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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Find a Way – One Wild and Precious Life is a 304-page book written by Diana Nyad. Published by Random House, the book goes on sale in October 2015. Find a Way was her mantra for her fifth swim in the Florida Strait from Havana, Cuba to Florida in […]
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Courtesy of Herald Tribune. 50-year-old Ricardo Valdivia of the Gulliver Swim Club in Miami handily won the inaugural 7-mile Swim Around Lido Key in Florida in 2 hours 27 minutes. Two minutes back was 16-year-old Fitzhugh Rawls in 2:29.37 while 28-year-old Heather Roka was the first overall female in 2:50.23. Photos by Carla Varisco are
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ron Collins announced the 2015 class of swimmers who will compete in the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim. “12 solo swimmers and three relay teams have entered the 18th Annual 24 Mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim. Swimmers and their fans will be able to follow all of the action on
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Another Epic Relay Attempt – A Two-way Farallon Relay Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are certain swims around the world that are initially considered unfathomable, but then swimmers who dream big eventually achieve them. Linda Kaiser, Randy Brown, Michelle Macy, Joel Swartz, Billy Brown and Mike Spalding took 47 hours 55 minutes to
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Top photos courtesy of Nuala Moore from inside the Polar Circle. Lower photo courtesy of Ella Antibetova. Results courtesy of Dmitry Blokhin of Murmansk, Russia. The International Ice Swimming Association-sanctioned inaugural Ice Swimming World Championship in Lake Semenovskoe in Murmansk, Russia was held on March 20th. The distance was 1000m in water that hovered around
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Courtesy of Jorge Paulo Pereira of 3 Iron Sports and organizer of the Swim Challenge Cascais. Every swim can be a challenge, especially for those swims across channels, around islands, and up rivers. With every challenge in the open water should come a support crew that includes people both on the water and onshore. The
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After being driven from the Molokai Channel last year by a menacing shark, Warren Wild of Albuquerque, New Mexico made his second attempt. Last week, he started at 6 pm and swam through the night, only to get out of the water at 3 am defeated by the howling
Courtesy of Jorge Paulo Pereira of 3 Iron Sports and organizer of the Swim Challenge Cascais. The flat dolphin is a means to safely dolphin in shallow water. The second photo above shows the lead swimmers doing flat dolphin dives. These types of dives are used by competitive open water swimmers and triathletes, especially when
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If you want to be a channel swimmer, you do not always have to head over to England to join the English Channel fraternity. You do not have to attempt the Oceans Seven. There are plenty of channels – many relatively short and all with clear, warm waters with
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Things You Shouldn’t Say To An Open Water Swimmer Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are lots of things that open water swimmers know, both instinctively and learned over time. How best to breathe in turbulent water, what kinds of food are best suited before a race or a swim, how much lanolin to
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