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“It Was The Hardest Swim Of My Life,” Rob Woodhouse Achieves The Oceans Seven

by | July 7, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Rob Woodhouse (Australia, 59, MSF bio here) succeeded at what he described as the “hardest swim of his life.” The shortest straight-line tangent between Honshu and Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan is 19.5 km, but...
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Now It is His Turn: Dr. Tapan Kumar Panigrahi Swimming 81 km

by | July 5, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Dr. Tapan Kumar Panigrahi coached Sayani Das across the 14.4 km Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco in 3 hours 51 minutes in a tandem swim with Ryan Utsumi to complete her sixth Oceans Seven channel crossing. He has...
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Lady Merle Liivand Goes From The Sea To Hollywood

by | July 5, 2025 | honors | 0 Comments

Several dozens of open water swimmers have been nationally honored by their governments for their body of work in the water and on dryland.
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With Swimmers Lining Up On Japanese Shores, What About The Predicted Mega Earthquake and Impending Tsunami?

by | July 4, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Screenshot July 5th is the date of a massive mega earthquake that is predicted to hit Japan. The massive earthquake could cause trillions of dollars of property damage and lead to many deaths and a resultant tsunami that would be unprecedented in contemporary times....
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Don’t Be A Tombstone – The Freak Injury of Mark Sowerby

by | July 4, 2025 | open water swimming | 1 Comment

Mark Sowerby became the 29th person in history to complete the Oceans Seven with his 10 hour 6 minute crossing of the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan
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Steven Muñatones

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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.

Record-setting…It Can Get Complicated

Record-setting…It Can Get Complicated

Jun 30, 2025 |

Over the many years of writing about open water swimming, there is often great interest on the part of some swimmers to set records. These individuals want to be the first, fastest, slowest, oldest, youngest, longest (whether by distance or time), earliest-to-complete...

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