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Toa o le Tai – Kroc Center of Camden from Bruckner Chase. Toa o le Tai means Hero of the Sea or Ocean warriors in the Samoan language. The learn-to-swim and learn-about-the-ocean program in American Samoa has now expanded to Camden, New Jersey by Bruckner Chase and Dr. Michelle Evans-Chase. What is really cool is […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Newport Beach, home of The Wedge, the renowned body surfing spot in Southern California, usually has some pretty decent surf. Ocean swimmers along the various coasts of the world understand how they have to dive under the breaking waves to get through the heavy surf. The organizers of the
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Courtesy of Night Train Swimmers, swimming in the mouth of San Francisco Bay, California. A widely-known saying about boats is that “the happiest day of a boat owner’s life is the day they buy the boat and the day they sell it.” That is certainly not true of Captain Vito Bialla who loves taking his
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Photo of the victorious Rachele Bruni of Italy, courtesy of Deep Blue Media in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Rachele Bruni of Italy finished first (2:07:31.8) in the new FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Abu Dhabi ahead of Siyu Yan of China and 27 others from around the world including world champions
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Garfield Thomas is a throwback, a masterful swimmer, a reminder of the anti-aging properties of healthful living augmented by an aquatic lifestyle. The 74-year-old competitive pool and open water swimmer from Wales recently smashed the 70-74 age group record across Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida in 18:37.0, breaking the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 496 swimmers from 46 nations were included in FINA’s annual Top 25 pool swimmers in 2014. When the best open water swimming nations (see country rankings below from the 2013 FINA World Championships) are compared with the 2014 world individual pool swimmer rankings, there are patterns, similarities and differences:
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is always tough for race directors to cancel an event, especially when they have been planning year-round. All the effort and expectations, all the people and passion, are put aside, usually due to safety considerations. Expenses are incurred and hopes are dashed. But the best race directors know
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. James Nestor writes in DEEP: Life, Death & Amphibious Humans at the Last Frontier on Earth, “Freediving amid marine life is the most direct and intimate way to connect with the ocean.” Nestor learns to freedive and unveils startling facets of human physiology, most prominently the life-preserving reflexes known
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the 2015 Crippen Cup 10K Marathon Invitational coming up in March 28th in Florida and Fran Crippen TYR Swim Meet of Champions in California coming up in June, it is time to look back at open water swimmers who have inspired many over the last 140 years. Not
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Penny Nagel recently coined a few new terms for the open water swimming community while training in La Jolla Cove near San Diego, California: swink, swank, swunk. To swink is to swim so far that the swimmer feels drunk. The past tense of swink is to swank and swunk.
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