the 2015 Camlough Lake Water Festival would not go ahead. This would be its fifth year of the Water Festival, following the efforts of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Dis-Chem Sun City Open Water Swim in South Africa was started in 1998 by a committee of open water swimmers from Gauteng Masters Swimming. Many of the members of the first organizing committee are still involved today in helping to run the event. The first swim attracted 173
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After smiling at the Google Doodle‘s honoring Duke Kahanamoku, we wondered what other Google Doodles have involved swimming or the marine environment… Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Duke Kahanamoku’s Legacy – A Leg Up On The Competition Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Google gave honor to Duke Kahanamoku on its home page with a Google Doodle* on what would have been his 125th birthday. One of the most celebrated watermen in history, Kahanamoku was a Hawaii-born 5-time Olympic medalist in swimming,
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Photos courtesy of Keano Pavlosky, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Hawaii. Article courtesy of Steve Haumschild of the Kaiwi Channel Association, Hawaii. Few humans in history have experienced the Molokai (Kaiwi) Channel like Steve Haumschild and Jeff Kozlovich. Slowly and repeatedly, they have crossed the 26-mile (42 km) channel between Oahu and Molokai escorting a
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Courtesy of National Public Radio about Benoît Lecomte‘s swim across the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to San Francisco. Listen here for a fascinating interview. What kind of conditions is Benoît Lecomte going to face while swimming across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to California? This video by Lorenzo Fonda may give visual clues: Copyright ©
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Among the many achievements Peter Tanham has done is the first two-way crossing by a man across the Rottnest Channel in 1991 (14 hours 8 minutes) and the greatest number of Rottnest Channel Swims (30). But the 55-year-old accountant from Perth – who can easily described as fit and
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