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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of the most innovative aquatic therapy programs and open water swimming initiatives in the world is the Ocean Swimming & Prone Paddleboarding program for Athletes with Spinal Cord Injuries. Becky McGill, Bruckner Chase, and Michelle Evans-Chase, together with the Bacharach Rehabilitation Hospital and the City of Upper Township […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Brenton Williams (butterfly), Kendal Wright and Kyle Harris swam an unprecedented 8 km last week around the Cape St Francis Lighhouse and Shark Point on the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. In the 17ºC (62ºF) water, the trio took on the ocean turbulence for 3 hours 38 minutes.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jon Erikson, trained by Rosemary George, is shown emerging from the English Channel at the age 14 finishing in 11 hours 23 minutes on August 12th 1969. Erikson is being recognized by the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and by the International Marathon Swimming Hall
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai’s Jinshan City Beach, FINA introduced high-tech sonar equipment from Japan as a means to keep athletes safe in the open water swimming championships. FINA invested US$300,000 in two sonar units that were used for the first time, sweeping the course every
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pace swimmers, escort swimmers, pacemaker, support swimmer are swimmers who swim alongside another swimmer, either in workout or during a solo swim. A pace swimmer creates an ambiance of support and camaraderie in the water while swimming. The solo swimmer can feel connected with their pace swimmer because they
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In some USA Swimming and U.S. Masters Swimming pool competitions, deck changing is prohibited, while in other competitions deck-changing is allowed albeit strongly discouraged by the meet directors. But along the shorelines and coastal areas around the world, deck changing – or the act of wrapping a towel around
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doug Woodring is pleased to announce the third annual Hong Kong-San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival with a warm-up screening on April 29th at iSquare with the movie Planet Ocean and some amazing ocean footage. “Each nightly screening shows a number of different films, short and long, allowing for
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Adam Walker, known as Mad Adam, and his protective pod of dolphins in the Cook Strait are quite the online hit: For more information on Mad Adam’s swim, visit here. Mad Adam will also be one of the featured speakers at the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Isle of Bute, Scotland. Copyright ©
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The boys of Guadeloupe showed the ocean swimming prowess and potential at Sabana Basora in Aruba for the second year in a row at the XXIX CARIFTA Swimming Championships. They placed 3 of the top 6 in the 13-14 age group and 3 of the top 7 in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Joanna Evans of Bahamas was the high point scorer at the XXIX CARIFTA Swimming Championships that were held in Savaneta, Aruba. In both the pool and the 5 km open water swim, the versatile 16-year-old swimmer shone in the annual Caribbean age group swimming championships. A 5 km ocean
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