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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Mother Nature acts normally in the Tsugaru Channel, tempestuous, turbulent, temperamental, it is best to throw mankind’s best at her. In a heavyweight bout, send in a proven battler. Offer up someone with plenty of guts and full of grit. An individual with the daring and the mindset […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Douglas McConnell, Managing Director of Vissant Capital Corporation, has very good reasons to keep swimming. McConnell is swimming to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation. “We are closing in in US$300,000 with all of the A Long Swim [that include his Tampa Bay Marathon Swim and English Channel crossing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today, word out of Scotland leaked out that Guy Moar of Melbourne, Australia completed a North Channel crossing in an unconfirmed time of 11 hours after landing in Galloway, Scotland. The conditions were good while Moar maintained a constant pace despite swimming through a sea fog that offered nothing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Elliot Spaeder did not let down his team, family or friends today. “After months of preparing physically and after mentally preparing myself since high school, I was ready to attempt this great feat. Of course, I couldn’t have done this without some really important people in my life, Molly
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ben Hooper is a British open water swimmer who served with the military and police. A multi-faceted swimmer, he also writes fiction and is a free diver, PADI scuba diver, charity swim participant, middle-distance running and triathlete. But he has huge dreams. He plans to swim across the Atlantic
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Like the famed Loch Ness in Scotland and Lake Memphremagog that stretching from Quebec, Canada to Vermont, USA, legend has it that there is a monster of sorts that lives in Bear Lake, located on the border of Utah and Idaho. Monster or not, the swimmers in the annual
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 39-year-old Antonio Saint Aubyn completed another long swim. He completed a 105 km swim from Margarita to Puerto La Cruz in Venezuela in 38 hours 15 minutes. From 7 am on Puerto de Guamache, Nueva Esparta to his finish at 9:15 pm in front of relatives, he was dependent
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Courtesy of Capri Djatiasmoro, Huntington Beach, California. Capri Djatiasmoro, a 63-year-old dynamo and volunteer extraordinaire with NYC Swim, decided to give herself a nice present for her 63rd birthday. The Project Manager from M&J Edelman & Associates decided to go long and go hard, swimming all the way around Manhattan Island. On July 12th, she
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The American Swimming Association announced that a new First Responder category for its 11th Annual Lake Travis Relay on October 11th. The First Responder Category includes Law Enforcement (including police, sheriff departments, FBI, etc.), Firefighter, EMT, Military, Lifeguard, and Open divisions. The Open division includes any combination of other
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. SEALs for Sunshine is a marathon swim by 4 individual Navy SEALs across Maine’s Sebago Lake, a distance of 13 miles. The quartet’s charity swim is scheduled for August 21st. It is not only a charity swim on behalf of Camp Sunshine, but it also may set the wheels
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