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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alison ‘Sunshine’ Chavez hit a roadblock. The currents were not only going against her, but the waves figuratively slammed her down against the ocean floor. But the setback – breast cancer – only made her stronger. Her uplifting story – still to be finished – is here. Facebook created […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Madonna Buder, known as Sister Madonna or the Iron Nun, knows how to swim…and bike and run. The 83-year-old Roman Catholic nun from Spokane, Washington, will be inducted in the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame on June 26th in Chicago at the ITU World Triathlon Chicago. as an Age-Group
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. French Creek Racing kicked off its series of 800m open water swimming races in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania at 7 pm this Tuesday night. The start of the 6-part 800m sprint series was in 62ºF water against the current in the Schuylkill River – 400m against the current and 400m with
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Bernie Butler BASRA Swim Marathon has one really cool race poster that befits its really cool ocean swim. The 44th annual Bernie Butler BASRA Swim Marathon will be held at Coral Beach in Grand Bahama. The 2013 event was won by 13-year-old Alec Sands of Nassau in a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After Rob Ouldcott did his own English Channel swim in 2012, he served as the coach the Six Girls No Buoys, a team of six 13-year-old girls who crossed the English Channel in 2013 in 13 hours 6 minutes under the direction of escort pilot Eddie Spelling. Rob Ouldcott,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine 750 tropical islands, reefs, islets, atolls, and cays in the South China Sea. With over 600 coral reefs that are important habitats for many seabirds and sea turtles, the ocean swimming must be gorgeous in the Spratly Islands, especially because of many low-lying islands, sunken reefs, and atolls
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Judy Collins is one of those rare individuals who are known for more than one great thing in the annals of open water swimming history. Collins was not only the first woman to swim from one Hawaiian island to another, but she was also instrumental in introducing open water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Guanabara Bay is not Copacabana Beach. We find it unfortunate that there are some people in the aquatics world who believe that media reports (e.g., see AP report here) imply or infer that the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim either will be cancelled or should be moved from Rio de
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 135 people registered for the Grey Liston Memorial Pier to Pier Swim in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina over the weekend. David Sokolofsky, Head Coach of Waves of Wilmington, said the race went quite well. “The race was held north to south from the Johnnie Mercer’s Pier to Crystal Pier.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Not only do jellyfish sting and are problematic to many open water swimmers, but Professor Shin Kubota of Kyoto University’s Seto Marine Biological Laboratory is also researching if and how Japan’s tiny Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish can regenerate itself to become young again. “Out of all the animals in the
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