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An Extraordinarily Powerful Film Of Adventure Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was the most dangerous and risky open water swim in history. During the Bering Strait Swim from Cape Dezhnev in Chukotka, Russia, to Cape Prince of Wales in the state of Alaska, U.S.A. (via Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands), there were […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Raise the Bar (RTB) is a group of swimmers, runners, cyclists, and multisport athletes that provides training and produces events in the Puget Sound area in the state of Washington. RTB’s mission is to create opportunities for fun and personal achievement through multisport and events like its Friday Night
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 24 swimmers raced 3 different courses (5 km, 7.5 km, 10 km) at the Point-a-Pierre Yatch Club Harbour in Point-a-Pierre, Trinidad in qualification races for the Caribbean Island Swimming Championships and the FINA Junior World Open Water Swimming Championships in the 14-17 and 18 & over categories. Carifta Swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Before Sueño 88 becomes the first humans to swim 88 nautical miles (101 miles or 163 km) across the Sea of Cortez from the Baja California peninsula to the mainland of Mexico, many things must first occur. Before captains Vito Bialla, Alejandro Abarroa, and Antonio Caballero take David Ogden,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. SpaceShipTwo, a six-passenger spaceship developed by Virgin Galactic, is set to take off on its first commercial space flight by the end of this year. So far, more than 700 people have paid to fly on the suborbital spaceship. With ticket prices now selling for US$250,000, the unique ride
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over 600 swimmers from 7 countries participated in the 9th edition of El Cruce, also known as Por La Libre, Cancún to Isla Mujeres, one of the World’s Top 100 Open Water Swims. It is a beautifully two-race event from Cancún to Isla Mujeres in Quintana Roo in southern
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Photo of Kirsten Cameron by Antonia Steeg. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. New Zealand masters swimmer Kirsten Cameron, a world record holder in the pool and a world-class open water swimmer, is the only female on the EC6 relay (Total Immersion in the English Channel). Faced with a crew of men and 5 male
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Randy Soler of Boulder Aquatic Masters is pushing Matthew Moseley far and fast, applying a training philosophy and methodology not widely used in the marathon swimming world. Moseley will attempt a 25-mile swim across Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, a traverse that has never been accomplished before. For a swim
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Courtesy of Ricardo Ratto in the heart of South America. In the heart of South America, in Brazil, in clean blue waters, in a lake formed by the dam of the hydropower plant named Lageado, along the Tocantins River, in the city of Palmas, Tocantins State, the Desafio 8K (8K Challenge) is an extraordinarily nice
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anna Cummins, Executive Director of The 5 Gyres Institute, announced that the 5 Gyres Institute, a team of scientists, artists, filmmakers, advocates, educators and students, will embark on its Viking Gyre Expedition in June. “Our return to the North Atlantic allows 5 Gyres to follow up on unanswered questions,
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