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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bruckner Chase will give a speech entitled Unlimited Access: Knowledge, Means and Desire Can Open the Oceans and the Rest of the World at the Accessible World Conference in April in Philadelphia, Pennsylvia. His speech will touch upon the remarkable Ocean Swimming & Prone Paddleboarding program for Athletes with […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Oceans Seven has encouraged many people to challenge themselves in bodies of water from the English Channel, North Channel, and Strait of Gibraltar to the Molokai Channel, Tsugaru Channel, Cook Strait and Catalina Channel. The Ice Sevens Challenge, or simply Ice Sevens, is another massively difficult swimming concept.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bruckner Chase was giving a talk on the marine environment in an elementary school in Pleasantville, New Jersey. “Suddenly, this 12-year-old walked out of my talk and asked the teacher if we could get bamboo utensils to all the 800 students and have them stop using plastic.” That is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Will the men from the Commonwealth – Jarod Poort (Australia), Kane Radford (New Zealand), and Richard Weinberger (Canada) all face each other again at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Copacabana Beach? Time will tell. Of the 53 countries of the Commonwealth, it looks like Australia, Canada, Malaysia, New
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With live webcasts of major competitions, coaches no longer just have to stand on the feeding pontoons and wait to find out where their athletes are in the pack. Now, thanks to service providers like Take It Live Productions, coaches on feeding pontoons and family members onshore can watch
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. San Mateo Athletic Club is hosting a sold-out 3-day U.S. Masters Swimming National Coaching Clinic on November 11th-13th in San Mateo, California. U.S. Master Swimming coaches who will speak include Ron Marcikic on team building, Dr. John Mullen on dryland and technique, Cokie Lepinski on turns, Laura Hamel and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the spring of 2014, Rob and Brittany Webster were overwhelmed by the amount of trash and objects that had washed ashore while walking on one of the beautiful beaches of the Bahamas. “We saw the need for change and wanted to make a difference in any way we
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wallace J. Nichols and Bruckner Chase are going to give the keynote presentations at the World Aquatic Health Conference in Nashville, Tennessee in October. Dr. Nichols will give his keynote presentation on October 20th: A Ground Breaking Conversation Surrounding Blue Mind. Blue Mind is a New York Times bestseller
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doug Woodring and his Global Alert platform were selected by Morgan Stanley out of a number of international non-governmental organizations to support its exposure in New York City’s Times Square. As a result, Morgan Stanley allowed Global Alert to utilize its massive screens on the corner of 47th and
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Courtesy of Katrina Murphy, Mighty Mac Swim, Michigan. Judith Lynne Depew will be turning 50 when she swim the Mighty Mac Swim in Michigan. “This challenge is part of my 50th birthday celebration.” The former high school swimmer from Jackson, Michigan is a member of the BBA, Birmingham-Bloomfield Atlantis Masters group. She joined when her
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