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Courtesy of Robert Kovacik from the NBC4 News in Seal Beach, California. The Southern California beach that Lynne Cox and Penny Dean help make famous and which the Sea Monkeys and many others currently use for swimming and surfing has now joined places like South Africa and Australia on the Great White Shark watch list. […]
World’s 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yesterday, the Daily News of Open Water Swimming posted the 2015 list of the World’s 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Men. Below is the list of the 2015 World’s 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Women, listed alphabetically by last name. The list
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When open water swimmers see a majestic lake something like Lac Léman (Lake Geneva, Le Léman, Lac de Genève, Genfersee) that borders Switzerland and France, they ponder questions like… * how far [to the other shore]? * how cold [is the water temperature]? * who has swum this before?
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This weekend, Nejib Belhedi began his second attempt to replicate his unprecedented 20 km swim across the Kerkennah – Sfax Channel in 1991. In order to attract attention to the long-range prediction that Kerkennah may submerge under rising seas, Belhedi made his second attempt on the Oued Ellouza tide.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Very few swimmers head home when they swim across the Strait of Gibraltar. Among those few channel swimmers since 1928, only one solo swimmer was a woman. Nadia El Bahtane became the first Moroccan woman to complete a solo crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar yesterday. The Rabat native
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Men’s Journal published its list of 50 Most Adventurous Men. Without a doubt, these 50 men are daring, courageous, and audacious whose lifestyles are unique and mindsets are rare. The list includes adventurers who focus on mountains like climbers (Alex Honnold, Mike Libecki, Erik Weihenmeyer, Ueli Steck, Tommy Caldwell,
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Farallon Islands Relay – Teaser from BLACK FLAG on Vimeo.Courtesy of Vito Bialla of the Night Train Swimmers‘ 14 hour 10 minute relay out to the Farallon Islands
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Photo of Lewis Pugh, courtesy by Ben Brown. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lewis Pugh will come to San Francisco next week to give speeches and meet a number of individuals. The United Nations Patron of the Oceans has been trying to get the Ross Sea set aside as a Marine Protected Area.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. National governing bodies around the world are making their public announcements of their teams for the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia from British Swimming to Russia Swimming. But names of the open water swimmers are noticeably missing from the team rosters in a vast majority of press
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With all kinds, types and speeds, many open water swimmers will be gathering this weekend in the Rio Negro, the largest left tributary of the Amazon River and the largest blackwater river in the world for a trio of open water swims. The Rio Negro is one of the
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