To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bridgette Hobart didn’t take long to gather quite a following on her unprecedented 11-stage 167-mile Nazareth College Finger Lakes Challenge (or The 5 Majors & The 6 Minors Swimming for a Cause). After her first 15-miler across Canandaigua Lake on July 11th, Hobart finished her second swim across Keuka […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Red Bull celebrated the lifestyle, mindset and athleticism of beach lifeguards in its Red Bull Surf and Rescue competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Surf and rescue began with a squad of volunteer watermen in the 1800s who worked the beaches to keep safe the growing number of visitors
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers have a great ability to multi-task as they balance their work, family and sport in what usually amounts to very long days that started out before the sun rises and ends long passed the sun sets. But there is one particular long swim that will be
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Courtesy of Rowdy Gaines at the Race for the Conch Eco-SeaSwim in Turks & Caicos. I waited for her to come around the corner…and waited and waited. After about an hour, I could see this small dot with a boat right next to her swimming down the beautiful shoreline of Turks & Caicos. I realized
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ice swimmers take it literally in South Africa. Six tons of ice will be dumped into the Hertzelia Constantia Swimming Pool in Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa on July 26th in order to reduce water temperature to below 5°C. With those purposefully engineered water temperatures, swimmers can
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. For 7 consecutive years, Steele Whowell has been working hard to raise money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Whowell combines his appreciation and support for the Special Operators with his passion for the open water at the Swim for Freedom event, held this year on August 2nd. The
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Courtesy of Gordon Gridley, Bear Lake, Utah. Fifteen soloists completed the annual 7-mile Bear Lake Monster Swim, across the width of Bear Lake despite some very rough conditions. “75 swimmers to date have successfully completed swimming the width of Bear Lake,” says Gordon Gridley. “Also, Triple Crown swimmer, Joelle Beard completed her fifth crossing to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. To contemporary swimmers, what Harry Huffaker faced in the 1960s when he first crossed the 26-mile (42 km) Molokai Channel was unfathomable. “I used to swim down in Ala Moana, going back and forth time and time again,” recalled Huffaker about the popular, crowded swimming basis near downtown Honolulu
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Simon Dominguez will do the heavy lifting by attempting a 30-mile swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands while Vito Bialla will take the helm of his escort boat and the Night Train Swimmers will provide the crew support. But it will be film makers Jack
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Photo courtesy of Andrew J Martinez / Science Source / Getty. If it looks like seaweed and is grown in salt water, how can it taste like bacon? How can a staple of the Japanese diet taste like a staple of the American diet? Through the ingenuity and creativity of scientists at the Oregon State
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