Jonty Warneken Encourages All To Go Beyond The Shore
Jonty Warneken proposes the Para Five
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2015 Ice Swimming World Championships In Murmansk
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Irina Andreeva and Dmitry Blokhin reported on the 2015 Ice Swimming World Championship in Murmansk, Russia at the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on the Isle of Bute in Scotland. This is their report: Murmansk is the world’s biggest city located inside the Arctic circle. We have polar
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Channel Swimmer Calls Attention To Saving Kerkennah
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over the next few generations, the Kerkennah – Sfax Channel swim will not be possible. For various reasons, the Kerkennah Islands are expected to disappear by the year 2050. The population of the islands has significantly decreased since the 1980s. Additionally, with clean water rapidly running out, many islanders
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Helping The Hardened – The New IISA
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ram Barkai spoke about the First Ice Swimming World Championships that will be held in Murmansk, Russia in March 2015 as well as his newly structured International Ice Swimming Association at the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Isle of Bute, Scotland. “We are still learning a lot
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Jan Moffat Osband Teaching The Unteachable
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jan Moffat Osband is a part-time Total Immersion Instructor whose specialty is teaching the unteachable. “I spent 4 years in Southern California at SCAQ in the slow lane,” says the 59-year-old from Perthshire, Scotland. “I was better in breaststroke, and moved up a few lanes during breaststroke. But we
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David Yudovin’s Legacy Around The Globe
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. David Yudovin has a handle on things. His family knows. His friends know. His co-workers know. And the marathon swimming community knows very well. This past weekend, Yudovin of California was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame on the Isle of Bute in Scotland for his four
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Mercedes Gleitze: The Spirit of a New Age To Air
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doloranda Pember reported that the documentary entitled Mercedes Gleitze: The Spirit of a New Age, produced by Clare Delargy of Delargy Productions of Northern Ireland, will be broadcast later this year on Foxtel’s Bio Channel (Biography Channel). It will first be shown in Australia and New Zealand. The documentary
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Mike Read Remembers A Cold, Cold Day On Loch Ness
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is traditional at International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) induction ceremonies for a former honouree to give the ISHOF (red) or IMSHOF (green) sash to the current honouree. In the case of Dale Petranech who was inducted as an Honour
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Wayne Snellgrove Continues To Negative Split
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wayne William Snellgrove, a former national-level swimmer, unexpectedly tore his rotator cuff three months during his senior year before the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championship. It effectively put the fast swimmer out of the water in his senior year. “The doctors said it was a career-ending injury, back
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Rolling Home to Bonnie Scotland
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doloranda Pember accepted the International Swimming Hall of Fame honors that we bestowed upon her mother Mercedes Gleitze on the Isle of Bute, Scotland. This is what she said on behalf of her mother: Thank you so much for the honours you have conferred upon my mother, Mercedes Gleitze.
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