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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Griffith University professor Robyn Jorgensen conducted a 3-year study that found young children (under 5 years of age) who learn to swim at a young age achieve a wide range of skills earlier than those who do not. The study was based on data provided by online surveys completed by parents of 7,000 children under […]
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Jarrett Tishmack, an environmental convervationist, firefighter, and field technician for the U.S. Forest Service, came down in altitude from his Fort Collins in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado to the Dutch Caribbean. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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For centuries, there have been numerous formal and informal open water swimming pods from Kyoto to Rome. In seas and rivers, oceans and lochs, these pods rarely fail to have colorful characters amid their ranks. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Among the thousands of Openwaterpedia entries of people, products, places, services, coaches, pilots and events, below is the current list of the 50 most popular online searches in Openwaterpedia. Openwaterpedia is an online reference and research tool for the open water swimming community has entries posted in English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Russian, Portuguese,
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The epicenter of the emerging global open water swimming community – from short ice swims and wild swims to wetsuit-enabled mass participation swims and wetsuit-adverse channel swimming – sits off of the coast of the European continent, but is it called England or Great Britain or the United Kingdom? Does that include Scotland, Wales and
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Photos were taken of the young swimmers from the Mission Viejo Nadadores attired in their natural bioprene who were lining up at the start of the Swim Across America event in Long Beach. And their elders who were outfitted in their neoprene. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Open water can be lumpy, bumpy, tough, rough, wavy, sloppy, choppy, hairy, gnarly, cold, frigid, icy, freezing, chilly, arctic, numbing, polar, glacial, warm, hot, scorching, stifling, sticky, cool, refreshing, glassy, flat, mirror-like, peaceful, tranquil, pure, majestic, rhythmic, ripply, serene, appealing, gorgeous, swimmable, fishy, balmy, calm, pleasant, tropical, black, dark, grey (gray), green, sea green, blue,
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Gerd Von Dincklage-Schulinburg was the first person to swim across the Rottnest Channel between Cottesloe Beach and Rottnest Island off the coast of Western Australia near Perth. He completed his swim in January 1956. Next February, a record number 237 solo swimmers will attempt to duplicate his feat at the 22nd Rottnest Channel Swim, a
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Nicknames are colorful and sometimes based on funny or profound meanings. Some are given at birth and some are given at the height of an athlete’s career (see Abdul Latif Abou Heif, Crocodile of the Nile on left). There are a number of colorful champions, powerful personalities and charismatic characters in the open water swimming
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Older generations often tell younger people of the tremendous trials and tribulations of their youth and how much more difficult it was “back then” compared with contemporary times. Younger people tend to brush off the difficulties that older generations faced, believing that their stories and situations are exaggerated. In the case of the 24 Heures
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