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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This weekend on January 24th, Hong Kong will host the 3rd annual 14 km Cold Half event. Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung discussed the need for such international events so “Hong Kong waters can be used for promoting water recreational and sports activities and a water-friendly culture.” Doug […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lifelong swimmer Pam Lazzarotto often encounters the frustration of foggy goggles. Living in a small town in Canada in the middle of winter, she is surrounded by ice hockey fans and few swim shops. So the Canadian swimmer turns to Elite Hockey PROCLEAR 77 Anti-Fog spray. “I use it
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is difficult to clearly see in the video above but Allan Do Carmo and Chip Peterson had quite a battle on their anchor leg of the King and Queen of the Sea on Sunday. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In early July 1976, Dr. Sean O’Connell, a mathematics lecturer at Bermuda College and a member of the 24-hour Club, attempted the first recorded attempt at swimming around the island of Bermuda. Seven weeks later, Dr. O’Connell made a second attempt on August 21st. After 45 miles (72.4 km)
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Noelia Petti will host an open water swimming clinic at the 3.2 km Desafio Nonthue 2015 on January 23rd. Petti, known as the Dama del Río de la Plata, is a professional marathon swimmer from Argentina who competed on the 2013 and 2014 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) released its 2015 Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends. Body-weight training is identified as the world’s most popular fitness trend. This bodes well for many in the masters swimming and competitive aquatics communities. ACSM’s report states body-weight training claimed the top spot from
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Courtesy of Doloranda Pember about her mother Mercedes Gleitze. Doloranda Hannah Pember provided information about her mother’s swim of 30 hours in Cork, Ireland on February 25th and 26th 1930. Gleitze‘s swim took place in the Eglington Street Swimming Baths under the watchful eyes of stewards from the Munster Branch of the Irish Amateur Swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Coiba Island is located 15 miles (24 km) off the west coast of Panama, a notorious penal colony was established in 1919 for Panama’s most dangerous criminals and political dissidents where torture and murder were part of the landscape until 2004. But since its renewal as a national park,
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Courtesy of Rich Gorman, Laguna Beach, California, home of the Oak Streeters. Patsee Ober commented on a swim this week off of Shaws buoy in Laguna Beach, “We saw 2 orcas. They surfaced twice from about 50 and 25 yards then disappeared into Shaws chasm of blue water never to be seen again by us.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In Japan, the Kizuna Enei Oudan Project 2015 is underway. The Kizuna Enei Oudan Project includes 3 channel swims. The first is Niigata on the Japanese mainland to Sado Island across the Sado Channel, the second is between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Channel, and the third
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