To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
GILLS is a science fiction adventure novel with a focus on swimming. GILLS is a story for pre-teens, teenagers and young adults. “It is a story of self-discovery, self-empowerment and self-acceptance,” explains author K.M. MacKinnon. “One day, the heroine is a typical student going to school, swimming on the swim team and chatting on her […]
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Today is the 87th anniversary of the first successful crossing by a woman of the Catalina Channel. On February 5th 1927, Myrtle Huddleston swam the Catalina Channel in 20 hours 42 minutes about 3 weeks after lasting 7 hours in her first attempt during the Wrigley Ocean Marathon in January 15th 1927 and less than
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Trained as an airbrush artist/illustator with a degree in advertising art, surfer, windsurfer, swimmer and pilot Colin A Gift‘s ‘brush’ of choice is now a digital camera. “My passion for images in all types of medium has allowed me to enter into this format easily, putting me on a new path in my career. I
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Who are open water swimmers? How old are they? What are the demographics of the sport? We took a look at the make-up of the open water swimmers at two popular mass participation races: the 2.8 km State Harbour Crossing in Auckland of the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series and the Waikiki Roughwater Swim in
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Gever Tulley is the founder of the Tinkering School. He explained in his TED Talk [see below] five dangerous things you should let your kids do and describes why a little danger and these fiver things are ultimately good for both kids and grownups: 1. Play with fire.2. Own a pocket knife.3. Throw a spear.4.
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Alison Cardwell Receives Ted Keenan Shield Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alison Cardwell received the 2013 Irish Long Distance Swimming Association‘s Ted Keenan Shield for Ulster Open Water Swimmer of the Year at the ILDSA Awards ceremony this past weekend. At the 2013 ILDSA Awards, Cardwell was awarded the newly commissioned piece made by
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Sitting on the tropical beach on Beachcomber Island auring the post-race festivities of the 18 km Fiji Swims inter-island relay, four generations of Olympic medalists were discussing their toughest workouts. Shane Gould, Murray Rose, Dana Vollmer, and Allison Wagner shared their love of the open water and how relaxing it is to swim in tropical
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The Open Water Development Committee that consists of coaches, athletes, USA Swimming staff and administrators, instituted a rule change to the qualification standards for 2015 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships at the 2013 United States Aquatic Sports Convention. Although only 4 athletes will be impacted, USA Swimming decided that the winner of each
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With snow creating a nice frame around Windermere, the second Big Chill Swim took place over a wintery weekend in Windermere, England’s largest lake. With a warm smile and reportedly ice in his veins, race organizer Colin Hill converted the Low Wood Bay Marina into an open air swimming pool for the spectacular winter swimming
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