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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Carolynn Box, 5 Gyres Institute, Los Angeles, California. Carolynn Box, Science Programs Director of The 5 Gyres Institute, described her initial meeting with Matt Moseley in the Caribbean Sea. “I met him while he was swimming the 50 miles between the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in shark-infested waters—cage free. Who does that? […]
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Photos courtesy of Cameron Bellamy, Cook Strait, New Zealand. South African Cameron Bellamy and American Steve Walker, two principals of Cobaltix in Silicon Valley, work hard and train even harder. Today, they completed their sixth Oceans Seven channel in yet another one of their tandem swims around the world. Bellamy completed his crossing in 12
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open Water Woman Swims Windermere is the story of Jacqui Hargrave who faced the challenge of swimming the length of England’s largest lake seven months after surgery. Amazon describes her book as her journey from surgery to swimming and everything in between: the highs, the lows, the physical and
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Courtesy of Fazlul Kabir Sina, Bangla Channel, Bangladesh. The 16.1 km course across the Bangla Channel will be site of the 13th Fortune Bangla Channel Swimming 2018 in March. Following in the wake of the inaugural swim in 2006 by Lipton Sarker, Fazlul Kabir Sina and Salman Saeed, 33 swimmers – some as young as
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Courtesy of Kimberly Moore, Marketing Director Tahoe Restaurant Collection, Lake Tahoe, California. A high-altitude swimming tradition in the cold continued on its third decade. Gar Woods Grill & Pier hosted the 30th Annual Coolest and Largest Shrinkage Event, the high-altitude swim known as the Gar Woods Polar Bear Swim on March 3rd following the Tahoe
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Leticia Flores Hernandez is a veteran Mexican swimmer who combines family travel with her open water swimming schedule. Beginning in 2010, Flores with her husband Arndt and two children traveled from their home in Mexico City to swims around Manhattan Island and in Wisconsin and Sweden. That does not
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Amanda Caldwell of Rice University was awarded the Jean Freeman Scholarship by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA). The assistant coach finished her sixth season at Rice and has helped the Owls to three Conference USA titles and one CSCAA National Invitational Championship. The Owls
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