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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Surfers know it. Sailors know it. And a handful of open water swimmers know it. The Skeleton Coast along Namibia in the southwest of the African continent is another example of a relatively untouched and unexplored part of the open water swimming world. As the cool Benguela Current flows […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sea Lion Island (Spanish: Isla de los Leones Marinos) is the largest of the Sea Lion Island Group and the southernmost island in the Falklands archipelago. It is 9 square kilometers (3 square miles) in area and a breeding territory for the huge southern elephant seals. At 7.8 km
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If there is one creature that we would hate to run into, it is the vampire squid. The scary-looking species has blue blood, big eyes, and filaments that flap wide open to enable them to swim. Fortunately, the unique squid occupy the oceans at depths between 600 and 900
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last week, New Caledonia created the world’s largest natural protected area, called Le Parc Naturel de la Mer de Corail (the Natural Park of the Coral Sea), a 1.3 million square km region of the Pacific Ocean. Molly Bergen of Conservation International explains the creation behind Le Parc Naturel
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Courtesy of MacGillivray Freeman Films from the IMAX documentary Journey to the South Pacific.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “There is nothing like a good swim to celebrate life and freedom,” says Ram Barkai about the Freedom Swim last week. The Freedom Swim is an annual 7.5 km swim from Robben Island to Big Bay in Cape Town, South Africa. “However, it is never easy and never will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diego Degano is an Honour Swimmer from Argentina who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1995. A world-class professional marathon swimmer during the 1990s, he is now campaigning to become a local politician in Santa Fe, Argentina. He won the 40 km (25-mile) Traversée
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Courtesy of Bob Burnside, recipient of the 2014 Paragon Award for Water Safety by the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Brad McVetta led 18 swimmers from 10 states at the 2013 Cold Water Classic in Connecticut. Race founder and director Andy Davis said, “The water was 47ºF (8.3ºC), but 18 swimmers got in and out safely. The weather was warm without a breeze in the low 60ºF’s at finish.
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Bob Burnside, Missing The Beach And Leaving A Legacy Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As California waterman Bob Burnside has been spending time skiing in Eden, Utah for a few years, his legacy continues along the shorelines of the Pacific Ocean, from Australia to America. “I have been hiding in the mountains with the
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