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Courtesy of Brenton Williams, Eastern Cape, South Africa. November is the traditional start of the summer open water swimming in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The first event will take place on November 15th at Marina Martinique. The distances that can be swum, either in neoprene or bioprene, are 500m, 1 km, 3 km, […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sometimes a great athlete makes a sustained break like Jordan Wilimovsky at the 2015 FINA World Championships or a strategic surge like Oussama Mellouli at the 2012 Olympic 10K marathon swim and are able to pull away from the lead pack. In these cases, the superior athlete with speed
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The most famous resident of San Nicolas Island was Juana Maria, a native American from the Nicoleños tribe. Scott O’Dell’s 1960 novel Island of the Blue Dolphins described her real-life story when she was left behind on the island when the rest of the Nicoleños were forcibly moved to
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Courtesy of Steve Haumschild, out in the Molokai Channel, Hawaii. Swiss marathon swimmer Romano Mombelli was hit head to toe with Portuguese man of war during his Molokai Channel crossing that started last night. “He was in some intense pain,” described Steve Haumschild about the student from the University of Geneva in Switzerland who is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Deep Enders are getting closer to their goal of becoming the first group of humans to swim from San Nicholas Island to Point Vicente on the California mainland. After more 32 hours on the high seas, their unprecedented attempt at swimming 70.1 miles (112.8 km) to the California
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Courtesy of Madeira Island International Swim Marathonn, Madeira Island, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of Tenerife, Canary Islands.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Chattanooga Open Water Swimmers (C.O.W.S) and Dr. Karah Nazor successfully hosted their 6th Annual Swim the Suck, a 10-mile open water swim through the Tennessee River Gorge on October 10th. Olympian Alex Meyer easily won the race by over 15 minutes while the women’s race was an excellent
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ocean swimmers Bill Goding and Michael Miller were both inducted into the Hawaii Swimming Hall of Fame this weekend. The famed swimmers both found their way from the American Midwest (Michigan in the case of Goding and Ohio in the case of Miller) to the state of Hawaii as
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Courtesy of Deep Water Babes, Hong Kong. The Deep Water Babes are a group of women including Jennie Chao, Clarissa Becker, Melissa Davis, Lisette Shoutten and Shu Puwho completed a 15 km relay at the 2015 Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim in Hong Kong in 6 hours 10 minutes. Copyright © 2015 by World Open
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