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There is a certain amount of misinformation reported in the media about open water swimming. World Open Water Swimming Association looks at the data in an attempt to distill fact from fiction, reality from rumor. One issue that is commonly reported in the press is that “Most body heat escapes through your head.” This oft-used quote […]
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Wearing a wetsuit will make you look like a seal and therefore more likely to be attacked by a shark.”
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When fans, friends and family observe GPS units tracking marathon swimmers on their channel swims, it often appears that the swims do not start or finish on land. This leads some people to conclude that the swimmers do not abide by the established rules of open water swimming. That is, swimmers are expected to start
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ray Gandy, a member of the 24-hour club pictured on left with his special coating, will attempt to swim 50 miles from Newport, Vermont in America to Magog, Quebec in Canada this Saturday, July 14th. While professional marathon swimmers used to swim one length of lac Memphrémagog before the
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Stephen Redmond Achieves The Oceans Seven Courtesy of WOWSA, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. Today, Under the strangest and unlikeliest of circumstances in a far-away land, the remarkable Irishman Stephen Redmond completed the Tsugaru Channel in Japan to become the first person in history to achieve the Oceans Seven. The 47-year-old former rugby player from Ireland entered
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Yasunari Hirai and Yumi Kida, Japan’s two representatives at the Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim at the London Games, will receive a nice send-off at this weekend’s Japan Open in Tateyama. The 4 km relay and 10 km solo swim is the most competitive open water swim among the hundreds of events in Japan. One
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The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) website is now available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese. The IMSHOF site will also soon be made available in French and German. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame was established in 1961 to recognize the marathon swimmers throughout the world and is governed by
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The 8th annual Sheko Challenge and world’s only Trisolothon will be the first sports event in Hong Kong where zero plastic water bottles will be used for the athletes. Filtered water will be supplied by Life Solutions in BAMBOA’s re-useable bamboo cups (shown below), meaning swimmers will get cold, fresh water without leaving waste plastic
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At 91 years old, Roy Webster was still cheering on friends and family as they participated in the annual Columbia River Cross-Channel Swim. Webster, a local orchard owner, began the event 70 years ago when he challenged himself to swim across the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon at Hood River. Today close to 500
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When we observed Darren Miller attack the Tsugaru Channel, it definitely was a battle between man and nature. Mother Nature was Goliath, the heavyweight with the upper hand, while Miller was a flyweight facing an insurmountable bout. The swells running fast from the Sea of Japan were generated from strong cross winds running perpendicular and
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