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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Carl Kawauchi of Honolulu swam the 8.5-mile Pailolo Channel from Maui to Molokai on his fourth career channel in the Hawaiian Islands. Kawauchi has also crossed the Auau Channel (Maui to Lanai), the Kalohi Channel (Molokai to Lanai) and the Alalakeiki Channel (Kahoolawe to Maui). Due to the swells […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. World open water swimming records for certain distances or in particular venues are not kept by FINA or other governing bodies simply because of the dynamic nature of open water venues. Competitions can differ in actual length, water conditions, water temperature, weather conditions, the presence of jellyfish, the position
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The namesake of the Beattie Lake Swim & Breakfast passed away after a long, outstanding swimming orthodontist and open water event organizer. Dr. Jack Beattie followed an age group, high school, collegiate and masters swimming career with a history of lake swimming in central Florida. “The trick to staying
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Courtesy of Michael Teters, Plainfield, New Jersey. Swimming is the only sport at which I was ever decent. It is also the first athletic activity I remember participating in. At about the age of 5, my parents enrolled me in swim lessons at our family beach club in West Long Branch, New Jersey. The gruff,
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Courtesy of Hugh Brasher of Swim Serpentine, London. “It is about stepping into the unknown, doing something that you might not have ever done before,” says Hugh Brasher, event director of Swim Serpentine. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Oceans Seven documentary about Kimberley Chambers courtesy of CNN. What Kimberley Chambers does on her “race” days is not the most impressive feat to us. Rather, what is most impressive is her day-to-day, behind-the-scenes, lonely, relentless dedication that pushes her to wake up early and train in the cold San Francisco Bay water before going
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How natural rubber can replace neoprene in wetsuits, a documentary film courtesy of CNN with Hub Hubbard of Patagonia
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Courtesy of New Zealand Ocean Swim Series, King of The Bays in Auckland. Photo of Nathan Capp courtesy Simon Watts/BW Media. Organisers of the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series corrected information on the male 2015-2016 series winner. New Zealand Ocean Swim Series event organiser Scott Rice explains, “Due to a glitch in our internal system,
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