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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Safety is always an important issue for open water race directors, safety personnel, crew members, lifeguards, kayakers and pilots during swims, races or crossings. In the marine environment, however unlikely it may seem, anything can happen to anyone at anytime anywhere. Risks can range from shark attacks and severe […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This coming Sunday, Ingemar Patiño Macarine will attempt the first 17 km crossing of the Canigao Channel from Brgy. Tugas, Carlos P. Garcia in the Province of Bohol to Maasin City, Southern Leyte in his native Philippines. “The swim is organized by the Municipality of Ubay, courtesy of Mayor
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Jackie Cobell‘s tattoo on her back commemorates the Bering Strait Swim, an unprecedented 6-day relay swim across the Bering Strait from Cape Dezhnev in Russia, to Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska via Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands. The swim started at 4:24 pm on August 5th and finished at 4:52 pm on August
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Courtesy of Ori Sela of WEST Swimming Technique, Dead Sea between Jordan and Israel. As Lewis Pugh recently demonstrated in the Ross Sea, as Bruckner Chase showed in American Samoa a few years ago, and as Ingemar Patiño Macarine promotes during all his inter-island crossings in his native Philippines, Oded Rahav said in his speech
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Courtesy of USA Swimming, Fort Myers, Florida.
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Restube courtesy of Kickstarter. Watch Restube‘s Kickstarter campaign here. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Video courtesy of Bill Lauritzen from Hinsdale, Illinois. Legendary coach Don Watson, author of The Hinsdale Swimming Program, has touched many lives including a vast number of student-athletes from Hinsdale Central High School in the state of Illinois. Many of his swimmers have been subsequently been inducted into various Halls of Fame. The list is
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Courtesy of Ben Hooper, Swim The Big Blue, Atlantic Ocean. After 3 days and 8 hours, Ben Hooper has swum a total of 37 miles in 28C. Today, he has swum about 6 miles in 5 hours 29 minutes. Follow Swim The Big Blue here. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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