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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. So it seems that contemporary ice swimmers may be well ahead of their times and the predicted climatic shift. The Daily Mail reported on predictions by scientists that the Earth may enter a mini Ice Age by 2030. While only a few thousands of bioprened people around the world […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ned Denison has one of the widest arm spans in the open water swimming world, but his personal network has an even greater global reach. Denison has recruited an outstanding new group of marathon swimmers to serve on the voting panel of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Most people take the shortest straight-line tangent when crossing a channel. Most, of course, get occasionally pushed laterally one way and the other, during their channel crossing, but channel swimmers definitely adhere to the mindset of going from Point A to Point B along the shortest, straightest line possible.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Talk about stepping it up at the age of 60. Canadian Robin Lajoie is a triathlete, endurance runner and open water swimmer from Hamilton, Ontario. He began swimming butterfly in the open water years ago and will next attempt a 24-hour all-butterfly swim in Canada on August 5th. “He’s
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It all begins with the first stroke…or so it is said. But planning for a long swim or a triathlon begins even earlier. Usually over a coffee or a meal. Usually over someone’s house or at a restaurant. Swimmers, friends and trusted advisers brainstorm about locations, swim directions, prevailing
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Courtesy of People’s Daily, China. The People’s Daily reported on July 12th that 1,200 people swam across the Han River in memory of 49th anniversary of Mao Zedong‘s historic swim in the Yangtze River. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Pádraig Mallon, Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services. Success cannot always be measured by a finish line. On July 11th, Team 210oSOUTHWEST set off from Cushendal to travel to the Mull of Kintyre for the start of their Dál Riata channel crossing attempt. First attempted in 1928 by Mercedes Gleitze, the 17 km
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “We had another great race in Turks & Caicos this year with far more people,” reports Ben Stubenberg at the Race For The Conch Eco-SeaSwim. “The race seems it has really caught on.” “Six years ago in 2010, the first Turks & Caicos “Race for the Conch” Eco-SeaSwim could
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