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Report courtesy of AFP covering the Matías Ola-organized 2014 International Winter Swimming Festival Argentina. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 27 straight years, the men and women of Los Angeles County have ruled the shores of America. For 27 consecutive years, the lifeguards of Los Angeles County have demonstrated their dominance at the United States Lifesaving Association National Lifeguard Championships. It was an unprecedented dynasty. But after a generation
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 8th annual Bridge to Bridge 10K is a 6-mile current-assisted open water swimming competition in San Francisco Bay that requires swimmers traverse from the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge that connects San Francisco and Oakland. The San Francisco Bay 10K Bridge to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901 miles or 40,075 km. It would take a lifetime to swim the equivalent of this distance, but it is our guess that many veteran open water swimmers have either swum this equivalent or are really close. Swimmers like Jim
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Photo of John Keller courtesy of John Keller in Nebraska. Kris Rutford has logged 27,359 km (17,000 miles) in pools and the open water during his training and competition career over the 24 years. 20 of those years, the Nebraska resident has participated in one of the most visible and popular marathon swims in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Camps Bay Beach is an affluent suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Big Bay Events hosts the Women’s Day Swim there every year on August 9th to commemorate the events of 1956 when women participated in a national march to petition against pass laws. This legislation required African persons
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Erica Price volunteered for this year’s Brooklyn Bridge Swim organized by NYC Swim. “I love the ocean and swimming. It’s humbling and wonderful [to volunteer], but there were volunteers giving out water and doing behind-the-scenes work who are the unsung heroes.” The New York City-based photographer specializes in editorial
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The International Mermaid Swimming Instructors Association has got to be one of the most fun, innovative open water swimming governing body in the world. Its captures the imagination. It enables entertainment. It powers pleasure in the most creative way. Established in 2012 on the island of Boracay in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A small, but quickly emerging group of open water swimmers are located in Manaus in northern Brazil. Manaus is the capital of the state of Amazonas where there are 3 rivers converge: the Amazon, Rio Negro and Rio Solimões with a passionate team of young and masters open water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When there is a pack of swimmers, where should you swim? If you breathe primarily to the right, you want the pack on your right as you draft and sight off the lead swimmers. If you breathe primarily to the left, you want the pack on your left as
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