To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Most of the humans in the world either cannot or do not swim. They may go to the seashore or head to the lakeside, but they never enter the water. They may vacation on a cruise boat or they may fish in rivers, but they never see the aquatic environment from below the surface of […]
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Glenda Carroll is the chairperson of the Pacific Masters Swimming open water swimming committee and frequent organizer of open water swimming workshops and clinics. In addition, she has long been a columnist and writer for local, national and international sailing publications, and has written travel articles for a number of publications. She penned her debut
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This summer, the race to the Oceans Seven is on. But the weather does not seem to want to cooperate…so far. Penny Palfrey (Australia), Michelle Macy (USA), Anna-Carin Nordin (Sweden), and Darren Miller (USA) have all completed 6 of the 7 channels of the Oceans Seven. They are now all lined up for the ultimate
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He always wanted you to reach your potential. He did not care if you were a slower swimmer or the biggest kid on the block or the fastest swimmer. He inspired and he cared. He was a role model and an educator. He coached high schoolers and triathletes. And he was Olympian in the very
Alexis Madgrigal is a senior editor at The Atlantic, an American magazine founded in 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts as a literary and cultural commentary magazine. Madrigal talks about the cookie cutter attack on Mike Spalding in Hawaii in an article entitled, The Most Terrifying Description of Ocean Swimming I’ve Ever Read. While Spalding’s bite is
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One of the original purposes of creating the Daily News of Open Water Swimming was to help make the heroes and heroines of the sport more widely known. From north to south, from east to west, from fresh to salt, from cold to warm, the goal of the Daily News of Open Water Swimming is
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The DART Buoy Array is a global network of tsunameters and surface buoys that serve as an early warning detection system for tsunamis. DART stands for Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis and is a system of ocean floor-anchored tsunameters and surface buoys that are deployed across the oceans to form a monitoring and communications
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Insta-Bro is an individual who immediately becomes a friend due to a common bond such as a passion for adventure or a love of open water swimming. Say you are in a restaurant and you overhear someone talking about the Strait of Messina in Italy, the Rottnest Channel in Australia, or their escort pilot in
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Scott Zornig is the president of the Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association and spends much of his time thinking about, swimming, or helping others achieve their dreams in the open water water. Back during the 1999, Zornig had a close call together with Novaquatics teammates Rick Reeder, Craig Taylor, Dan Sullivan, Tom Landis, Jim Fitzpatrick,
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We posted an article on the concept of Fight-or-Flight Response When Sharks Are Spotted (here). Both Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. and Farallon Islands relay swimmer Cathy Delneo have encountered sharks while in the ocean. They each weighed in about their personal recommendations on how best to deal with the apex predators of the deep.
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