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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Class of 2011 when Michael Read was inducted as an Honor Open Water Swimmer. Read about Read and his fellow honorees of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2011 here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Class of 2010 when Paul Asmuth was inducted as an Honor Open Water Swimmer. Read about Asmuth and his fellow honorees of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2010 here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Photo courtesy of Kashfi Halford, Global Ocean Commission and Ocean Recovery Alliance with Doug Woodring. José María Figueres, Co-chair of the Global Ocean Commission and former President of Costa Rica, wore both a dress suit and sunglasses made from plastic waste. In order to help bring awareness to the harmful effects of plastics on ocean
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kathie Hewko has been swimming across and underneath the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay for the last 39 consecutive years. From 1976 to 2014, she has completed 91 crossings, the longevity record for the most crossings of the Golden Gate Bridge. She accomplished her 50th Golden Gate
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Class of 2008 when Shelley Taylor-Smith was inducted as an Honor Open Water Swimmer. Read about Taylor-Smith and her fellow honorees of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2008 here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Class of 2006 when Alison Streeter was inducted as an Honor Open Water Swimmer. Read about Streeter and her fellow honorees of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2006 here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Temur Dadiani and Aleko Gitolendia are double-amputee soldiers from Georgia who were wounded while serving at the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan. After stepping on an improvised explosive device during their service, they both lost their right and left legs and were gravely injured throughout their entire
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Attila Mányoki‘s 10 hour 59 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel was the epitome of bumpy and lumpy. From his time across the churned up Catalina Channel to his final resting spot on the California mainland, Mányoki hit everything bumpy and lumpy that the Southern California channel has to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 9th annual Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim will be held this coming weekend in Hong Kong Stanley to Deepwater Bay. 15 solo swimmers will join 50 relay teams and 7 Yak Swimmers. Race director Doug Woodring explains, “The Yak Swimmers are participants in a new 2-person duo relay
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming ran an article about José María Figueres, Co-chair of the Global Ocean Commission and former President of Costa Rica, who wore both a suit and sunglasses made from plastic waste (see here). The question was asked, “If Waste2Wear can make men’s suits,
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