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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. David Burke is an open water swimmer from Ireland and member of the Camlough Lake Water Festival and Newry Triathlon Club. Burke faced trauma early in life at the age of 7 when he had his leg leg amputated as a result of a car accident in 1972. He […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine going over to your home office, designing your own swimsuit, and then printing it out on your desktop 3D printer. Electroloom, the world’s first 3D fabric printer, can make it happen in the future. With Electroloom’s new 3D printing technology, just recently funded on Kickstarter, swimmers may be
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming was initially established to help share information about the open water swimming community in the build-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. The first articles appeared on January 20th 2008 and focused on a variety of topics competitive open water
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Curtesy of WOWSA from Huntington Beach, California. It is a fact that swimmers are often the first responder in open water swims when there is a distressed swimmer on the course. Although safety personnel, lifeguards, officials, and volunteers create a safety net on the course as they keep eyes on the swimmers, there are occasionally
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Courtesy of Ori Sela from Israel. Ori Sela’s detailed recipe for marathon swimmers is here: 1. Cut 6 units of fruits that you like: banana, pear, papaya, peach or anything else to little pieces. 2. Boil water in a pot, add the fruit to the boiling water and let it cook until they’re soft. 3.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Since its inception, the Traversée internationale du lac Memphrémagog has traditionally been a swim across the lake from its American shores in the south to its Canadian shores in Magog, Quebec. For decades since the early 1990s, the 34 km Traversée has always been a FINA-sanctioned event. But times
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The concept of the Triple Break in the open water swimming world was first proposed by Ned Denison. Gradually, Denison and Jacquet Tuset have added to the original list of prison island swims. The list has now grown to sites throughout Africa, Europe, the Americas and Oceania. The Triple
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Brian Long is starting a trend of new coastal ocean races in Southern California with a hipster twist. His new Trident Swim Series is a 3-part ocean swimming summer series. The series kicks off in Oceanside with the Spring Classic 3K Ocean Swim on June 6th. The Series then
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matthew Moseley is still reeling from his latest swim, the Cruce y Nado poor los Arrecifes de Coral in the east region of Puerto Rico, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. “Did that really just happen?” he asked about his 38 km 12 hour 1 minute crossing from Isla Culebra to
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