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Video courtesy of Dillon Powell on location at Lake Cane, Florida together with Lucky Meisenheimer who hosts daily open water swims and numerous events for swimmers of all ages and abilities, including Lucky’s Lake Swim. There are few who do so much for the local open water swimming community as Lucky does, from hosting to […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Bob Luce thought it was a good idea if my daughter Kristin Collins Galbreaith and I would become the first mother-daughter channel swimmers in Hawaii back in 1978,” recalls Judy Collins, the co-founder of the Hawaiian Ironman triathlon. Kristin was a top competitive pool swimmer in Hawaii at the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bob Luce crossed the Maui Channel in May 1977 together with Bob Justman and Judy Collins in 6 hours 30 minutes. “I will say that the Maui Channel swim cured me of long distance swimming. I do swim 45 minutes ever day now though, but in a pool. The
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of the sponsors of the Simon Holliday‘s 35 km Clean Cross Swim from Hong Kong to Macau was Ocean Recovery Alliance. During the swim across the Pearl River Delta, Doug Woodring collected a variety of debris for later analysis. Simple collection of garbage and junk in the sea
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Richard P. Feynman was a revolutionary thinker who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics. He once said, “I have a friend who’s an artist…He’ll hold up a flower and say ‘look how beautiful it is,’ and I’ll agree. Then he says ‘I as an artist can see how
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad will deliver the 2014 Middlebury College commencement address at 10 am today. Best known for her swimming, she was frequently in the public eye throughout her career. She spent 3 decades writing, reporting, and broadcasting for National Public Radio, Fox Sports, ABC’s Wide World of Sports, New
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo shows Jon Erikson, trained by Rosemary George at the age 14, emerging from a successful crossing of the English Channel in 11 hours 23 minutes on August 12th 1969. Erikson will be inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Open Water Swimmer after a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “…When you achieve your dreams, it’s not so much what you get. It’s who you become…” So began the commencement speech by Diana Nyad at Middlebury College in Vermont. She shared a plethora of advice that tied a memory from the 1968 USA Swimming Olympic Trials to her life’s
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Susan Simmons and Alex Cape completed a 34 km swim across Cowichan Lake in British Columbia, Canada last year. They plan to step up their game this summer in a major way: they are planning a double crossing of Cowichan Lake in August. If a 70 km double crossing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As Simon Holliday headed to Macau from Hong Kong on his 35 km Clean Cross Swim across the Pearl River Delta, he was among, behind, and between frolicking pink and white dolphins for over an hour during the crossing. While he safely finished the crossing in record time, 10