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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bryan Avery of Elgin, Scotland became the 125th person in history to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. It was a short time coming as his very first marathon swim was his English Channel crossing in 2013. After completing the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in July 2015 […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Betina Lorscheitter won the latest Queen of the Sea while her Brazilian national teammate Samuel de Bona won the King of the Sea, a 4 km race in Florianópolis on Santa Catarina Island in Brazil. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in the pre-GPS era of Lynne Cox, Penny Dean and John York and Cindy Cleveland, Catalina Channel swimmers were escorted by prone paddlers and the best guesses of their escort pilots. Hank Wise decided to go old-school and surrounded himself by local watermen and water women who escorted
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Courtesy of Patricia Hermann, Tex Robertson’s Highland Lakes Challenge in Austin, Texas. Texas has one of the best kept secrets in open water swimming … organized by swimming royalty – a husband and wife team including Olympic triple gold medalist, Sandy Neilson and the swimming world’s oft-published sports psychologist Dr. Keith Bell. The Highland Lakes
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 51-year-old New Yorker Matt Judge from New Rochelle, 30-year-old Kerby Lewis also from New Rochelle, and 29-year-old Turk Emre Erdogan from Izmir all swam and played water polo at Iona College. The trio decided to attempt a tandem swim together across the Strait of Gibraltar on September 30th. Judge
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Courtesy of Dorothea Sofia Rosselini in Oceanswims.com, Australia. Dorothea Sofia Rosselini in Oceanswims.com penned a compelling set of reasons to start integrating speed-based start waves instead of grouping individuals at open water swimming starts according to their age. The following is her take and recommendations for substituting the traditional age-based starts with speed-based starts: In
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Courtesy of Lou Blouin and Darren Miller who talks about swimming in Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers.
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Courtesy of Hank Wise, Santa Catalina Island, California. 2-time solo Catalina Channel swimmer Hank Wise reflects on tonight’s third channel attempt: “It’s with continued curiosity, authenticity, and deep gratitude that I swim this Catalina Channel crossing. This will be my third swim across this 20-mile stretch, out in front. I leave at approximately midnight [tonight]
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Courtesy of Ocean Appreciation Month, Ocean Recovery Alliance, Hong Kong. Ocean Appreciation Month was held in April and ws organized by Ocean Recovery Alliance. It included the Ocean Art Walk, the 4th annual Hong Kong Ocean in Motion Film Festival, and Kids Ocean Day Hong Kong.
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Courtesy of Ocean in Motion Film Festival that was held in conjunction with Portugal’s Blue Week, the Plasticity Forum and the Economist’s World Ocean Summit on June 4th-5th.
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