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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jaimie Monahan will participate in this weekend’s U.S. Winter Swimming Association‘s National Winter Swimming Championship that will be held in New York City. The 36-year-old winter swimming luminary has a much easier time competing in the 2016 National Winter Swimming Championship in Manhattan than the international events that she […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Eli Ball continues to fly his way around the coastline of Australia over the past two years. He completed a 3 hour 47 minute butterfly swim in the 10 km VladSwim Challenge Swim at Balmoral Beach in Sydney, a 2 hour 4 minute 5 km butterfly at the Melbourne
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ingemar Macarine will attempt another unprecedented swim in his native Philippines, a 14 km swim in the Bohol Sea on Sunday. The 39-year-old plans his 19th open water swim as a crossing from Pamilacan Island to Baclayon proper. The island is surrounded by plenty of marine life including dolphins,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nino Fazio, the Italian stalwart in the Strait of Messina community, and Christof Wandratsch, the German stalwart in the ice swimming community, first met in the Strait of Messina in 1986. “It was my first time ever in the Strait when I met Christof. Then I met him a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2016 First National Kimberley Lake Argyle Swim, a 10 km and 20 km solo, duo and quad relay competition will be held in Western Australia on May 7th. Event manager Glenn Taylor describes the participants, “Registration data reveals female swimmers outnumber the male swimmers in 2016. Ladies make
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sting No More® is now on the market and was studied with other jellyfish sting products. The published article (January 11th 2016) is entitled Experimental Assays to Assess the Efficacy of Vinegar and Other Topical First-Aid Approaches on Cubozoan (Alatina alata) Tentacle Firing and Venom Toxicity. Written by Angel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We have used Swim Power to analyze a large number of open water swimmers and triathletes. Swim Power analyzes swimming performance and is an easy-to-understand and visual way to educate coaches and athletes of all ages and abilities. “Swim Power educates swimmers and their coaches about their mistakes in
Courtesy of a great group of outstanding open water swimmers. Who are these swimmers? Where are there? And why are they together? Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Ice Swimmer from Ireland. Outsider Magazine, Ireland’s leading adventure magazine, is conducting its Outsider Outdoor/Adventure Photo of the Year campaign with the usual bikers, climbers, skiers and adventurers captured in action. This year, there is a swimmer in their midst. Nuala Moore captured Vasilly Mosin racing butterfly at night in 0ºC
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Courtesy of Global Marathon Swimming Awards of the Marathon Swimmers Federation. The Marathon Swimmers Federation announced its 2015 Global Marathon Swimming Awards. Relay of the Year for the most outstanding relay swim of 2015 was given to The Old Men and the Sea of the U.S.A. that included Bill Spore, Dave Radcliff, Graham Johnston, Bob
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