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Thomas Has Been On The Watch For Over 60 Years Courtesy of WOWSA, English Channel, California. Thomas Watch is a marvel. The British coach, crew and pilot was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honour Coach in 1986 and he is still active in his 80s. For over 60 years, […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Two German swimmers, Beatrix Eisel and Alexander Studzinski were in Hawaii to participate in the Maui Channel Swim and Waikiki Roughwater Swim, but their swims were preceded by a shoreline wedding and part of their honeymoon. They could not help but incorporate the ocean in their wedding. For years,
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BlueJourney-Amerika Samoa – Stronger Together: The Waterman’s Way, a documentary film by Bruckner Chase, has received accolades at the following film festivals: * Beneath the Waves International Film Festival 2014 – Official Selection * Beneath the Waves Santa Cruz Film Festival – Official Selection * World Oceans Day Hawaii Film Festival – Official Selection *
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 13-year-old breaststroker Dashiell Hunter and 12-year-old backstroker Esme Hunter teamed up to win the Family Division at the Fairfield YMCA Mile Swim in Connecticut. The sibling’s cumulative time was just fast enough to beat 14-year-old Willow Woods and her 55-year-old father Chris for the overall title at Penfield Beach
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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 27th 5.2 km Traversée Dakar – Gorée in Dakar, Senegal will be held today on September 28th. The race goes from Thiaroye to La Voile d’Or where swimmers from Senegal, Nigeria, Mali, Gambia and America participate. Île de Gorée is a small island located 2 kilometers (1.2 miles)
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What Is Trending In Openwaterpedia? Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Openwaterpedia is like Wikipedia for the open water swimming world. It is a multi-lingual online reference and research tool that currently has 17,584 different entries that have been viewed 18,839,143 times to date. Among the entries, there are 8,883 people, 2,107 terms, 1,691 places,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On September 16th, French Creek Racing held its sixth and final open water race of the season in the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. The 6-part Upper Merion Open Water Swim Series are a series of 800m open water swims held on Tuesday nights. All’s well that ends well. “The
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