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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers, coaches and crews have found many ways to communicate with others on terra firma (dryland) while out doing a channel swim or other open water swim in remote locations. Many of the options include sending photos, text, SMS, or pings via their mobile devices to their […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephanie Peacock got her first international taste of competitive open water swimming in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at the King and Queen of the Sea. While she just missed out on a victory together with Chip Peterson, she was the queen of Miramar Lake in Florida today after winning
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After Tuomas Kaario was helped by Päivi Pälvimäki in his 58 km crossing between Tallinn in Estonia to Porkkala in Finland in July 2014, the pair took their passion for the open water to another level. Kaario and Pälvimäki operate Swimming Holidays in Finland that provides open water swimming,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Perhentian Islands (or Pulau Perhentian in Malay) are islands 19 km off the northeastern coast of West Malaysia. The main island is Perhentian Besar is a growing base to international tourists. It is site of the Raleigh Round Island Challenge, an 18 km circumnavigation swim around Perhentian Besar.
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Courtesy of Jacqueline McClelland at the Bumble Bee Dip at Front Shore, Warrenpoint, Co. Down, Ireland. Jacqueline McClelland reports from Ireland with a rainbow off in the distance, “Despite the rain and and a gusty wind, the sea was calm for a great turnout at the first swim of the season on the Camlough Lake
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David Yudovin, Ocean Pioneer Extraordinaire, Passes Away Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dale Petranech reported that International Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Open Water Swimmer David Yudovin unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack. As a major benefactor of the sport, a quiet inspirational icon among channel swimmers, and the head and visionary of
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Photo courtesy of Dirk Erasmus at Cape Recife, South Africa. California ocean swimmer Penelope Nagel coined another open water swimming term – a blend of swell + hallucination – while on an ocean swim outside of La Jolla Cove, California: Swellunication is the state or condition of becoming disoriented in the ocean among swells, believing
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore, inside the Arctic Circle. International marathon swimming superstar Petar Stoychev [shown below] joined forces with the International Ice Swimming Association team of Kieron Palframan, Ryan Stramrood and Ram Barkai to create a formidable relay at the World Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, Russia. When the charismatic quartet walk dramatically from the
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore from inside the Arctic Circle. 7-time world marathon swimming champion Shelley Taylor-Smith has trained for many things during her career: world championship races, circumnavigations around Manhattan Islands, solo marathon swims in Australia, World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation races (in the pre-FINA era), relays and races from Oceania to the Mediterranean. She
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “That’s 35 km swim from Saudi Arabai to the Kingdom of Bahrain, he didn’t have to do it in such trying conditions,” recalled Chloë McCardel about His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa. McCardel certainly knows about grit and guts, having pushed herself around some of the world’s
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