To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Mark Baker, an active triathlete and father of 3 swimmers from Honolulu who spearheaded the first Aulea Swim Club Au’au Channel crossing between Lanai and Maui. This weekend, he met 9 swimmers and a kayaker at the base of Diamond Head volcano on Oahu for a training swim. With the surf moderately sized, everyone was […]
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Back in 1978, Cindy Cleveland became the first person to cross the Anacapa Channel, 12.4 miles (10.8 nm) from Anacapa Island to Silver Strand Beach in Oxnard on the California mainland. 36 successful swimmers later, not one relay had given this cold-water, rough, marine-strewn channel a shot. All solos, no group swims. Until October 14th
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Dr. Sultanul Aziz, an accomplished scientist, a phycologist and microbiologist who has traveled the world in his research, is also an experienced open water swimmer and FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee member who served as an official at the 2012 London Olympic Games marathon swim. In his native Bangladesh, Dr. Aziz describes the beauty
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Water Margin – Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea is a book that is focused on raising awareness and appreciation of the beautiful waters that surround Hong Kong and make Hong Kong what it is. The book was published by Ocean Recovery Alliance and Flynn Consulting, and features exquisite photography and engaging stories about Hong
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Wayne Soutter is a South African open water swimmer who lives in London and completed the English Channel in 2010. He also became the first person to cross the North Channel 17 km (10.5 miles) from the Mull of Kintyre on extreme west coast of Scotland to the north Antrim coast in northern Ireland. He
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Annaleise Carr is nominated for the WOWSA Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year, despite only being 14 years old. Her nomination for the World Open Water Swimming Award reads, Swimming for others takes on a whole new meaning when the swimmer is only 14 years old and the conditions are borderline wild. Annaleise Carr
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“She started in darkness and she finished in darkness,” described Forrest Nelson of Tina Neill‘s unprecedented 52-mile (83.6 km) solo swim from San Clemente Island to the California mainland. “Rarely will you find a person so energized to be in the water.” Without a doubt, Neill channeled her abundance of mental and physical energy to
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Lexie Kelly interviewed Mel Tantrum, coach of one of the hottest swimmers on the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit, Australian Rhys Mainstone. He ended up eighth overall in the season’s rankings, but he finished fourth and first in the last few races in Hong Kong and China. Coach Tantrum described his flourish, “Rhys had
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The Bangladesh Swimming Federation and the Bangladesh Life Saving Society announced the results of the 15 km Saint Martin Island Long Distance Channel Swimming event. It was a spectacular start on the longest unbroken sandy beach in the world. The eastern side of the course was near Myanmar (Burma) with gorgeous views of the mountains
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The topic of plasticity of the ocean has been gaining steam among the general public and media. With gigantic gyres of tiny discarded plastic (refuse from the world’s societies) growing constantly and creating layers of plastic over large parts of the ocean, this issue is a pending disaster. But necessity can be the mother of
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