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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While stinger suits are used by only a very small handful of open water swimmers around the world during swims where the danger of box jellyfish and other venomous marine life exist, the issue has attracted the attention and interest of the marathon swimming world (see here). Because so […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When the filth and garbage of the city streets flow off the urban landscape of municipalities around the world, these discards of society often find their way to the world’s oceans. Swimming into kelp or seaweed in the oceans is one thing, but hitting plastic bottles and bags is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. From shorelines in Hawaii lined with plastic bottles to rivers spewing plastic discards into the oceans, the world and its waters are becoming more covered in plastic on a daily basis. Plasticity Forum is a one-day business conference on the future of plastic and where industry leaders are going
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Hong Kong – San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival 2014 will collaborate with the Ocean Art Walk and many filmmakers around the world “Join us again for the 3rd Annual Hong Kong – San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival,” invites Doug Woodring of the host organization Ocean Recovery
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Simon Holliday is a British adventurer living in Hong Kong. Besides his English Channel in 2011 of 15 hours 2 minutes, he volunteered to be the pace swimmer, decoy, bodyguard, and escort for Dan Martin on his planned stage swim leg across the Atlantic Ocean on the Global Triathlon.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Crossing the North Channel is acknowledged as one of the most difficult open water swims in the world. The 21-mile traverse between Scotland and Ireland was an easy selection for one of the Oceans Sevens. Pádraig Mallon and his colleagues of the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association definitively defined
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tune into RED FM and Spirit radio to hear Claudia and her team announced and bring race updates, promotions, and coverage of the 2014 First National Kimberley Lake Argyle Swim, a 10 km and 20 km solo, duo and quad relay competition in Western Australia on May 3rd. Event
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jemma Dessauvagie, a former Australian national water polo player, will take part in the 20 km Lake Argyle Swim. She debuted on the Australian national water polo team at the age of 18. During her lengthy career, Dessauvagie played a total of 58 international games and competed at three
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the rough water conditions of Playa del Carmen, Mexico when stiff winds caused plenty of surface chop and more than a few whitecaps, it was a reminder on how important it is for open water swimmers to have a strong core. A strong core enables you to swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In a breakaway lead pack of 11 competitive women familiar with one another, it was only Italy’s Martina Grimaldi who could hold off the Brazilian onslaught of Poliana Okimoto and Ana Marcela Cunha. In a race that had 6 red flags called for disqualifications on a tight course of
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