To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bruckner Chase created a short documentary film under a grant from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. The film, BlueJourney – Amerika Samoa – Stronger Together: The Waterman’s Way, was selected for the Beneath the Waves Global Film Festival in Santa Cruz, California. Chase’s film is connecting with people as […]
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Bill May and Denny Cullom race head-to-head for 10 km in Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marisa Frieder went from becoming the first person to complete the 10.7-mile (17.2 km) Portland Bridge Swim down the Willamette River through the heart of Portland, Oregon to a passionate race director. After her unprecedented success in 2010, Frieder has been organizing the Portland Bridge Swim for others to
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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. When it comes to working efficiently, birds, cyclists and open water swimmers have something important in common. Ken Thompson has a theory called organizational biomimetics. According to this theory, geese and other animals naturally form groups whose principles that are widely known and used by cyclists and open water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of the coolest things in open water swimming is finishing a swim by catching a towering ocean swell, skimming down its face, and bodysurfing to shore. There is a thrill in sprinting to be picked up by the energy of the wave, being thrush forward by its motion,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the International Aquatic History Symposium and Film Festival in 2012, Professor Atsunori Matsui, Professor Toshiaki Goya, and Hiroyasu Satake presented a paper entitled The History and Problem of Swimming Education in Japan.* The aquatic researchers noted that swimming has long been performed in the island nation of Japan
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Photo of dolphin fruit cup courtesy of Stacey Kelly of Redding, California.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Phil White created the In Search of Memphre race from Newport, Vermont in the United States to Magog, Quebec in Canada, he revived an old professional marathon swim. The Traversée Internationale du lac Memphrémagog, one of the great races on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Nepal New Generation Trek and Adventure is helping organize Nejib Belhedi‘s attempt to complete the highest Mount Everest Swim. It is a tall order. The Nepal New Generation Trek and Adventure support team is composed of 4 Nepalese climbers who specialize in logistical support and rescue operations on
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