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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the lighting on the open water set just so, we had to drive over to Sunset Beach in Southern California for an sunset swim. The small dark figure on the horizon is a large tanker outside of Long Beach Harbor. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming […]
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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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Wild Swimming Film And Book To Benefit Ponds Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Melanie Reed is hosting a wild swimming short film screening on May 18th at Corbet Place, an urban chic lounge bar with a big screen in the heart of Bricklane. Wild Things Publishing presents a film exploring the ultimate wild swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Day One at the 4-day stage swim, S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, in Arizona was held across Saguaro, a 9.5-mile (15.2 km) course at 1529-feet (466m) elevation. The growing wind gusts gradually made conditions tougher as the race went on. Two young guns – Jacob Miyauchi and Cole Gindhart – led
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Watching a swimmer take stroke after stroke can be a bit boring. Watching a swimmer take stroke after stroke while in place and training in an Endless Pool can be incredibly tedious. But somehow Jamie Patrick and FINIS can make such training into entertainment. Over 1,500 unique visitors watched
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lots of open water swimmers have advice when it comes to jellyfish and stings, but no one in our opinion knows as much about jellyfish as biochemist Dr. Angel Yanagihara of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a faculty member at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. Here
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was a pleasure to hear the discussion between Lewis Pugh and the Night Train Swimmers in San Francisco, California yesterday. Their topic after the annual 5 Coves of Death swim in Aquatic Park: cold water swimming. While the Night Train Swimmers regularly train and swim in 9°C-12°C, Pugh
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine having a job in Hollywood…swimming…in the ocean…and with dolphins… That is what masters swimmer, coach and stuntman Tom Reudy did as a 22-year-old. The former competitive swimmer worked a stunt-double swimmer for Patrick Duffy in the 1970s television series Man from Atlantis. Ready wrote, “I’m amazed how many
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in 2007, young Canadian swimmer Natalie Lambert wanted to become the youngest person to swim across Lake Ontario along the traditional course established by Marilyn Bell in 1954. The 31.6-mile crossing starts in the south at Niagara-on-the-Lake and finishes approximately 51 km away in a northwest direction at
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