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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The professional marathon swimmers file out in order to their next event). Methodical, systematic, organized…these adjectives come to mind, but when the athletes hit the open water, then the orderliness of the event vanishes in the dynamics of the ocean and competition among the athletes. Copyright © 2015 by […]
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Courtesy of Dan Kutler from San Francisco Bay. “One morning, I went down to the docks at the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco to shoot a portrait of my friend,” explains 1996 Olympic swimmer Dan Kutler. “When we were done, I started taking pictures of the other swimmers. When I looked at them
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Courtesy of Dan Kutler from San Francisco Bay. “One morning, I went down to the docks at the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco to shoot a portrait of my friend,” explains 1996 Olympic swimmer Dan Kutler. “When we were done, I started taking pictures of the other swimmers. When I looked at them
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The vortex just keeps spinning in the open water swimming world. Once one or two open water swimming events are established in a local area, it seems that the community just starts to keep growing larger and larger. Once Doug Woodring started a few events in Hong Kong, like
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “We are excited about the H2O Play Swim Series,” explains Pádraig Mallon. “We are going to work with other swim organisers and try to help open water swimming in our region. This is more than just swimming; it is building communities in our region with people who have the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After nearly looking at the Catalina Channel for nearly 40 years, the 20.2-mile waterway between the Southern California coast and Santa Catalina Islands has never appeared so crowded to us. As the strike by workers at 29 West Coast ports continues, affecting 40% of the amount of imports coming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I have never met anyone like him,” said Steven Munatones of Dale Petranech, the Honorary Secretary of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and recent International Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Open Water Swimming Contributor. “Dale is the epitome of selfless devotion to the sport and its athletes.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Speedo’s Danie Marais had what it took to stand on a top the podium at the inaugural Sanlam Cape Mile swim, near Cape Town, South Africa. The 22-year-old Marais finished in 17:41, a second ahead of Brown in 17:40 with the King of Midmar Mile Ho a very surprising
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Courtesy of Dan Kutler from San Francisco Bay. “One morning, I went down to the docks at the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco to shoot a portrait of my friend,” explains 1996 Olympic swimmer Dan Kutler. “When we were done, I started taking pictures of the other swimmers. When I looked at them
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. New Zealand open water swimming champion Kane Radford beat Phillip Ryan at the 2.8 km State La Grande Swim in Akaroa, New Zealand. The 24-year-old Radford was a body length ahead as the two swimmers exited the water and finished in 31:08 to 31:06 for Ryan. Troy Balvert hung
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