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Courtesy of Jorge Paulo Pereira of 3 Iron Sports and organizer of the Swim Challenge Cascais. When you sit back in the pack with others ahead of you, it is much easier to determine the optimal course to take. You can decide if you want to be an outlier and stay far right or far […]
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Courtesy of Jorge Paulo Pereira of 3 Iron Sports and organizer of the Swim Challenge Cascais. These open water swimmers at the Swim Challenge Cascais in Portugal look like professional models with their bright, genuine smiles. The inner glow and happiness of open water swimmers are always hard to avoid down by the shoreline. Copyright
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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. El Cruce is one of the world’s most beautiful and unique marathon swims. Held in the tropically warm and clear waters off Cancún in Mexico, El Cruce was originally started in 1980 with 30 swimmers competing on a 3 km out-and-back course off the Isla Mujeres. But the 1990s
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. No sooner than swimmers complete an open water swim, then they are either asked – or question themselves – on what is the next swim on their agenda. “What’s next? What are your future plans? What are you thinking of doing as a follow-up?“ These are the common questions
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Courtesy of William Trubridge‘s Seaborne Plastic Challenge during Ocean Appreciation Month. William Trubridge is an ocean ambassador for the Ocean Recovery Alliance and a world record holder free diver who is asking for help in his latest environmental campaign. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kate Rew is always coming up with something new and innovative. She and her crew at the Outdoor Swimming Society have developed the Outdoor Swimming Society Adventure Series, a series of free wild swims for a limited number of swimmers in the United Kingdom. The OSS Adventure Swim has
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Moloka’i Channel, also known as the Ka’iwi Channel, is 26 miles (42 km) of currents, winds, waves, and marine life. One of the Oceans Seven channels, it is a difficult challenge only achieved 36 times in history (see below). There has been no one else who has crossed
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Sharkfest Swims adds to its series: Besides Alcatraz, Boston, Chicago, Golden Gate, Lady Liberty, Lake Tahoe, Newport (Rhode Island), Oxford-Bellevnue, San Diego, and Zihuatanejo (Mexico), there are the new Sharkfest swims in Indianapolis and Mystic Harbor. While the Mystic Harbor race will be held in Stonington, Connecticut in
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