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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Results from one of the longest running open water swimming competition in the Caribbean, the Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad & Tobago’s annual ASATT Maracas Bay Open Water Classic: 750m – 12 & Under – Male 1 Aqeel Joseph – Tidal Wave Aquatics 2 Aaron Bankay – Tidal Wave […]
Photos courtesy of Wayne Snellgrove, swimming in Hollywood, Florida. Oceans, bays, rivers and lakes. Open water swimmers love swimming at sunrise and sunset. From dark to light or vice versa, the setting sun beyond the horizon or the magnificent rays of the sun piercing through layers of clouds are beautiful to behold. Wayne Snellgrove trains
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo of Lewis Pugh during his Seven Swims In The Seven Seas For One Reason is courtesy of Kelvin Trautman. When Lewis Pugh promotes and encourages the expansion of Marine Protected Areas, we are reminded how different and separate our lives are on land – and how remarkably similar
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ilan Ben Dror is one of the organizers of one of the biggest open water swimming events in the world: over 10,000 people participate in the annual Sea of Galilee Swim. Why is the event so large? “Because Israel is very small country with one lake and one big
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Righardt Krugel is 9 days into his attempt to stage swim 360 km entirely around the island of Mallorca in Spain, becoming the first person in history to do so. In the process of attempting his Mallorca 360º, the South African swimmer is raising money for the Allen Graham
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo by Kelvin Trautman. I know a shark encounter is frightening; I had that happen to me a few times in Hawaii. I know jellyfish stings hurt; I had venom enter my system numerous times in Hawaii, Mexico, South Pacific, Japan, California and the Caribbean Sea. But nothing scares
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Courtesy of Jacqueline Galway at Carlingford lough Co., Ireland. The Smile Mile was held at Carlingford lough Co. Louth today in Ireland. “The swim is held to remember those you have lost – to celebrate the good times and to recognise those who have inspired you in life,” explains Jacqueline Galway. “70 swimmers jumped in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 38-year-old Alexandr Brylin and 45-year-old Grigorii Prokopchuk swam between the Diomede Islands on August 1st 2014 from Little Diomede in the USA to Big Diomede (or Ratmanova Island) in Russia. As part of the program ‘Arctic: The Present and The Future’, the two Russian ice swimmers swam across the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matthew Moseley swam shore-to-shore to the sound of music across Lake Pontchartrain in 14 hours 55 minutes, an historic swimming first. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Wayne Ewing used Moseley’s traverse across Lake Pontchartrain as the background to a new documentary film, Dancing In The Water. In the film, Ewing chronicles
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dolphins are seen as good luck in the ocean by open water swimmers. So are small gems like starfish. Olympian Yumi Kida found a cute starfish as she was walking into the Pacific Ocean on Shibukawa Beach (渋川海水浴場) in Okayama, Japan, a beautiful coastline of white sand and green
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