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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 50-year-old Susan Simmons and 35-year-old Alex Cape had a huge goal. To swim for the longest and furthest time in a freshwater setting. They both wanted to go beyond the distance they achieved during their 70 km crossing of Canada’s Cowichan Lake in 2014. Their goal was to swim […]
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Radio interview of Chloë McCardel after her three-way crossing of the English Channel courtesy of 2GB’s Steve Price from Sydney, Australia. Listen to the fascinating interview here.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wendy Trehiou participated in La Grande Nag gie (The big swim) by the Jersey Swimming Club Polar Bear team last year. Together with Ian Jones, Nick Dotter, Graeme Lowe, David le Clercq and Neil Faudemer, Trehiou traversed the 35.7-mile (57.4 km) distance from Saint-Malo to Jersey in 18 hours
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Exhausted, shivering and somewhat disoriented under medical care is how Chloë McCardel ended her 36 hour 12 minute three-way English Channel crossing today. But like her earlier swim in the Bahamas where she spent 6 days in a local hospital to recover, McCardel was triumphant in her pain. She
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Rolano is the escort boat to be used by Benoît Lecomte on his 180-day 8,000 km stage swim across the Pacific Ocean. Lecomte and his support crew (including Strategist Malena Gamboa, Coordinator Tyler Bel, Campaigner Scott Smith, and Skipper Richard) will be onboard the Rolano for an estimated
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Several world-class athletes flew directly from Kazan, Russia at the 2015 FINA World Championships to Québec, Canada to participate in the 10 km Traversée internationale du lac Mégantic. The Traversée in lac Mégantic is the only 10 km point-to-point race on the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup. Australian
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers always gaze upon bodies of water and wonder what it feels like to swim in, what the flow of the water is, what the water temperature feels like, and what is visible under the water (the marine life, the depth, the clarity). Some water is salty
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel has finished her third two-way crossing of the English Channel, taking 22 hours 42 minutes en route to her planned triple crossing. Her first crossing was 11 hours 34 minutes, her second crossing was an even faster 11 hours 8 minutes in the 17.5°C (63.5°F) water. She
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Halestorm is a 6-person relay that swam an unorthodox 33.5-mile course from Long Point on Santa Catalina Island to Laguna Beach on the Southern California mainland in 19 hours 44 minutes. In order of appearance, the team members who crossed the Gulf of Santa Catalina included Brett Rose, Tom
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