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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jacqui Hargrave is a British open water swimmer from Yorkshire who aiming to complete a swim across Windermere in the Lake District of UK. This is her story about her journey…read Open Water Woman here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swim Around Lido Key 2017 in Sarasota, Florida kicks off the 2017 United States Masters Swimming national open water swimming championship season. Race founder and director David Miner explains the sold-out race in its third year, “The race is a U.S. Masters Swimming National Championship race with 140 solo
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Courtesy of Ranie Pearce, Molokai Channel, California. Ranie Pearce describes her shark encounter with an 8-foot and 10-foot tiger shark during her Molokai Channel attempt on July 2nd 2016. “I had always heard the advice, ‘Don’t panic’ and ‘Punch them in the nose’ when a shark encounters a shark. I knew that the two sharks
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adrian Sarchet is an Advocate from Guernsey is a busy man on dryland and in the open water. Over the last several years, the 41-year-old has completed crossings of the English Channel (2012), Catalina Channel (2013), Strait of Gibraltar (2014), North Channel (2015), and Molokai Channel (2016). He described
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tuomas Kaario, an osteopath and sport massage therapist on dryland and a Finnish open water swimmer completed a crossing of the English Channel in 2008 and swam 58 km across the Gulf of Finland from Tallinn in Estonia to Porkkala in Finland in 2014. He described his workout and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Gary Emich, an open water swimming stalwart and icon in San Francisco Bay, talked about the issue of potential shark encounters over his long career of swimming, organizing and leading all kinds of swims around the world. “With the exception of Great White Sharks, tiger sharks, and bull sharks,
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Courtesy of Daniel Hildebrandt with Adrian Sarchet in the Molokai Channel. Adrian Sarchet, an Advocate and a member of the Guernsey Swimming Club, talked about the issue of potential shark encounters after crossing the Molokai Channel in Hawaii on July 10th 2016. “I spent 17 hours 25 minutes thinking about if I would be ready
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “We hear the same advice every time the issue of sharks encountering or biting ocean swimmers comes up,” observes Steven Munatones. “Don’t panic. Fight back. Punch them in the nose. But how in the world do you not panic in a shark encounter?” While advice from Chris Lowe, a
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Courtesy of Olympic Channel on Poliana Okimoto of Brazil.
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