To educate, entertain, and enthuse those who venture beyond the shore
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the open water world, distances are measured from point to point along the straight line tangent. If the open water swim is held in a rectangular course, the course is measured from buoy to buoy along the straight line tangent. This necessarily means that open water swimmers swim …
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Blue Journey Dangerous Waves Project (USA) by Bruckner Chase The Blue Journey Dangerous Wave Project is an educational effort by Bruckner Chase in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service. It bolsters an impactful, practical film series with a public outreach via clinics and talks …
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. medal. Year Women Men 2016 Sharon van Rouwendaal, NED Ferry Weertman, NED 2015 Jordan Wilimovsky, USA Aurelie Muller, FRA 2014 Sharon van Rouwendaal, NED Andrew Gemmell, USA 2013 Poliana Okimoto, BRA Thomas Lurz, GER 2012 Eva Ristov, HUN Ous Mellouli, TUN 2011 Keri-Anne Payne, GBR Thomas Lurz, GER/Spyros Gianniotis, …
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He will swim across the Ilulissat Icefjord, fed by the world’s fastest moving glacier, in Greenland. The swim is expected to take two weeks starting today. No one has ever attempted a multi-day swim in the Polar Regions.
Authorities don’t know why thousands of jellyfish packed a three-mile long section of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. http://tinyurl.com/dead-jellyfish Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
Courtesy of Wall Street Journal. Courtesy of USC U.S.-China Institute. At a time where swimmers are venturing further and further around the aquatic globe, there is one part of the world where military risks are being elevated.
On Thursday, October 14th, Swim Free™ will distribute swimsuits donated by Dolfin swimwear to NYC children participating in Asphalt Green’s notable Waterproofing Program. Through Waterproofing, over 30,000 New York City public school children have learned how to swim and be safe in the water – free of charge – since 1993. The swimsuits are part …
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ferry Weertman of the Netherlands had no idea that he has just won the gold medal in Copacabana Beach at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Thank you to all of you who purchased a copy of my biography Dangerous When Wet – The Shelley Taylor-Smith Story. Profits from the sales goes to the Esther Foundation – a women’s community leadership program in my hometown of Perth, Western Australia; that I am proudly Patron of (http://www.estherfoundation.org.au) I am now in NYC …