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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The world has innumerable difficult open water swimming competitions which is part of the challenge and allure of the sport. Rough conditions, cold water, sharks, jellyfish, tides, currents, long distances, high altitudes and logistical considerations are the primary obstacles. Everyone has a weakness when it comes to open water […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kiko Hervás, a two-time Olympian and professional marathon swimmer, is now spending his time as a race director of the Clàssica de Natació Peníscola-Benicarló, sharing his passion and knowledge among amateur open water swimmers. The Peníscola-Benicarló Classic is the 22nd 7.5 km crossing between North Beach and City Beach
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The world has innumerable difficult open water swimming competitions. But that is part of the challenge and allure. Rough conditions, cold water, sharks, jellyfish, tides, currents, long distances, high altitudes and logistical considerations are the primary obstacles. Everyone has a weakness when it comes to open water swimming. Weakness
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Some of the toughest, most hardened professional marathon swimmers in the world participated in the 1972 Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean. It was a particularly tough swim from Péribonka to Roberval in Quebéc, Canada. The race across the nearly circular lake was not a simple 32 km point-to-point race.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are a whole lotta people enjoying themselves at the Neda el Món events in Spain. Neda el Món‘s approach is to promote, enhance and enable people of all ages to challenge themselves in non-competitive open swims for their fitness and enjoyment. Neda el Món organizes circumnavigations, marathon swims,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adrian Sarchet knows what it takes to succeed in the open water: patience. The 39-year-old swimmer and Advocate from Guernsey has completed 2 of the 7 channels of the Oceans Seven with the English Channel, Catalina Channel, and Guernsey circumnavigation done and accounted for. But a shoulder injury plagued
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1. Sight too much. 2. Sight too little. 3. Get Vaseline on your googles. 4. Start at the front if you are not going to run/swim fast. 5. Go the wrong way around a turn buoy. 6. Keep tapping on the feet of the swimmer in front of you. 7. Wait to go to the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If you find yourself swimming in rivers or estuaries in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Borneo, watch out for the giant freshwater stingray. The bottom-dwelling species can grow upwards to 1.9 meters across and may reach 600 kg in weight, but it faces heavy fishing pressure
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The humble Sandra Bucha will be inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Open Water Swimmer in June in Florida to add to her recognition as being selected as an Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame this September in Scotland As
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Given the era, circumstances, and global expanse of her swims, there has been arguably no greater aquatic adventurer than Mercedes Gleitze. From Ireland and Spain to South Africa and Australia, she went often went swimming where no man (or woman) went before her. Without jet transportation, GPS, or others
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