To educate, entertain, and enthuse those who venture beyond the shore
Courtesy of Antonio Argüelles, The Olympic Club, San Francisco, California. Look very closely at the mosaic above and you may see photos of the following individuals: Lewis Pugh – UK Swimming for Change Lewis is a maritime lawyer, an ocean advocate and a passionate endurance swimmer. He has an unparalleled list of firsts including the […]
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Courtesy of Red Bull Media House, Margate Beach, Great Britain. Ross Edgley completed his Great British Swim, an assisted stage swim around the coastlines of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. The unprecedented circumnavigation swim around Great Britain started on June 1st and ended on Margate where it started on November 18th 2018. From the start
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Antarctica Ice Swimming Adventure By Ram Barkai Courtesy of Ram Barkai of International Ice Swimming Association in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. Ram Barkai is the visionary behind 14 swimmers completing the Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim in Port Lockroy on November 23rd and in Mikkelsen Bay on November 25th in the Southern Ocean along the
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Ross Edgley’s Great British Swim Voted 2018 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Courtesy of Red Bull Media House, Margate Beach, Great Britain. The year 2018 saw an incredible number of outstanding swims by outstanding swimmers guided by passionate volunteers and governed by experienced administrators and coaches all over the world. The athletes
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Island swims are solo, stage, competitive, relay or charity open water swims or swim vacations to, from, on, in, near or around islands in any open body of water. There are tens of thousands of island swims around the world. The World’s Top 100 Island Swims for 2019 include
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Marcella ‘Marcy’ MacDonald is the most recent dual inductee in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (Class of 2019 Honor Open Water Swimmer) and the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Class of 2005 Honor Swimmer). Known as The American Queen of the English Channel, she was also
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1996 Atlanta Olympic Games Men’s 50m Freestyle Finals Gold: Alexander Popov (Russia) 22.13 Silver: Gary Hall, Jr. (USA) 22.26 Bronze: Fernando Scherer (Brazil) 22.29 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games Men’s 100m Freestyle Finals Gold: Alexander Popov (Russia) 48.74 Silver: Gary Hall, Jr. (USA) 48.81 Bronze: Gustavo Borges (Brazil) 49.02 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Men’s 50m Freestyle
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Surviving the Lagoon at the International Ocean Film Festival. Fiji. Tahiti. Mo’orea. Samoa. Barbados. U.S. Virgin Islands. Bonaire. There are just a few locations where open water swimmers can encounter the marine life in and around coral reefs in established events. Surviving the Lagoon, directed by Gilles Kebaïli and Manuel Lefevre, is being showcased tonight
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KImberley Chambers talks about fear and its place and importance in our lives in a TEDx Talk at the Santa Catalina School
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