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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Professor Victor Moskvin from Novosibirsk in Siberia, Russia will present a speech on cold water swimming at the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. The renowned Russian ice swimmer has researched and experienced a wide variety of experiences by extreme swimmers in Lake […]
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Sueno88 from vito bialla on Vimeo.Courtesy of Sueño 88 from, Vito Bialla of the Night Train Swimmers. Copyright © 2014 by Night Train Swimmers
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “In grateful memory of those who won a victory for freedom on D-Day 1944, the Overlord 70 relay swim team crossed the Channel from England to France today in 12 hours and 8 minutes. May God bless those to whom we all owe so much,” from Sea Satin off
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The inspiration for the Oceans Seven was mountaineering’s Seven Summits, the 7 highest mountains on each continent. However, it needed a bit of modification because Antarctica was a bit too cold so 7 of the world’s most challenging channels geographically spread out around the world were selected. The selection,
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The legend of Memphre© is here presented by the Kingdom Swim in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Billy Connor, the first person to swim across Lake Memphremagog between the United States and Canada in 1955 in 18 hours 55 minutes, was one of the first swimmers to meet Memphre©. He talked about the old times
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alexey Salmin and Dmitry Dragozhilov, Director of Winter Swimming of Tyumen Region in Russia, will give a fascinating presentation on the 2016 Winter Swimming World Championships in Tyumen, Russia at the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. The speech title in Russia by
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Two-time Olympic 10K Marathon Swim athlete Ky Hurst from Australia is shown competing in the Deep Water competition.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swim Across America is hosting its 2nd annual Swim Across Lake Michigan (SALM) relay. David McClellan explains, “It will be open to 20-25 swimmers who raise at least US$3,000. It’s a relay format, with swimmers of like speeds swimming in groups of 2-4 people for 30 minute or 60
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Courtesy of The Great Lake Swim by Jamie Patrick, produced by Doug Stanley of Ridgeline Entertainment. For more information, visit here. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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The Life And Times Of Jim Doty Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Third Annual James J. Doty Memorial Mile Swim was held at the L Street Bathhouse (Curley Community Center) in South Boston, Massachusetts. 51 swimmers up and down the Eastern Seaboard ventured in the Boston Bay waters to celebrate the life and
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