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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of チーム野獣 on July 26th 2016. チーム野獣 or Team Yajyu (meaning The Beast) included (in order) 1st Tomonari Ogino (荻野 智成), 2nd Miho Yonezawa (米沢 美穂), 3rd Akiko Niide (新出 亜希子), 4th Takeshi Yamamoto (山本 毅), 5th Yumiko Okuda (奥田 由美子), and 6th Kumiko Koizumi (小泉 久美子). across the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan.
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2015 photo of Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea courtesy of the United States Navy via Reuters. Imagine 750 tropical islands, reefs, islets, atolls, and cays in the South China Sea. With over 600 coral reefs [including Mischief Reef shown on left] that are important habitats for many seabirds
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tom Morgenstern of Revista Open Swim Magazine is on a role, both on dryland and in the open water. He is going big and he is going blue. After launching his Spanish-language open water swimming magazine, he just recently launched a new swimming holiday travel agency called Big Blue
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Wexford Masters Open Sea Swimming Club is on its way to a Relay Oceans Seven. The Irish team of James O’Connor, Enda Sinnott, Peter ‘The Bullet’ Bolger, Saskia Dodebier, Sandra Goldsmith and Denise Underwood has completed a relay crossing of the English Channel in 12 hours 31 minutes
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Courtesy of Alessandro Pilati, Gran Fondo Italia. The 2017 Gran Fondo Italia is an independent open water swimming circuit created in 2016. It offers a number of long distance races from 15 km to 25 km) at several Italian venues. Each race has the lowest possible environmental impact in terms of the means used with
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Photo courtesy of Ned Denison with Martin Cullen on November 18th 2006. My friend and mentor Martin Cullen passed away this week. What a terrible loss. I placed one phone call in 2004 looking to book a place on Martin’s 8-mile sea swim…and it led to twelve great years of marathon swimming and contributing to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. ‘Twas the days before Christmas and all along the coast, The swimmers were gathering to give it their most; The seashore was calm, looking all tranquil and bare, Awaiting the paddlers who would soon be there; Before sunrise, swimmers are inspired with dreams in their heads, Pushing themselves in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John Van Wisse may have the longest winning streak in open water swimming history. For 18 consecutive years, the English Channel swimmer and 3-time Manhattan Island Marathon Swim winner has won the Brighton Baths Health Club Winter Swimming Carnival. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Tom and Jerry Swim with Esther Williams, excerpt from Dangerous When Wet – 1953
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As of December 15th, Bill Welzien swam another 13 circumnaviga- tion solo swims around Key West in 2016, bringing his lifetime total to 86. With the goal of matching Theodore Yach’s Century Swim in South Africa, both Welzien and Kathie Hewko across the Golden Gate Bridge are aiming to
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