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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doug Woodring traveled from Hong Kong and Carina Bruwer traveled from South Africa to the northwest coast of Italy. They are both participating in the Swim The Island event along with many others around the world at the Isola di Bergeggi. “Great event with over 1,200 swimmers, organized by […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jackson Klarsfeld and Robert Schotter went at it head-to-head three separate times at the inaugural Monterey Beach SportsFest in California. Their first race of the Chase Challenge was a strategic double-loop 2.5-mile ocean swim followed by a fast out-and-back 1-mile race and culminating in a 0.5-mile flat-out sprint. The
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Suzie Dods, the event founder and organizer of the 24 Hour Swim Relay in San Francisco, California talks about her inaugural relay challenge in Aquatic Park together with participants Greg Lendahl, John Chapman, and Bruckner Chase. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At this weekend’s Monterey Beach SportsFest in Monterey Bay, Bruckner Chase introduced open water swimming to kids who live very close to the California coastline, but have never interacted with the marine environment. Regina Mason, co-founder of Village Project in Seaside, explains the opportunity to expose the local kids
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At this weekend’s Monterey Beach SportsFest in Monterey Bay, California, there were numerous groups represented that work to help maintain and improve the marine environments where open water swimmers enjoy and explore. One of the organizations, Reef Check Foundation was represented by a young American diver Corina Marks, a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pete Albers, a co-founder of the Monterey Beach SportsFest together with Terry Bilbro, is a member of the Kelp Krawlers pod. Fellow member Crystal Perry [shown above with Albers] explains, “We swim 3 times per week with 20-40 people on average for each swim. We probably have 75 people
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 60 Minutes flew to Cork, Ireland to capture the world’s most grueling swim training camp run by Ned Denison. The American television film producers and crew were more than impressed and intrigued with the Cork Distance Week and its ambiance, goals and participants. “Calling Ned’s grueling swimming sessions a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2014 South American Swimming Championships (VIII Campeonato Sudamericano De Aguas Abiertas) are being held in Mar del Plata, Argentina this week (pool swimming, water polo, diving, synchronized swimming), but the open water events will be conducted at the October 26th (5 km) and 28th (10 km). The South
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad‘s swim from Cuba to Florida was recently commemorated by the placement of a memorial plaque on Smathers Beach in Florida. The plaque reads, “Diana Nyad came ashore at this point on Smathers Beach on September 2, 2013, having swum 110.86 miles nonstop from Havana to Key West,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ajay Thakur, an open water swimmer from Mumbai, India, is planning to swim the 24 km (15-mile) Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It was a swim that recent International Swimming Hall of Fame honouree David Yudovin did for the first time in 2000. “This channel may
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