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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yasunari Hirai, an Olympic 10K marathon swimmer from Japan, launched a new personal website – see here. The magazine cover model from Chiba Prefecture (north of Tokyo) is a hungry athlete. He thrives on competition, both domestically throughout Japan and internationally across 5 continents around the world. He travels […]
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Honor and respect are necessary in our ever-interconnected world. Open water swimmers honor those individuals who have gone before them and respect the bodies of water they swim in. But safety and symbolism are even more important in the open water swimming world. Safety goes without question in open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John Chapman explains about Will Swim For Food, the annual 1-mile charity swim in 53°F water next to the Santa Cruz [California] Municipal Wharf. John Chapman (second from right) is shown above with Suzie Dods, Greg Lendahl, and Bruckner Chase at the Monterey Beach SportsFest. Copyright © 2014 by
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adrian Sarchet is a 39-year-old Advocate from Guernsey, one of the British Channel Islands. With his recent 4 hour 1 minute crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar, Sarchet has now completed 3 of the 7 channels in the Oceans Seven and is gearing up for four more. Besides his
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Courtesy of WOWSA, swimming backstroke looking up towards the sky in Huntington Beach, California. When we swim in ocean and the swell are large and the shoreline is unseen in the distance, it is easy to feel how infinitesimally small humans are in the grand scheme of Mother Nature. In an office, in school or
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. More than 4 days into their 400 km non-stop relay from Cyprus to Israel, Udi Erell, Doron Amosi, Ben Enosh, Ori Sela, Oded Rahav, and Luc Chetboun were each Walkerized for over 6 hours by a pod of dolphins en route from Cyprus to Israel. The men are expected
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Steven Minaglia completed his channel swim across the Catalina Channel. For the extraordinarily busy physician and professor who can only train in the warm waters of Honolulu, his challenge to prepare and complete channel swims are more than most. While his recent Tsugaru Channel attempt in northern Japan
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Captain Greg Elliot starts to play his bagpipes, it is truly music to the ears of the swimmers and crew who he escorts across the Catalina Channel. Captain Elliot is an escort pilot for the Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, escorting dozens of channel swimmers and relays between Santa
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. More than 3 days into their 400 km non-stop relay from Cyprus to Israel, Udi Erell, Doron Amosi, Ben Enosh, Ori Sela, Oded Rahav, and Luc Chetboun are hanging tough on their attempt to break the record for the longest non-stop 6-person open water relay record. Nearly a year
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 22nd annual 2.6 km interisland Travesía a Nado El Río from Lanzarote to La Graciosa in the Canary Islands (Islas Canarias). The island-to-island crossing traverses between the islands of Lanzarote and La Graciosa is in a gorgeous Marine Reserve called El Río (‘The River‘). El Río can be
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