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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Lucky Meisenheimer, Lake Cane, Florida. Gene Augustin holds the 80-84 year age group record for crossing Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida. He is the oldest person to complete 1 km Lucky’s Lake Swim. But he just broke his own record and set the 85-89 age group lake swim record with a time of […]
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Courtesy of Ger Kennedy and Bolot Bochkarev, Yakutsk, Russia. Yakutsk in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about 450 km south of the Arctic Circle, was the site of Irish ice swimmer Ger Kennedy‘s most hardy and risk-taking open water adventure. After his ice mile and other ice swimming endeavors performed on the surface of the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Several nations (e.g., USA, Hungary, Brazil, Tunisia, Japan, China, Switzerland) used KAATSU equipment in the preparation of, and recovery from, their competitions at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games as well as in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The athletes not only included competitive swimmers, open water swimmers, triathletes, and water
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Courtesy of Jamie Patrick of Adventure Swimmer Productions in association with Sea Nymph Films on Sarah Thomas‘ unprecedented 81.8-mile (131.6 km) crossing of Lake Powell along the Arizona-Utah border in the western USA on October 4th-6th 2016 in 56 hours 5 minutes. Jamie Patrick of Adventure Swimmer Productions explains, “I am extremely excited to share
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Newport Beach, California. Bruckner Chase of Ocean City Swim Club in New Jersey explains what to do when you swim out in the ocean and a fog bank rolls in engulfing you with dense fog that effectively limits or eliminates your vision and proximity to the shoreline. Copyright © 2016 by World
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Courtesy of Shelley Taylor-Smith, Lone Star Lake, Kansas. Stanislas Raczynski of Emmanuel College outsprinted Marcelo Figueiredo of Carson-Newman Universities (1:01:06.43 to 1:01:07.28) in Lone Star Lake in Kansas at the inaugural 5 km College Swimming Coaches Association of America National Collegiate Open Water Championships on September 17th. 123 lb. Stanislas Raczynski traveled a long way
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Photo of ourtesy of Rivi – CC BY-SA 3.0, Easter Island, Chile. Catalina Channel swimmer Dr. Peter Attia talked about the Tangata manu and traditional Birdman competition on Easter Island with popular podcaster Tim Ferris. The tangata-manu – or birdman – was the winner of a traditional climb-swim-climb-swim-climb competition on Easter Island. The ritual was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “It was amazing,” said triathlete Mike Pugh about his lesson on the Big Island of Hawaii with Karlyn Pipes, the greatest masters swimmer in history. “If anyone can do this at any cost, it’s worth it. I wasted so much time trying to do what needs to be done
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With summer-like temperatures and no wind with Catalina Channel clearly in the horizon, the Pacific Ocean was calling. So we went down to the shoreline and started to swim parallel to the shoreline. Suddenly, we heard a massive sound, scaring us. It turned out that 6 United States Air Force Thunderbirds, F-16 Fighting Falcons, were
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Courtesy of Alex Gray, Oceana. Last month, the California drift gillnet fishery for swordfish resumed without desperately needed protections for at-risk animals. These drift gillnets are indiscriminate killers of animals like sperm whales – swimming along the coast of California, they get caught in the nets. Unable to wrestle free, they slowly drown. Peak fishing
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