<i>Courtesy of <a href=”http://www.wowsa.org”target=”_blank”>WOWSA</a>, <a href=”http://openwaterswimming.wiki/index.php?title=Huntington_Beach”target=”_blank”>Huntington Beach</a>, California</i>. <br><br/> The <a href=”http://www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimm.wpengine.com/2009/12/worlds-largest-open-water-swimming.html”>world’s largest open water mass participation swim</a> is held in Taiwan – the 3.3 km <a href=”http://www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimm.wpengine.com/2009/12/worlds-largest-open-water-swimming.html”>Sun Moon Lake International Swim Carnival</a> – but Taiwan is also home to other large <a href=”http://www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimm.wpengine.com/2009/12/open-water-swimming-dictionary.html”>mass participation swims</a> where communal enjoyment in tropical waters and post-swim fraternization […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. n August 20th 1984, John York (8 hours 54 minutes 1 second), Rick Heltzel (9 hours 4 minutes 12 seconds), Mohamed Ibrahim Elwakeel (9 hours 23 minutes 6 seconds), Carol Lee Heltzel (9 hours 28 minutes 28 seconds), Alison Streeter (9 hours 33 minutes 0 seconds), Lamiaa Zahy (9

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There is no holiday when you are a hard-core open water swimmer. You might be on vacation, but you will find yourself always looking at bodies of water and thinking, “I wonder what the water temp is? I wonder if anyone has swum there before? I wonder how long

I will get to this tomorrow……completely ridiculous to do this! The girls we swam at at SMU in college caked it on. I will try to find a pic of one of them 😉 Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source

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Courtesy of WOWSA, North Minch, Scotland. Colleen Blair first person to swim the 24 nautical miles across the North Minch from Isle of Lewis to the Scottish mainland when the water temperature was 9 – 13.8°C. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dear Mr. Marculescu, after the first year with the new OWS world series formula, with reference to the meeting will be held in Cancun the next 19 October I would like to introduce some remarks and suggestions: 1) The 2 news series obtained different results: – the 10 km

Parsons Doubled Up On Open Water Swimming INFORMATION IN RED FROM ROGER, IN BLUE FROM VAL, BLACK FROM NED….. Val a retired marathon swimmier, Both Honor Administrators in IMSHOF and jointly received the Davids Wheeler Award in 2004 from the International Swimming Hall of Fame for contributions to the administration of the sport. In particular

Courtesy of WOWSA, Honeymoon Island, Florida. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association