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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 4 km Sea of Galilee Swim in Israel, one of the World’s Top 100 Open Water Swims, is quite an event. While it is not the world’s largest swim with South Africa’s Midmar Mile at over 17,000 swimmers and Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake Swim annually hosting peaking at […]
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Courtesy of Ryan Stramrood, somewhere between Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and mainland China. In 2007, South Africa’s Ryan Stramrood received an unexpected email while sitting in his office in South Africa. “I didn’t have much [open water] experience at all, but it was about a swim attempt from Taiwan to China.” Recipients were invited to
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore from Murmansk. . Henri Kaarma, Christof Wandratsch, Petar Stoychev, Nuala Moore and Ram Barkai [with IISA red jacket on] debriefing after the 1000m International Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, Russia. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ned Denison confirmed the addition of one prison island swim to the Triple Break. The Triple Break or the Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims is a solo challenge where swimmers must complete at least 3 of the world’s most well-known prison island swims: Le Château d’If, Fort Boyard,
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Photo courtesy of Nuala Moore, inside the Arctic Circle in Murmansk. When scientists discovered the first warm-bodied fish [see below], it reminded us of the selected representatives of mankind who are willingly subjecting themselves to unprecedented distances in nearly ice cold water without protection. It is a new world. When fish are found to be
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. An exceptional multi-year drought has haunted California. But today the American Far West got a bit of a drench that brought unexpected rainfall to Southern California. From San Diego to Los Angeles, the record rainfall caused a massive amount of urban runoff to head towards the coast. This led
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S.C.A.R. at Canyon Lake – An Aerial Tour from Luke Pierzina on Vimeo. Courtesy of Kent Nicholas of S.C.A.R., Arizona.
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Photos courtesy of Tzirú Pérez from the Pacific Ocean coast of Costa Rica. Even surrounded by a lush tropical rainforest in a beautiful protected marine sanctuary, the intensity of competition and the focused emotion among open water swimmers are evident. During the 5 km race at the Cruce Aguas Abiertas Golfo Dulce along the Pacific
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Liz Fry keeps getting better and better. Her recent exploits at the 2015 S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge mirrored her successes from the English Channel to around Manhattan Island. She swam 133.8 km in a 4-day stage swim – making another stamp on open water swimming history. In 2011 at the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Many open water swims offer colored swim caps in order to identify swimmers in the water and almost all open water swims write or adhere race numbers on each swimmer in order to help keep track their times and finish positions. POQ Swim offers to combine these functions with
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