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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the highly popular Tiki Swim in Oceanside, California, the top 3 women in the 2.4-mile swim wore no wetsuits while the top 3 male finishers clad themselves in neoprene. Luane Rowe of FINIS won overall with Amy Dantzler in 3rd and Open Water Swimming Club‘s Lexie Kelly finishing […]
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Romance can be found in many places and in many situations, but many open water swimmers can find no more romantic place than an idyllic spot on a beautiful beach with the person they love. One incredible true story of a romantic proposal was the risk-taking, gutsy proposal by Todd to his fiance. Todd knew
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Theodore Yach of South Africa has released a fascinating book called In My Element – and it has been a runaway success. In My Element describes Yach’s various talks and presentations on open water swimming and is filled with episodes, life experiences and advice. “Swimming in the ocean is my ultimate joy,” he explained to
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What passionately intense open water swimmer has not gazed out from a coastline or shoreline wondering about the water temperature and conditions of an ocean, lake, river, sea or bay? How far is it? How cold is the water? Any currents? Any marine life? are all questions that race through an open water swimmer’s head
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Yuko Matsuzaki, the only Japanese Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, brings her Japanese perspective and unique humor to every open water swim she does. Yuko-san, who currently works at the Rosen Hotels & Resort as a travel professional, explains her first experience in a professional marathon swim at the Maratona
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Doug Woodring has been at the intersection of marine environmentalism and the open water swimming world for many years. There is a natural grassroots fit between the global community interested in resolving the increasingly polluted and over-fished marine ecology and the open water swimming community. Relentlessly and creatively, the native Californian has been in the
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After three straight nights of a jellyfish onslaught, the hardened swimmers from San Francisco had to call it quits along the coastline of California. So we ask, “What other sport is there that can be stopped by small invertebrates?” What other sports or human activities are so negatively impacted by such small creatures? As swimmers
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In poker and open water swimming, individuals learn to deal with uncertainty, with luck, with consequences of decision-making, and with quick analysis of new information (cards, bluffs and raised bets in the case of poker and currents, wind and temperatures in the case of open water swimming). It is said that poker can help individuals
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They were courageous risk-takers, the six swimmers and crew of the intrepid Night Train Swimmers. Despite the building-sized ocean swells, curious sharks that followed the swimmers, wind-whipped turbulence, and constant sub-15 degree C water, the Night Train Swimmers lasted 5 straight days out on the Pacific Ocean in an unyielding aquatic battle against an angry
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As the Night Train Swimmers continue to stroke their way mile after mile along their 230-mile leg between Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara,they have encountered all kinds of marine life along the California coast. But the best is for last. The Santa Barbara Fire Department is tracking two Great White Sharks outside Santa Barbara Harbor
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