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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With his tough crossing of the 19.5 km Tsugaru Channel, Guy Moar of Australia joined some of the top swimmers in the world* who have completed the most Oceans Seven channels. His Tsugaru Channel crossing from Honshu to Hokkaido in northern Japan took him 11 hours 32 minutes of […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The video above of a Lion’s mane jellyfish in Killary, Damien Haberlin shows what swimmers in the North Channel face. The the primary season for channel swimmers and the Lion’s Mane coinciding in late July and August, swimmers face encountering the dreaded jellyfish. Nuala Moore explains its presence among
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matthias Kassner (Matthias Kaßner) of Germany achieved the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming yesterday with his 13 hour 59 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel. In 2013, he had completed the English Channel in 14 hours 43 minutes and in 2014, he completed the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This week’s New Yorker cartoon about ocean swimming in offshore waters of Japan reminds us of Adam Walker‘s crossing of the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan where massive, unpredictable eddies and a battering of conflicting currents make the 19.5 km channel more difficult than usually anticipated
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Photo courtesy of Wolfgang Rattay. There was all kinds of excitement on Ostia at the 2009 FINA World Swimming Championships where hometown hero Valerio Cleri and German standout Angela Maurer won the 25 km marathon swim. While Cleri was comfortable in the rough waters of Ostia, not everyone is water safe in the Roman seaside
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Photo courtesy of NewsChannel 3 from Lake Michigan where Dr. Chris Lechner swam 95 miles (152 km) in a traverse attempt across Lake Michigan. Dr. Chris Lechner explains the details of his adventure on his Facebook page here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Abhejali Bernardova of Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team enjoys pushing herself on land and in the open water. She completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with a 9 hour 46 minute Catalina Channel crossing on August 18th. She is the first Czech Republic swimmer to become a Triple
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At 200 kg (440 lbs.) Kelly Gneiting is perhaps the heaviest marathon swimmer in the world. But that has not stopped the sumo wrestler from expanding his athletic repertoire to the open water. Gneiting completed a crossing of Navajo Lake on July 29th, crossing 22 miles (35.4 km) from
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Walker encountered all kinds of marine life en route to his achievement of the Oceans Seven. Stung from the North Channel and tossed around in the Tsugaru Channel, Walker was impacted profoundly on his journey from the English Channel to the Catalina Channel in California. Along the way,
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