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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This conversation has centered around drugs and substances introduced into the human body. But we are now entering the era where different manufactured parts are being introduced to the human body whether it is a pacemaker or hearing aid. I just came back from my lab at the Harvard […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Start-up companies from the Bay Area and Silicon Valley are constantly coming up with cool ideas and product ideas. The San Francisco-based Instabeat is no different. Its engineers are working on a unique device that attaches to swimming goggles and captures real-time heart rate data as well as the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We had only seen the islands from a distance and did not know exactly what we had to face. We had to hike down a sea cliff after traveling about an hour by train and taxi. By the time we reached the sea and started, the tidal flow was
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adriano Passini‘s The Challenge of the English Channel: A Spiritual Approach of the Mount Everest Swimming will be available on Kindle Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Southern Ocean, Antarctica. UN Environment Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh is raising awareness about the need to protect Antarctica‘s seas through a series of swims under extreme conditions. He wishes to add three marine protected areas to Antarctica by 2020 in the #Antarctica2020 campaign.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Shelley Taylor-Smith is organizing the Team STS Turkey Tour at the Bosphorous Strait Swim & Gallipoli Swim. The tour is open to only 100 Australians and New Zealanders. Option 1 includes the Bosphorous Swim in Turkey. Option 2 includes the Gallipoli Swim Tour (no race) Copyright © 2016 by
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Among the Best Organised Open Water Swims that were recognized at the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association ceremonies in Belfast, the Wild Atlantic Swim, Liffey Swim, and WOTS stood out. The fifth Wild Atlantic Big Swim was a sea swim from Arranmore Island to Burtonport in Ireland in August
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Hello Steve, TOWER 26’s “Be Race Ready” podcast series episode #25 on triathlon swimming is loaded for listening. Thanks for sharing these podcasts with your friends and fellow athletes; its been incredible the listenership growth we’ve had. Jim and I discuss the optimal swim pull for triathletes, reviewing Early
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Courtesy of Wall Street Journal. Courtesy of USC U.S.-China Institute. At a time where swimmers are venturing further and further around the aquatic globe, there is one part of the world where military risks are being elevated.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daily News of Open Water Swimming: Of all the projects that you have done in your illustrious career, where does AltaSea stand in terms of a challenge, potential and opportunity? By far te most challenging and exicint opportunity, that can be said for anyone building a 35 acre campus
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