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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is an impressive thing to swim for long periods of time. It is an especially noteworthy feat that few people who weigh 200 kg (440 lbs.) are capable of. It is something entirely different to support that same weight climbing up a mountain. But if there is anyone […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Redmond heard the call of the whales during his Molokai Channel crossing in Hawaii. Adam Walker literally experienced self-preservation when he was surrounded by dolphins in the Cook Strait. And innumerable ocean swimmers have personally felt the joy and awe of swimming with whales and dolphins on their
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Photo courtesy of Team USA. Haley Anderson‘s current arena is the open water, but her roots were competitive swimming. The former NCAA champion was recently nominated by USA Swimming for two awards for its annual Golden Goggles Awards. She is nominated along with the pool swimming heroines of USA Swimming: Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Benoit Lecomte is undergoing his final preparation in Vancouver, Canada for The Longest Swim, his stage swim from Tokyo, Japan to San Francisco, California. The swim is scheduled to start in December with a support crew of six: a captain, an engineer, a deckhand and three people doing scientific
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Instead of swimming from Molokai to Oahu, Dr. Harry Huffaker visited a swimming buddy, Audy Kimura. Kimura recalls, “Conditions were just too dangerous even for an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame member and collegiate All-American at Michigan.” Huffaker remembered the night that his Molokai Channel swim was called
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. USA Swimming announced the nominees for its Golden Goggles Awards. The nominees included the usual heroes and heroines of USA Swimming: Katie Ledecky, Missy Franklin, Michael Phelps, and Ryan Lochte who are nominated for the Golden Goggle Male and Female Athlete of the Year awards. But the Big Four
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Photo outside the Bangor Lifeboat Station is courtesy of Brian Meharg.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Discretion is the better part of valor, especially in the ocean when the winds pick up. Anthony McCarley knows this all too well as he is on an airplane heading home instead of getting on his escort boat for a 6-hour ride out to the uninhabited San Nicolas Island
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Photos courtesy of Patricia Sener, Executive Director of CIBBOWS. The BB-CI-BB (Brooklyn Bridge-Coney Island-Brooklyn Bridge) Swim is a two-way 24-mile (38.6 km) crossing of the Brooklyn Marathon Swim. The Brooklyn Marathon Swim is a 12-mile (19.3 km) marathon swim between Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island in New York. It is a historical course whose roots
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