To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
In a public address in FINA’s Aquatics World Magazine, FINA President Julio Maglione spoke of the world of aquatics. “…the competition in the FINA sports (pool swimming, diving, water polo, synchronised swimming and open water swimming) is more interesting than ever, with an increasing number of nations capable of shining at the highest level. This […]
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Elaine Howley has been giving all her life. A bone marrow donor and a former Peace Corps volunteer, her sense of generosity and altruistic unselfishness is evident in the open water. “Marathon swimming is all about helping the next swimmer to reach his or her goals,” she explains with her characteristic cheer. Head to the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The health benefits of safely swimming in the cold have been long documented. As a countermeasure to fight a rash of illnesses at her school 18 year ago, kindergarten director Olesya Osintseva in Barnaul, Russia began a voluntary daily regimen to expose her pupils to 90 seconds of fun
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“We are three weeks out from our 4th annual event to support the Navy SEAL Foundation and are on track to surpass last year’s fundraising total over these next couple of days,” announced Kurt Ott of the Tampa Bay Frogman Swim. The 5 km swim on January 13th from Gandy Beach in St. Petersburg to
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60-year-old Jennifer Figge is getting ready to set sail on her fourth continuous stage swim across the Atlantic Ocean. Her D5000 Dean Catamaran is being readied in Cape Town, South Africa and will soon take off for the Cape Verde Islands, off of Dakar, Senegal in the western Africa, where she will start her adventure
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3-time winner of the King of the Sea competition Trent Grimsey of Australia was the subject of numerous television cameras in Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach. As he dominated the marathon swims and short coastal swims in 2012, his prospects for success in 2013 look very good with the 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona,
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Sometimes, an open water swimmer walks to the shoreline thinking, “Do I swim to the right or do I swim to the left…or just straight out?” Depending on the currents, tides, sun position, marine traffic, rocks, piers, harbors, surfers, kite surfers, windsurfers or other factors, they will head off either hugging the coast or outside
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Swim Don’t Sit University of Queensland researchers studied inactivity and came to a surprising estimation of the cost of just sitting. Based on the television viewing habits of more than 11,000 Australians, the researchers concluded that every hour of prolonged sitting after the age of 25 can reduce 21.8 minutes off your life. In other
A third-year student at Utah State University, Joelle Beard used music and sounds to help her across the English Channel, a feat she did in 12 hours 17 minutes in September this year. She hummed classical musical to herself as motivation and entertainment during her swim and stopped every 30 minutes to the sound of
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When the leading men from the extreme world of ice swimming stand in public in their swimming briefs, they re are impressive for their relative slender builds. None of them can be said to be obese or even relatively overweight. Rather, compared to the average middle-aged man, these hardened souls are defined as extraordinarily fit
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