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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Flathead Lake Swim Series consists of a 5 km swim on Friday night, a 10 km Flathead Lake Swim on Saturday morning, a 0.5-mile and a 1-mile swim held on Sunday morning in July at the Big Arm State Park in Montana. Neoprene and bioprene competitors participated in […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Great Moose Migration is a 17.7 km marathon swim from Arrow Rock Dam to Lucky Peak Dam in Idaho (Dam2Dam). The race, founded by Oscar ‘Moosie’ Williamson, is now in its fifth year. Anna Megale and Brigitta Gruenberg went 1-2 in the 11-mile swim with Tommy Schwartz finishing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nick Thomas, a 45-year-old British swimmer from Ellesmere in Shropshire, completed an English Channel crossing in 2014 with a wetsuit as part of the Enduroman Arch to Arc triathlon between London and Paris. Today, he was pulled unconscious from the Channel today less than a mile from his intended
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Courtesy of Cara Giaimo. Learn more about the famed Pig Nose, a 650-pound sturgeon here.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Deirdre Ward of the Serpentine Swimming Club finished a two-way English Channel crossing in 27 hours 52 minutes on August 23rd-24th. John Tierney explained the significance of Ward’s third and fourth career crossing of the Channel. “Deirdre’s swim is the 43rd two-way crossing of the English Channel in history.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There were all kinds of people swimming over 24 hours in the English Channel recently. Stephanie Hopson finished her 24 hour 31 minute crossing on August 14th-15th. Deirdre Ward finished her two-way English Channel crossing in 27 hours 52 minutes on August 23rd-24th. But Mother Nature was most cruel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. American Bob Fernald culminated his three-year journey to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming this week. The 49-year-old from North Hampton, New Hampshire became the latest person to become a Triple Crowner with his crossing of the Catalina Channel. But his journey did not start on the
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