To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Alta Sea, Port of Los Angeles, California. AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles accelerates scientific collaboration, facilitates job creation and inspires the next generation for a more sustainable ocean. On January 27th between 10 am – 12 noon relatively near the finish point of Catalina Channel crossings, an open house at Alta […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach. With over an estimated 500,000 islands located around the world, there are plenty of opportunities for open water swimmers to attempt and complete an unprecedented circumnavigation swim in their lifetimes. Called the Pearl of the Persian Gulf, Kish is a relatively flat island is located in the Persian Gulf, 19
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Courtesy of Janeanne Gilchrist, Perth, Scotland. Janeanne Gilchrist has spent decades in the ocean as a freediver and photographer. She took her skills and created a collection of art from plastics floating in the ocean. An exhibition of Gilchrist’s work called Above, Below, Beyond is shown until March 24th at the JD Ferguson Gallery in
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Courtesy of FINIS, Livermore, California.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jonathan Ezer (1976), Penny Palfrey (twice in 2010) and Chris Shoup (2017) attempted to cross the 115.8 km Kaieiewaho Channel, a stretch of notoriously turbulent water between the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whether it was currents, waves or box
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Hollywood and movie makers around the world often adapt both well-known and relatively unknown books into films. Dr. Wallace J Nichols is doing the same with his popular book, Blue Mind. He is taking the book Blue Mind and transforming it into Blue Mind The Movie. Dr. Nichols’ book-into-film
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Courtesy of Australian Life Saving. Australia’s first volunteer Surf Life Saving clubs began in 1907 in Sydney. Between 1902 and 1905 the laws that prevented swimming in daylight hours since the 1830s were gradually removed in a societal transformation that reflected changing public attitudes. These changes had a dramatic impact: the number of beachgoers, ocean
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Courtesy of Thomas Beug. Stephen Redmond, an Irish swimmer and first person to achieve the Oceans Seven, tries to make sense of his life one stroke at a time in the isolation of the cold Atlantic Ocean in The Swimmer [see trailer above]. For other open water swimming venues in films over the past several
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