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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Jeff Kozlovich and Steve Haumschild are organizing the first Ka’iwi Channel Swim this August and entries are pouring in. 28 miles across the Ka’iwi Channel from Kaluako’i on the west shore of Molokai to Sandy Beach on the east shore of Oahu. In a few words, it will be the gnarliest, riskiest, most difficult relay […]
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NEKOWSA (Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association) was established in Derby, Vermont in 2010 to promote and organize swims in the legendary lakes of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, a wonderfully beautiful part of the eastern United States. From the very beginning of the NEKOWSA, the passion and professionalism shown by Phil White and his
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The Swim Miami event has reached its goal and is now going even further. Swim Miami was started in the previous century in order to help generate momentum in the aquatics world for inclusion of open water swimming into the Olympic Games. Founded by serial entrepreneur Jim Woodman, the event generated plenty of excitement and
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Science Magazine reported that Climate Change Will Boost Plane Turbulence. The world will get windier in the future claims a new study published today in Nature Climate Change. Researchers made these predictions based on simulated atmospheric conditions at altitudes where airplane fly over the North Atlantic. While the analysis made assumptions to predict patterns of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As Jennifer Figge sets off on her fourth crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, reports of a rogue wave that stopped 4 American and Canadian athletes who were attempting to row across the Atlantic Ocean have surfaced. Adam Kreek, Markus Pukonen, Patrick Fleming, and Jordan Hanssen were in their 10th
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Tatiana Vertiz is a professional triathlete and two-time age-group world triathlon champion who has done dozens of endurance events including Ironman triathlons. At a chance meeting in a training clinic, the former tennis player from Texas found she had all kinds of commonalities – and a love of the open water – with professional marathon
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimming is in his blood. The Mexican Olympian has embraced aquatic sports like few others. Starting out as a youngster in Mexico, Robert Strauss gradually worked his way up to world class level, eventually facing off with Mark Spitz in the 1972 Munich Olympics. But he has never retired.
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Where is the next swim? How far is it? When is the race? How do I enter? What is the cost? What about the water temperature? Are you going? These are just some of the questions triathletes and open water swimmers have when considering their next event. There are dozens of online open water swimming
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When a child gazes upon the ocean and sees his mother or father swimming in the open water, sometimes struggling, what can he possibly be thinking? Is dad cold? Is mom tired? Is dad hungry? Will mom make it? Possibly in some cases, but more likely the child is thinking that swimming in the open
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854 swimmers took to the waters around Watson Island at the Miami Yacht Club at the World Open Water Swimming Association-sanctioned Swim Miami race. It was eye-opening celebration of fitness and fun for swimmers of all ages and abilities including Jana Mangimelli and Ronald Santos (10 km), Luane Rowe and Blake O Woodrow (5 km),
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