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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. SwimEars are specialized ear plugs for open water swimmers and triathletes that protect against ear inflammation and dizziness without affecting hearing and balance, co-created by Danish open water swimmer Hans Henrik H. Heming. He just started his Kickstarter campaign for SwimEars here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ice swimming, marathon swimming, ocean swimming, channel swimming, pioneer swimming, kayaking, organizing, observing and volunteering. Lisa Hertz and Jason Malick do it all. The pair, once engaged both literally and figuratively, are all about the open water. So when it came to their marriage, the pair naturally celebrated to
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Courtesy of Bruckner Chase, Monmouth County, New Jersey. When it comes to open water swimming, there are two types of pros: professional marathon swimmers and lifeguards. While the marathon swimmers swim for themselves as a livelihood, surf life savers swim (and run and rescue and patrol) on behalf of others as a profession. South Jersey
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Karelia hosts the final stage of the Three Swims Tour, an amateur open water swimming competition in Russia. The first stage of the Three Swims Tour takes part in Kostomuksha on July 11th in Karelia, a one-nautical mile swim and 3 km distance on Kontokki Lake with the expected
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I will be leaving from Palos Verdes around 9 pm tonight [to to swim across the Catalina Channel from Mainland to Catalina Island],” says Hank Wise, a waterman and coach from SWIM Long Beach, California who has previously done an 8 hour 7 minute crossing (#7 all-time) in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Patty Hermann has a distinct disadvantage when it comes to hanging the marathon swimming royalty in coolish or colder water where some of the tougher and more iconic marathon swims are held. “When I have to tell people that I travel north to get to a swim event in
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Courtesy of Wyatt Song, high up on the Tibetan Plateau. Pádraig Mallon called his swim with Wyatt Song, Milo McCourt and many Chinese a very technically difficult short (500m) swim across the Yellow River at an altitude of 2,200 meters on the Tibetan Plateau in northwest China. High up at an altitude of 2,200 meters
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 6 Swim 4 Peace is a 280 km all-female relay in the Mediterranean Sea scheduled for October. They will start 30 miles north of Port Said, Egypt, swim to Ashdod, Israel, and then head northward to Herzliya, Israel. Idith Ron (55), Vered Ben Herut (48), Limor Barak, Efrat Aloni,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Milko van Gool completed a 44 km solo swim from Medemblik-Stavoren-Medemblik in the Ijsselmeer in 13 hours 51 minutes. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Photo courtesy of Matt Propert, Fenwick Island, Delaware. Matt Propert is a freelance photographer from Santa Cruz, California who produces beautifully impactful images for exhibitions and National Geographic Society books and special edition magazines. At his family cottage on Fenwick Island nestled in The Quiet Resorts along the Delaware shoreline, Propert captured thousands of images
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