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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Ben Barham, Lake Geneva Swimming Association, Switzerland. While many thousands of people throughout history have walked, run, jogged, hiked, biked and journeyed for 24 hours straight on land, there has only been a few more than 100 people – ever – who have completed a non-stop swim in an open body of water […]
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Courtesy of Nick Wooler, Monterey Bay, California. Frank Reynolds of Tustin, California left a legacy in business, philanthropy and aquatics that is hard to match. His children and his grandchildren have long been successful on the national level in pool swimming, water polo and open water swimming. Two of his grandchildren Frank Reynolds Jr. and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kimberly Chambers‘ latest swim from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge is the cover story for the September issue of the monthly Open Water Swimming Magazine. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Brian Meharg, Bangor Boat.
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Photos courtesy of Keano Pavlosky, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Hawaii. Duo relay with brothers 32-year-old John Royer and 26-year-old Mark Royer completed their 26-mile (42 km) Channel of Bones in 16 hours 28 minutes. Their story is here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the first Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Beijing’s manmade Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in 2008 and in London’s manmade Serpentine, the races for gold, silver and bronze were fantastically exciting. Mother Nature’s waves, currents, tides and marine life were essentially written out of the equation in the marathon
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the first Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Beijing’s manmade Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park in 2008 and in London’s manmade Serpentine, the races for gold, silver and bronze were fantastically exciting. Mother Nature’s waves, currents, tides and marine life were essentially written out of the equation in the marathon
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Courtesy of Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari) across the Istanbul Strait
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Courtesy of Pádraig Mallon, Camlough Lake, Ireland. With lowered water levels at Camlough Lake in preparation for the repair works and the upgrade of the facilities, it was initially thought that the 2015 Camlough Lake Water Festival would not go ahead. This would be its fifth year of the Water Festival, following the efforts of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Dis-Chem Sun City Open Water Swim in South Africa was started in 1998 by a committee of open water swimmers from Gauteng Masters Swimming. Many of the members of the first organizing committee are still involved today in helping to run the event. The first swim attracted 173
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