Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

Nearly 4,000 participants took part in the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro today. There were so many families who took part: mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins and grandparents.

Team [Valerio] Cleri of Italy and Team [Betina] Lorscheitter of Brazil were only a few examples in the crowd.

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