Helping The Oceans From America’s Heartland
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Controlling Your Environment Through Communications
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With so many swimmers around the world attempting and completing unprecedented charity and environmental swims from the Southern Ocean to the North Pole and every ocean and nearly every sea between, their need and ability to communicate their missions and goals is similarly unprecedented in human history. Lewis Pugh
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Matthew Moseley, Randy Soler To Swim The Caribbean
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After completing a lake (Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana in 14 hours 55 minutes), river (76.4 km descent of the Colorado River through Canyonlands in Colorado in 13 hours 56 minutes), and a sea swim (38 km from the island of Culebra to Fajardo in Puerto Rico in 12 hours
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Amigos de las Aguas Abiertas In Honduras
Courtesy of Amigos de las Aguas Abiertas, Honduras. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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A Wise Choice For 2016 Waterman Of The Year
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The local community has long known about the aquatic passion and ocean swimming talents of the indomitable Hank Wise since his days as a young age group swimmer. People of every generation throughout Southern California and his hometown of Long Beach had been enthralled by the warm-hearted charisma and
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Bill Welzien Is Down To Lucky 13
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bill Welzien has been steadily chugging towards history’s longest Century Swim. With his most recent 12.5-mile (20.1 km) circumnavigation swim of Key West in Florida, he is 13 swims away from his 100th open water swim in the same venue. On December 29th, Welzien completed #87 in 6 hours
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Who Is The Happiest Swimmer In The Open Water?
Courtesy of Yasunari Hirai, training at sea level in Rio de Janeiro and at high altitude in Spain. From our perspective, it is hard to find an open water swimmer who enjoys training and travel, challenges and competition more than Japan’s two-time Olympian Yasunari Hirai who is always on the go with a huge smile.
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Safety From Harassment In The Open Water Community
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is a perspective that some men – especially men without daughters – cannot fathom. But it is a perspective that nearly all women – especially those who venture alone in city streets, suburban environs or isolated parking lots or during solitary runs, walks, hikes or bikes – know
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Blood In The Water
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When blood and the ocean, that is when most swimmers want to get out of the open water. Fearful of a shark frenzy or at the least a shark encounter of the most unpleasant kind, swimmers know that blood can attract sharks. George Burgess, Director of the International Shark
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