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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nuala Moore from Dingle, Ireland is renowned as an ice swimmer and educational speaker, but one of her areas of expertise and long experience is shark behavior. Trained and certified as a Staff Instructor by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, her love and appreciation of sharks was one […]
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Photo of Kimberley Chambers by Kate Webber for Outside Magazine. It is pretty cool to start a swim in one country and finish in another. The Strait of Gibraltar (Spain and Morocco), the Dead Sea Swim (Jordan and Israel), In Search of Memphre (USA and Canada), Xiamen-Kinman Swim (China and Taiwan), and Pan-American Colibrí Swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mike Rowbottom wrote an interesting article in Inside The Games entitled e-sports at the Olympics. Just Say No.. We have to agree with his opinion that e-sports – or computer games – are not sport in the traditional Olympic sense of the word. They are games that are massively
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Courtesy of David Jones, Bali. Plastic is inescapable, apparently everywhere. Check out how trash is discarded in Bali here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nicolene Steynberg is one of those special people who work hard behind the scenes as a passionate volunteer who helps make open water swims happen. But the big difference between Steynberg and most other dryland crew is that the swims she works on are usually located far, far away
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Courtesy of Farther, Colder, Rougher – adventures in marathon swimming, San Francisco, California. Evan Morrison pondered about one proposed definition of a cold water marathon swim: swimming 10 km unassisted at a maximum water temperature of 10°C (50°F) among his Marathon Swimmers Federation colleagues. The benchmark is a tough one, but one in which probably
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Alejandro Larriera Swims Well Into His 60s Courtesy of El Litoral, Gentileza Prensa Maratón Santa Fe-Coronda, Argentina. Alejandro Larriera is a former professional marathon swimmer who swam the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda course in the opposite direction (i.e., he swam the entire course upstream from Coronda to Santa Fe). The
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Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Times. Sean Doolittle won the 2017 Tampa Bay Frogman Swim, a charity swim in Florida for the Navy SEAL Foundation, in 1 hour 3 minutes. “The current was a little strong,” said 14-year-old from St. Petersburg. “But I kept my focus on the Gold Star families who we came out
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Henry Charteris Hooper was the first person to swim from Robben Island to the South African mainland on Cape Town. His crossing in 1909 took him in 6 hours 55 minutes. But it took another 65 years before a female duplicated Hooper’s famed crossing. Marie van der Merwe, a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ingemar Macarine does more unprecedented channel crossings that any contemporary marathon swimmer in the world. The Filipino attorney is in an ideal location to plan, train for and complete channel swims, among more than 7,000 islands in his native country. This week, he was in Siquijor Island where he
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