To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Robert Palmese completed a solo crossing of the Catalina Channel in 12 hours 21 minutes 2015. At the annual banquet among his Catalina Channel peers, he announced his attempt at an unprecedented three-way crossing on August 11th 2016. A student at San Diego Mesa College, he has his coaches […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is nearly impossible to accurately predict the medalists in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games…but some athletes are ideally prepared to swim the race of their lives and capture a medal. One of those athletes is the senior veteran of the Greek Swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The first Daily Mail race across the English Channel was held in 1950. Limited to 20 participants and sponsored by the London Daily Mail, Hassan Abdel Rehim, a 41-year-old Egyptian, won the race in a then-record time of 10 hours 50 minutes over the international field. The results were
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dana Vollmer aims to make her third Olympic team at the upcoming U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha, Nebraska this coming week. She discusses her lifestyle, training regimen and preparations in a press conference above. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the University of California Berkeley swimmer won a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Charlotte Samuels, the youngest person to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, released her first book of poetry entitled Earth & String. Like her role model Lynne Cox, Samuels combines writing with her ocean swimming career. “I love writing because I love language. I love the endless
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The best practices of the best ocean swimming coaches are difficult for newcomers to understand, but easy for an experienced veteran to appreciate. We asked lifeguard and waterman Bruckner Chase of the Ocean City Swim Club how he designs his practices and safety net during his open ocean workouts
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The new website of Lynne Cox is here at www.lynnecox.com
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jim ‘The Shark’ Dreyer will attempt an unprecedented triple crossing of the Catalina Channel in 2017. But it will not be a typical or traditional attempt. He is going to swim a bit further than the normal course, between Santa Catalina Island and the California mainland. He is going
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