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Jim McConica Reminisces About His Swimming Career On WOWSA Live

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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Ned Denison, chairperson of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, talked with Jim McConica on today’s WOWSA Live. The 69-year-old from Ventura, California has set 117 U.S. Masters Swimming pool records, 30 relay records, 26 long distance records, and six long distance relay records. The Masters International […]

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Why We Swim Up For Best Science & Technology Book Of The Year

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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, San Francisco Bay, California. Time Magazine selected Bonnie Tsui‘s Why We Swim as one of its 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Tsui’s book is now one of the final nominees for the Best Science & Technology Book Of The Year, sponsored by the Goodreads Choice Awards 2000. Tsui discussed her highly

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Mário José Marchi Vissali Pinto Completes Travessia do Leme ao Pontal

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Mário José Marchi Vissali Pinto Completes Travessia do Leme ao Pontal Courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Travessia do Leme ao Pontal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After a long period of interruption due to the pandemic, the Travessia do Leme ao Pontal returned. 55-year-old Mário José Marchi Vissali Pinto had a great birthday swim when he

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Danie Marais, Sasha-Lee Corris Win Greendale Superspar Capital K Open Water Swim

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Danie Marais, Sasha-Lee Corris Win Greendale Superspar Capital K Open Water Swim Courtesy of Mary Martens, Huntington Beach, California. The Midmar Dam in KwaZulu-Natal is site of the world’s largest competitive open water swimming event, the aQuellé Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. It is also site of the annual Greendale Superspar Capital K Open

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Mayank Vaid, Shu Pu Discuss HK360Xtreme Challenge On WOWSA Live

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Mayank Vaid, Shu Pu Discuss HK360Xtreme Challenge On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Mayank Vaid, a Hong Kong-based intellectual property lawyer, and event director and Hong Kong extreme sports visionary Shu Pu talked about Vaid’s unprecedented HK360Xtreme Challenge, the first triple-stage circumnavigation triathlon around Hong Kong Island, on today’s WOWSA Live.

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Deaxo Croes, Davy Bisslik, Romar Arendsz, Wendy Kock-Croes, Stephan Thijsen Swim From Venezuela To Aruba Following In The Wake Of Roly Bisslik

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Deaxo Croes, Davy Bisslik, Romar Arendsz, Wendy Kock-Croes, Stephan Thijsen Swim From Venezuela To Aruba Following In The Wake Of Roly Bisslik Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of Francisco Goedgedrag and Deaxo Croes, Aruba. In 1975 coach Roly Bisslik started a swimming team with a few friends and his family on his

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The Remarkable Life And Career Of Otto Kemmerich By Erik Eggers

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The Remarkable Life And Career Of Otto Kemmerich By Erik Eggers Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Otto Kemmerich, born in 1886, was a visionary and adventurous open water swimmer from Husum/Nordfriesland, Germany who swam many of his marathon swims unescorted. He was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968

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Michael Gregory Talks About Paying It Forward On WOWSA Live

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Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Australian Michael Gregory talks about his marathon swimming career on today’s WOWSA Live. Since 2010, Gregory has swum across Loch Ness, four times across the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, eight times across the Rottnest Channel, and various other swims from 60 km in Port Phillip Bay to

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