To educate, entertain, and enthuse those who venture beyond the shore
The mantra of open water swimmers has long been Expect The Unexpected. And even the strongest and most experienced swimmers are occasionally overwhelmed by Mother Nature. Veteran channel swimmer and observer Lynn Kubasek was reminded of that fact this week when we ventured out in surf where the faces of the waves reached over 10 […]
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The most recent tagline of the National Weather Service is Think Like A Lifeguard. In collaboration with Bruckner Chase, the National Weather Service in the United States is focuses on coastal safety beyond the peak summer months – and beyond just the rip currents. He reports, “I am really happy to see Wave Safe and
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Courtesy of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and WOWSA. Daily News of Open Water Swimming: How does it feel to be inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame – even as you are still involved in the sport? Mohamed Marouf: Daily News of Open Water Swimming: What was the most satisfying swim
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Dr. Tom Doyle, a renowned jellyfish expert from the University College Cork, who will speak at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland describes the Lion’s Mane Syndrome: “The real painful jellyfish in Irish and United Kingdom waters is the Lion’s Mane. From my experience, the Lion’s Mane is a real serious
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daily News of Open Water Swimming: Of all the projects that you have done in your illustrious career, where does AltaSea stand in terms of a challenge, potential and opportunity? By far te most challenging and exicint opportunity, that can be said for anyone building a 35 acre campus
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sounds good. nice you picked up Niek and my tip on that. I wish them well. they are still within the Belgium federation though a bit rogue – a rumor – don’t know the validity of that. I wonder why our Belgium counterparts in the IMSHoF did not consider them? OK… perhaps because it is
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The 4th Annual Lake Tahoe Sharkfest® Swim is scheduled for Sunday, August 25, 2013 and details and registration (now open!) can be found at sharkfestswim.com. Next year’s event will be moving from Incline Village to the spectacular Sand Harbor State Park, the most stunningly beautiful, boulder-strewn area of Lake Tahoe. Sign-up soon as we imagine
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The background of this issue can be found at the Marathon Swimmers Forum where here. For a detailed analysis of the issue, readers can follow the Blog of The Year produced by Donal Buckley here. With an increasing amount of information available online, more swimmers are becoming more aware of more possibilities and happenings in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Oram, an inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame with hundreds of successful English Channel swims under his belt, gave these words of wisdom* to the Google Channel Swimmers Group: “If you attempt to swim the English Channel, you can
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. LEEDS, UK–At the British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA) Conference last weekend, Melanie Marshall garnered a third-straight Coach of the Year (CotY) honours. Marshall was cited for her work with Adam Peaty. Disability CotY honors went to Glenn Smith, and Youth CotY went to Alan Bircher. A report on the
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