To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of John Severson (SURFER), Bruce Brown, Jim Freeman and Greg MacGillivray. We love watching great body surfers who understand how to utilize the ocean’s power so they can propel themselves quickly and elegantly in the open water. The fluidity of their motion, the raw joy of their actions, and the interactive dynamism between humans […]
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Courtesy of Jacques Tuset, swimming from the Fort Royal de Sainte-Marguerite to Palm Beach in Cannes, France together with Ned Denison and Jean-Yves Faure. Jacques Tuset is on a roll and is on his way to complete all the Prison Island Swims with Alcatraz Island (USA), Le Château d’If (France), Fort Boyard (France), Île de
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Trinity Arsenault’s north-to-south crossing of Lake Ontario this summer was considered one of the most courageous crossings on record in the Great Lakes. Her swim started off smoothly with reasonable water temperatures and small waves. But as the sun rose, the winds picked up. As the day progressed, the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Listen to the music that pulsates throughout the documentary film by Wayne Ewing about Matthew Moseley‘s unprecedented 25-mile 14 hour 55 minute crossing of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana here. The music of David Amram, Papa Mali and Alfred Uganda Roberts played all night and morning long as he swam
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Joy and relief at finished the 15 km Cold Half marathon swim in Hong Kong. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Righardt Krugel of South Africa completed his charity swim around Mallorca, Spain. Everything seemed to hit Krugel as he made his way around Mallorca in a 276.5 km solo stage swim that took 22 days. The unrelenting heat, an injured shoulder on Day One, a stomach virus en route,
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Bering Strait Swimming Near The Top Of The World Courtesy of Nuala Moore of the Bering Strait Swim between Russia and Alaska, U.S.A.. The 6-day relay crossing of the Bering Strait was unprecedented in its scope and daring. With the seeds planted by American Lynne Cox, a team of hardened swimmers expanded upon her 1987
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Courtesy of Andrew Martens of RC Helicam. It’s getting to be that time again this year…start thinking about the aQuellé Midmar Mile. Andrew Martens took the aerial footage above of the first day of the 2013 aQuellé Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, organized by Wayne Riddin. The aQuellé Midmar Mile is the world’s largest
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Photos of Cristian Vergara of Chile, courtesy of Nuala Moore. With the moment of truth about to hit him in the ice swimming event, what possibly could Cristian Vergara be thinking? And how does he get through it? The mind of ice swimmers will be revealed in a handbook prepared by the United States Winter
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Courtesy of Anders Jakobsson on his Chesapeake Bay Crossing where he swam 26.4 km (16.4 miles) in 11 hours 28 minutes from Fisherman’s Island to Chic’s Beach in Virginia Beach, Virginia on September 3rd 2014.. Crossing the Chesapeake Bay has been a long-head goal by Anders Jakobsson, a swimmer from Västerås, Sweden who currently lives
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