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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. South Africa’s Philip Emslie is accomplished swimmer in both competitive pool swimming and masters swimming, but he also arguably has among the widest range of aquatic abilities of any open water swimmer in the world – at least water temperature-wise. Not only does Emslie hold the third fastest ice […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Qatar is among the seven countries preparing bids to host the FINA World Swimming Championships in either 2021 or 2023. Qatar was the host of FINA’s 25m pool swimming championships in 2014, but the country bordering the Persian Gulf would also be responsible for holding the pool swimming, diving,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the first day of summer, Wallace J. Nichols’ 100 Days of Blue campaign begins. Dr. Nichols is an author, speaker, and researcher who created the Blue Mind Collective that annually and virtually brings together leading voices from diverse backgrounds including athletes, entrepreneurs, explorers, artists, neuroscientists and psychologists to
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In helping Jamie Patrick plan and prepare for his The Long Swim, a 78-mile attempt in the Caribbean Sea, jellyfish expert Dr. Angel Yanagihara provided a probability list of encountering box jellyfish in the sea around Eleuthera in the Bahamas. “I have been to Eleuthera and done a good
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. David Burke is an open water swimmer from Ireland and member of the Camlough Lake Water Festival and Newry Triathlon Club. Burke faced trauma early in life at the age of 7 when he had his leg leg amputated as a result of a car accident in 1972. He
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine going over to your home office, designing your own swimsuit, and then printing it out on your desktop 3D printer. Electroloom, the world’s first 3D fabric printer, can make it happen in the future. With Electroloom’s new 3D printing technology, just recently funded on Kickstarter, swimmers may be
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming was initially established to help share information about the open water swimming community in the build-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. The first articles appeared on January 20th 2008 and focused on a variety of topics competitive open water
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Curtesy of WOWSA from Huntington Beach, California. It is a fact that swimmers are often the first responder in open water swims when there is a distressed swimmer on the course. Although safety personnel, lifeguards, officials, and volunteers create a safety net on the course as they keep eyes on the swimmers, there are occasionally
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Sink Or Swim. What Can You Do In A Shipwreck? Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Every now and then, there are news reports of shipwrecks around the world and the unfortunate deaths and heroic rescues that result. Many of these shipwrecks occur close to shore and are within a relatively easy swim to shore
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Courtesy of Ori Sela from Israel. Ori Sela’s detailed recipe for marathon swimmers is here: 1. Cut 6 units of fruits that you like: banana, pear, papaya, peach or anything else to little pieces. 2. Boil water in a pot, add the fruit to the boiling water and let it cook until they’re soft. 3.
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