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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daily News of Open Water Swimming: How do you feel ready to compete in an open water competition (winter swim, marathon swim, channel crossing, ice swim)? Adam Walker (aka Ocean Walker): I think training is the key. For me, doing 4-5 sessions a week of quality. I benefited the […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over 300 years ago, a Japanese innkeeper saw that the seaweed soup he discarded somehow coagulated overnight. Little could he have imagined that his observation and discovery of agar might be used by society three centuries later to help improve the marine environment. The agar that he discovered is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Eilath will attempt to break one of the longest standing records in the open water swimming world. The 28-year-old Israeli will attempt to break Suzanne Heim-Bowen‘s record of 6 crossings of the Golden Gate Bridge. He will attempt to cross the channel underneath the Golden Gate Bridge 8
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We are quite confident that the record books will be completely rewritten over the next 20-30 years in terms of the healthful longevity of open water swimmers. At this time, 73-year-old Dr. Otto Thaning (South Africa), 70-year-old Cyril Baldock (Australia) and 70-year-old Dr. Roger Allsopp (Great Britain) are the
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Courtesy of Hawaii News Now at the Molokai Channel and Linda Kaiser of Ka’iwi Channel Swimmers Association. Swimming across the 42 km Molokai Channel is hard enough. Doing it at the pace of another swimmer is doubly hard. But nothing gets past channel veterans Elizabeth Fry and Dr Marcy MacDonald.* The duo went stroke-for-stroke and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marc-Antoine Olivier of France started off in first, kept up a blistering pace, and held off a fast-closing field including Oussama Mellouli, Ferry Weertman, and Alex Meyer to win today’s 5 km race USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Fort Myers, Florida. The final results of top
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marc-Antoine Olivier of France has pushed the pace – fast – on today’s 5 km race at the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Fort Myers, Florida. Tunisia’s Oussama Mellouli and America’s Alex Meyer have anchored in at second and third positions, respectively. They can be seen
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Aurélie Muller and Sharon Van Rouwendaal come from different countries (France and the Netherlands), but they train and race together. And their swimming styles appear – at least over the surface of the water – to be remarkably the same [shown above with right hands over the surface of
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