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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The inaugural Morocco Swim Trek is organized by Molina Edith. It is a 4-stage sea swim held in Morocco on December 1st – 6th. The stage swim‘s total distance is 25 km spread over 4 days where the participants will swim different distances in different stretches of water from […]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Southern California ocean lifeguards watch over 129 million beach-goers every year stretched along the coast in the Los Angeles area. Huntington Beach is the most crowded and popular beach in the SoCal region with over 12,600,000 annual visitors to its 8-mile beach. 45% of these visitors enter the Pacific
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I had the Guinness Book to show me what was possible,” recalls butterflyer Vicki Keith. “I moved forward with the assumption that if they could do it, so could I.” They were trailblazing butterflyers and twin brothers Jonathon di Donato and James di Donato. “I’m only a beginner on
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Courtesy of Alton Motobu, Oahu, Hawaii. While the Hawaiian islands is home to the NFL Pro Bowl, PGA tour events, Honolulu Marathon, Xterra World Championships and the Ironman World Championships, no swimming event is bigger than the Waikiki Roughwater Swim in Hawaii. Annually held in September, the Waikiki Roughwater Swim attracts new swimmers and veteran
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Vito Bialla will escort the first British relay attempt from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, 30 miles (48.2 km) away. John Gunn, Mary Stokes, Ali Wilde, Ed Morgan and Simon Clarke are part of the 5-member Great British Farallon Swim. The quartet will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. For open water swimmers who have been around long enough and for those who have attempted dozens of swims, there are usually some swims that were just a little beyond what was possible. Michael Read MBE has had a very successful career – one of the longest and most
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Data courtesy of the Marathon Swimmers Forum along the California coast. This early Friday morning 5.5 miles from the Farallon Islands, Captain Vito Bialla pulled the plug on the 5-member Great British Farallon Swim team. Four hours 40 minutes after they started on the Farallon Islands in sub-10°C water, their dreams were over. When Captain
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Uaimh an tSolais & Uaimh na nÉan film by Sam Krohn with Donal Buckley on the Copper Coast in Ireland. Men’s Journal published its 15 Best Beaches in the World issue. Not surprisingly, the beaches almost exclusively consisted of warm, tropical beaches with coral reefs, light-blue or light-green waters. The beaches – located from Hawaii
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The comparison against men and women in the open water is always an interesting exercise, especially since women are on average historically faster than men in the English Channel. The top 3 men in the world in the 50m freestyle in the pool are 11.7% faster than the top
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Up until 1984, a crossing of lac St-Jean in Canada was considered a tremendous feat. Since 1955, the 32 km Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean had challenged professional marathon swimmers from around the world to a tough 32 km, wind-whipped race across the cold-water lake in Quebec. However, in
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