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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cascais Swim Challenge – Swim for the Ocean becomes the latest race on the 2015-2016 World Open Water Swimming Series (WOWSS). “The Cascais race in Portugal is a high-quality event,” says Doug Woodring. “Its logistics and organizational capabilities, its focus on environmental concerns, and the overall beauty of the […]
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Courtesy of Irina Andreeva and Dmitry Blokhin of Murmansk, Russia. From sprints to mid-distance events, the ice swimmers were impressive in the frozen confines at the inaugural Ice Swimming World Championships in the 0.8°C (33.4°F) water of Semenovskoe Lake in Murmansk. For more videos of the races in Murmansk, visit here. Copyright © 2015 by
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Courtesy of Irina Andreeva and Dmitry Blokhin of Murmansk, Russia. When is swimming in a pool an open water swimming event? When the pool is built within the frozen confines of a lake. When the water is neither chemically filtered or warmed. When the bottom of the venue is naturally made and surrounded by heaps
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photos courtesy of Dan Kutler. The fastest growing demographic in the open water swimming world is women over the age of 50. These Boomer Women have certainly and increasingly found their niche in ice swimming, marathon swimming, channel swimming, ocean swimming and just plain swimming offshore in lakes, rivers,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jessica Wiseman is a lifelong swimmer from Murray, Utah and an aquapreneur who created a mermaid-like mono fins – durable and comfortable swim fins for all ages. Her desire to invent and create things is apparently genetic. “My father and grandfather are inventors. My grandfather, Lyle J. Martinsen started
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Courtesy of CBS News. “I lured [the fish] from their hiding place with a shirt on a rope,” recalls 37-year-old Louis Jordan who was lost hundreds of miles off the American east coast. “And then I just stuck my hand in [the water] and put my hand right next to them and scooped them up.”
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the open water, do you tend to swim to the right or swim to the left? Do you know? If you are directionally-challenged and are (seemingly) incapable of swimming straight in an open body of water without lifting your head frequently, do you know the fundamental reasons why
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Peter Wernicki serves as the Aquatics Sub-Council Chairman on the American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council and Medical Advisor to the United States Lifesaving Association (USLA). Dr. Wernicki is considered an influential global leader in water safety and drowning prevention. Under his leadership, the Red Cross and USLA
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When swimmers get together – in real life or online – they often share how much they are training, how difficult their last swim was, how sore they are or how busy they are managing their workouts and work. They talk about the turbulence they face in the ocean,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Evenel Mervilus, chairman of La Fédération d’Haïti, l’Association de Natation Haïtienne et de Sauvetage (FHSAS), and Executive Secretary Dr. Mendelssohn Maurice, have a huge task at hand and a lot on his plate. But the big-hearted, personable man from Ville De Petite Rivière De L’Artibonite, Artibonite, Haïti is
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