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Planning Update for Swim Shikoku: More Detailed Logistics

by | September 23, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Plannin for the 2026 Swim Shikoku event continues. The 88-day circumnavigation swim around the island of Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan, will start in July 2026.
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The Vision of Panagiotis Nastos, As Told By Stathis Avramidis

by | September 21, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Dr. Stathis Avramidis, President of the Greek Lifesaving Sports Association wrote a touching tribute to Panagiotis Nastos, a pharmacist in Piraeus who envisioned starting a swimming school in Greece, the first of its kind to help reduce the number of countless drownings that occurred at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Tokushima Kaiyo – Open Water Swimming Amid Offshore Islands and Reefs

by | September 21, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

The Tokushima Kaiyo Open Water Swim is held amid small offshore islands and beautiful reefs of the Takegashima Marine Park on the Japanese island of Shikoku.
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Rivers, Lakes, Oceans…So Wild and Untamed on the Tasmanian Wild West Series

by | September 20, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Val Kalmikovs announced the raw, untamed marathon swimming series in a lake, river, and ocean in Tasmania, Australia called the Tasmanian Wild West Series
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Nadine Bennett Does A Thomas Across Lake Willoughby

by | September 20, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Courtesy of Phil White. Photos courtesy of Kathleen Marcil. Doing a Thomas – or an unassisted, continuous four-way crossing of any open body of water – is never easy and always takes a significant amount of planning, with a splash of...
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Steven Muñatones was an American water polo player, a collegiate swimmer, and an open water swimmer from Huntington Beach, California. He has been a coach, administrator, writer, race director, kayaker, paddler, official, observer, author, lifeguard, reporter, Olympic commentator, aquapreneur, and adviser in the the sport of open water swimming.

He founded the World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Oceans Seven, WOWSA Awards, Openwaterpedia, KAATSU Global, and KAATSU Research Foundation and served as an ambassador for the American Heart Association. He has written over 21,344 articles on open water swimming, water polo, and KAATSU to date. He created the www.imshof.org, www.openwaterswimming.com, www.openwaterpedia.com, and www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com websites among many others.

He received the 1984 Harvard University John B. Imrie Award, 1990 Guinness World Record, 2001, 2005, 2007 USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Committee Award, 2002 Honor Swimmer, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, 2007 & 2010 USA Swimming Glen S. Hummer Award, 2010 Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2016 Poseidon Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2018 Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame, 2019 Honor Contributor – Media of the International Ice Swimming Hall of Fame, and 2022 Dale Petranech Award for Services to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.

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