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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The turn buoys at the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) are easy-to-sight locators on the Grid Race course today on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Each buoy has a different color and sponsor name on it. Modeled by Alice Franco of Team […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Decades ago, we used to swim from Makapuʻu Beach at the eastern end of Oʻahu in Hawaii, around Mānana Island, an uninhabited islet located 1.2 km) off Kaupō Beach and back to shore. On most weekends, it was a difficult yet fantastically beautiful swim where every stroke was a
Courtesy of Dancing In The Water, a film by Wayne Ewing about Matthew Moseley‘s swim across Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Colin Hill of Chillswim swam in some rough, cold water in Ullswater, England yesterday. “This is where I have moved. There were strong winds and snow storms sweeping across the country. So it’s time to swim!“ It is that kind of passion for the sport of open water swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I never imagined Copacabana Beach would be cold,” remarked Chip Peterson after he emerged from the 16ºC waters. “I don’t remember it being cold at the Pan American Games.” The participants in the King and Queen of the Sea may be in for a surprise during this weekend’s event
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Brazil took the top honors in the open water swimming discipline.* It is clear that open water swimming is one of the highlights of the Brazil Swimming Federation’s efforts in its build-up to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Brazil has its
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Team Brazil, Team Germany, Team Italy, Team USA and Team Argentina are getting psyched for this afternoon’s Grid Race at the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Rubinstein is a Research Scientist at Google working on computer vision. Imagine if he was an open water swimmer and interested in expanding the scope of his work to understand, record and analyze the imperceptiable motions and changes in the bodies of open water swimmers? Rubinstein created a
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Courtesy of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) announced its Class of 2014 honourees this week: Honour Swimmers: * Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González (Mexico) * Forrest Nelson (U.S.A.) * Martin Strel (Slovenia) Honour Administrator: * Marty Veen (Netherlands) Honour Organisations: * Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club (United Kingdom)
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A blinkie is a flashing battery-powered illumination, often red- or green-colored, that is attached to an open water swimmer’s goggle strap. The flashing light can be seen during a night swim or in low visibility conditions in a channel swim or marathon swim. Some swimmers use only glow sticks