To educate, entertain, and enthuse those who venture beyond the shore
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Got it. There are still swimmers or relays who swim in various bodies (e.g., Catalina Channel), but they are not looking for official sanctioning or even observers. Some of them are trying to raise money for local charities and they see the sanctioning fee as cutting into their donation […]
5th Annual Swimmin’Palmaria In Italy Courtesy of Rari Nantes Spezia, Palmaria Island, Italy. This year’s 3 km circumnavigation swim around Palmaria Island in Italy will be held on June 2020. For more information about Swimmin’Palmaria, visit here. Copyright © 2008 – 2019 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Celebrating 10 Years of Swimming the Kingdom 80 Swims – 764.8 Miles As 2018 comes to a close, we are celebrating 10 years of organized, supported, amateur, open water swimming in the legendary lakes of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We started with the 1, 3, and 10-mile distances
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Week 20, courtesy of Great British Swim, Margate, UK. Ross Edgley is closing in on his goal for the Great British Swim after 133 days of stage swimming. At this time, it appears his unprecedented 3,218 km circumnavigation stage swim around Great Britain will be completed safely and as planned – more or less. Red
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Huntington Beach, California. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Matthias Kaßner Around Berlin Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matthias Kaßner completed an unprecedented circumnavigation of the Tsugaru Channel from Honshu to Hokkaido in northern Japan in 9 hours 45 minutes yesterday. It was his fifth Oceans Seven channel in a prolific marathon swimming and ice swimming career. He has the Cook Strait in
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How many open water swimmers have met like-minded swimmers online? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? The concept of an open water swimming community on the late 19th century – men hanging around the L Street Bathhouse in Boston or the Brighton Swimming Club in England – has now dramatically changed in the early
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