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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. England to France … Scotland to Northern Ireland … China to Taiwan … U.S.A. to Canada … Cuba to U.S.A. … Mexico to Cuba … Russia to Japan … Chile to Argentina … Japan to Taiwan … Jamaica to Cuba … Hong to Macau … India to Sri Lanka
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With his togs on, he is known as a cold-water swimmer and channel relay swimmer. With his shades on, he is known as an escort pilot. With a GPS in his hands, he is known as a navigator. As a fund-raiser extraordinaire, he is known as a Night Train
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “The swims in Montenegro are great,” says Martin Strel of Strel. “A warm Adriatic Sea is waiting. We have few places left on June trips. Our Montenegro trip offers an incredible setting for a great sea and fjord swimming adventure. The country used to be a former constituent of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Oswald Schmidt was honored as the 2013 Sandycove Island Volunteer of the Year. Ned Denison of the Sandycove Island Swim Club Committee explains, “Ossie put in a tremendous year in helping to leading three major events. He served as the Co-Chairman of the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today Jacques Tuset of France completed his fourth prison island swim from Robben Island to Cape Town in 2 hours 2 minutes 57 seconds. Ned Denison, creator of the Triple Break and Quatro Break, said, “Jacques plans several more prison swims this year to take him to 7 total.
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The Perfect Ideal Of A Female Swimmer Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Friendly and fit, intelligent and innovative, personable and professional. These are just some of the characteristics that define the masters swimmers who enter adult swimming competitions from the 2014 U.S. Masters Swimming National Championships to the FINA World Masters Swimming Championships. From
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With 2,250 masters swimmers walking around the George Haines International Swim Center in Santa Clara, California at the 2014 U.S. Masters Swimming National Championships, the sights around the famed pool deck are like living advertisements for optimal health and happiness. So many swimmers of all ages are fantastically fit
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daniel Start is looking for some researchers and photographers who can help Wild Things Publishing create a new Wild Swimming book on Spain, France, and Scandinavia. “We are beginning work on a Spanish guide and a new updated French guide and we need researchers and photographers to visit locations
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Larry Countryman, a former world-class swimmer from Harvard and swimming coach from Northern California, tells of a telling story of how one Olympian got him into open water swimming. “She was at a U.S. Masters Swimming pool competition where she got third in a distance event – the same
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