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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Josh Heynes of the Lake Erie Open Water Swimming Association, is currently looking at a go date of July 15th for 17-year-old Norman Stark Jr.‘s swim across Lake Erie. “As of now, the winds, waves and weather looks favorable; however, we all know the weather forecast can change 1000 […]
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Photo of Kirsten Cameron by Antonia Steeg. Article by Kirsten Cameron of EC6, Total Immersion in the English Channel. When swimming in the pool its very clear how long a race is and measurements are consistent between pools and countries around the globe. Therefore a time for 50m free is a time for 50m free
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Simon Holliday and Shu Pu will give a talk on their Clean Cross Swim on July 17th at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club on Kellett Island in Causeway Bay. The 35-year-old swimmer and his escort kayaker will explain their May 24th swim that took 10 hours 20 minutes
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anna Lominadze of Georgia is following in the wake of such luminaries as Harry Houdini, Jack LaLanne and Paolo Eros Cerizzi (“Dolphinman“). Renowned for their exploits, Houdini escaped while handcuffed; LaLanne swam up and down America’s West Coast while handcuffed; Dolphinman swam across the Strait of Messina in Sicily
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tita Llorens has done all kinds of marathon swims among the islands of the Balearic islands of Menorca and Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea. The president of the Menorca Channel Swimming Association completed the 37 km Menorca Channel (Canal de Menorca) that stretches between Menorca and Mallorca in 2012
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Although sleek, modern, architecturally significant pools currently dominate the global media coverage of swimming, mankind has been swimming in the open bodies of water for millennium. Historically speaking, pool swimming is a recent, contemporary luxury. Coach Peter Daland and Phil Whitten, authored a wonderfully entertaining book with many original
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is unprecedented for the endurance athlete community and general public to witness exactly what happens during an ultra-marathon swim. While news coverage, photos and bits and pieces of video of ultra-marathon swimmers have been shown over the past century, Jamie Patrick and Ridgeline Entertainment will bring a pioneering
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Support crew and relay swimmers also can get seasick, especially while sitting on a slow-moving, diesel-powered boat in a turbulent seat. Crew members and relay swimmers occasionally use skin patches (with transdermal anticholinergic drugs), antihistamines (including brands such as Benadryl and Dramamine), acupressure wristbands, and various forms of ginger
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Night Lights Inside SafeSwimmer™ Floats Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lucky’s Midnight Lake Swim, a late night lake swim hosted by Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer in Lake Cane, Florida use the SafeSwimmer™ Float in its events. The open water swimmers very cleverly put their night lights inside their SafeSwimmer Floats at night. Copyright © 2008
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Courtesy of Hanalei Bay Swim Challenge on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. The Namolokama O Hanalei Canoe Club located on the North shore of Kauai hosts the annual Hanalei Bay Swim Challenge as a charity swim on behalf of its non-profit Hawaiian outrigger canoe organization. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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