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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There will be another competitive international clash in New Zealand at this weekend’s 2.9 km State Harbour Crossing where Australian Olympian Jarrod Poort [on left] will compete against Olympian and New Zealand Ocean Swim Series leader Yasunari Hirai of Japan, George O’Brien of Australia, and top-ranked Kiwi Phillip Ryan. […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Basking sharks may swim slowly, no more than three miles per hour, are commonly spotted near the water’s surface, and passively feed on plankton as they swim with their mouth open. But as they sway back and forth with their massive bodies underneath or by an ocean swimmer, they
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Courtesy of Jim Clifford who became history’s oldest person to swim across the Catalina Channel. Around midnight on September 28th, I stepped off the beach at Catalina Island and entered the ocean on one of the darkest nights imaginable. There was only a sliver of moon visible and no light pollution from the island or
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Courtesy of Sabrina Ápeiron from Hell, Michigan. Sabrina Ápeiron discusses her Swimlosophy in Italian in a fascinating article posted here. It starts out with: Dormiva…? Poi si tolse e si stirò. Guardò con occhi lenti l’acqua. Un guizzo il suo corpo. Così lasciò la terra. She talks about how swimmers interact and think about the
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Photo courtesy of Hawkins Biggins during the 28-mile Ka’iwi Channel Swim between the islands of Molokai and Oahu in Hawaii. Up and down and left and right, open water swimmers are often tossed about in the open seas. Hawkins Biggins captures what the ocean swimmers view through their goggles under dynamic conditions in the Molokai
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When the winds increase and the ocean become swollen and turbulent with whitecaps, open water swimmers really feel like they get a good workout and have to put in a tremendous effort to deal with Mother Nature. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers often talk about the waves and wind, the turbulence and chop, the cold and the marine life of their sport. The challenge of fighting through the dynamic elements is what makes the sport so tough. But it is on those rare days out in the sea
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Marathon Swimmers Federation produced its first annual calendar with the work of Donal Buckley featured on its cover (and month of December). The impressive US$20 MSF Calendar features the following well-known swimmers and photographers: January: Anthony McCarley, English Channel. Photo by Roger Taylor. February: Santa Barbara Channel. Photo
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Team Umiou (海王《うみおう》) started out in cold, wet and dreary conditions on one side of the Tsugaru Channel, but finished under better conditions in their 12 hour 45 minute crossing from Hokkaido to Honshu. Captain Mizushima escorted Tomokazu Sakurai, Nobu Arihisa, Yuko Isozaki, Shinpei Kamata, Fujiko Kawasaki and Motoko
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Scenes are shown above from the Ka’iwi Channel Swim, a 28-mile marathon swim relay race from the island of Molokai to the island of Oahu last year. Organized by Jeff Kozlovich and Steve Haumschild, two teams battled it out for the victory. The story about The Youngsters (Terence Young,
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