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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States or about ten deaths per day. About one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger. For every […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sherry Brooks compiled the results of the top swimmers at the Southern Pacific Masters Swimming 2016 Open Water Series that includes 5 independent events. Christie Ciraulo of UCLA Masters and Stephen Sponagle of NOVA Masters were the high point winners for the 2016 season. 40-44 Female 1st: Jennifer O’Keefe
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Cork, Ireland. Eilís Burns is a renowned swimming coach in Sandycove, Ireland. Among her many achievements as an athlete, she is an Irish Masters Swim record holder, the coach of Cork Masters, winner of the seven Hogs 5 km open water events, and played six years on the Irish National water
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Courtesy of Lynn Kubasek, Laguna Beach, California. After coordinator Lynn Kubasek participated in the mixed 50-59 year relay As Seen On The Internetz across the Catalina Channel from the mainland to Santa Catalina Island [see below], she had surgery to remove melanoma skin cancer. “Two of my team members had gone through melanoma, so I
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jorge Perdomo organizes an environmental swim on the island of Guanaja that calls attention to the natural resources of his native Honduras. The Internacional Aguas Abiertas Guanaja is in its second year and will be held on March 5th. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Photos courtesy of Sean Vo in Huntington Beach, California. Imagine a young teenager who is comfortable in the ocean. Then the annual Huntington Beach Pier Swim is a great introductory swim. Not only do the athletes swim around the longest concrete pier on the West Coast of America, but they also face large surf, both
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “From one thing, know ten thousand things,” was attributed to Miyamoto Musashi, a renowned undefeated Japanese swordsman (over 60 duels) and rōnin (samurai). He authored The Book of Five Rings, a book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy that is still studied today. Musashi’s pithy statement summarizes what the know-how
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Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro showing Jarrod Poort far in the lead. Olympians Jarrod Poort (20th in Rio de Janeiro) and Chelsea Gubecka (15th in Rio de Janeiro) headline the Australian Open Water Swimming Championships this weekend on Brighton Beach in Adelaide. It will be interesting to see how
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