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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Torture Swim is a dramatic televised story about the Cork Distance Week, its founder Ned Denison and the various personalities around the world who gather in Cork, Ireland to participate in the world’s most arduous open water training camp. Torture Swim was created and produced by 60 Minutes of […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A stage swim is a type of solo open water swimming attempt, relay or race conducted over two or more consecutive days where the distance of the individual stages can vary on each day and the starting point of the subsequent stages begins at or near the same point
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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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21 swimmers will take the plunge in the Solent Swim Challenge on October 5th from Stokes Bay to Ryde in aid of the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Troll dolls are known for their hair that sticks straight up and all over the place, but we didn’t realize they swim. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo of the younger lifeguard participants in the early morning hours before the Mega, also known as Megacolossus, a Huntington State Beach Lifeguards Association-sponsored endurance contest in the sand and offshore waters of the Pacific Ocean. In mid-July, the John Rodgers-organize Mega consists of 5 beach runs totaling 8.5
Courtesy of WOWSA at the foot of the Seal Beach Pier in Southern California. The British do it in London’s Serpentine. Americans do it from New York’s Coney Island to San Francisco’s Aquatic Park. The Aussies do it in Melbourne’s Brighton Baths. The Czechs do it in Vltava river in Prague. And, now in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are many different landmarks and memorials named after open water swimmers around the world including statues, clocks, coves and schools. A global sampling of these memorials include the Jim Doty Memorial Clocks, Vicki Keith Point, Cliff Lumsdon Park, McConica Cove, Webb Crescent, Captain Webb Primary School, Webb House,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ticket prices were recently announced for 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games. Tickets will go on sale to Brazilians in March 2015 and to non-Brazilians later next year. Ticket prices per session for Aquatics are (all in Brazilian Reals with conversions to US Dollars are shown below): – Olympic 10K
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