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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Team Rubicon has a tagline: Disasters are our business. Veterans are our passion. Team Rubicon is quickly deploying four rescue swimmers to Greece to conduct lifesaving operations for 15 or 22 days starting on approximately February 12th. Due to the high-risk nature of the deployment, applicants must have completed […]
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Courtesy of Yasunari Hirai, Huntington Beach, California. Swimmers are known for their self-discipline and self-control. Hour after hour, day after day, month after month, year after year, swimming get up early and sometimes do double workouts – with loads of dryland training and early nights and sacrifice with intense discipline 24/7/365. But take them to
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Mankind regularly eats, hunts, kills, harvests, destroys and culls marine life in its various forms around the world. But sometimes, some humans also can be helpful and kind to marine life. The video above is one such example.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are certain combinations which are very tough to do in the same calendar year: *Ironman triathlon + Ice Mile *English Channel crossing + Olympic 10K Marathon Swim *North Channel crossing + Badwater ultra-marathon run *warm-water river stage swim + Ice Mile But the English Channel + Mount Everest
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Foveaux Strait (Māori: Te Ara a Kiwa) separates Stewart Island, New Zealand’s third largest island, from the South Island way down in the Southern Hemisphere. The strait is a rough and often treacherous stretch of water. Between the years 1998 and 2012, there were zero crossings, but a total
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dave Kelsheimer is the coach of Olympian and 10 km world champion Jordan Wilimovsky. Both Wilimovsky and Coach Kelsheimer were honored by FINA at its Soirée des Etoiles in Doha, Qatar last week. Coach Kelsheimer does some innovative work in conditions where and when he can find them. Living
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Courtesy of FINA, Budapest, Hungary. Brazilian Ana Marcela Cunha was named FINA’s 2015 Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year for the third time after winning medals in the 5 km team event (silver), 10 km Olympic qualifier (bronze), and 25 km marathon swim (gold) at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. Copyright
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Courtesy of FINA, Budapest, Hungary. American Jordan Wilimovsky was named FINA’s 2015 Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year for his dominating performance in the 10 km marathon swim at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Francismar Siviero, PPCI Francismar Siviero. The Travessia Mar Grande Salvador is a 12 km marathon swim that has attracted professional and amateur marathon swimmers for 52 years in Brazil. Rita Mônica de Cássia Silva Andrade Veloso became the first disabled swimmers to complete the Mar Grande – Salvador swim in 1997. Mônica Veloso,
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Peak And Pond People Courtesy of Eric Blakeley MBE, Jersey. The Peak and Pond Challenge is a unique solo achievement by a highly exclusive club of adventurers who not only successfully summit the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, but who also swim across the most renowned stretch of water, the English Channel. The
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