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Courtesy of Plasticity, Suva, Fiji, California. Doug Woodring announced 2019 Plasticity Pacific will be held in Suva, Fiji on March 13th. Copyright © 2008-2019 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Guila Muir of Say Yes To Life Swims at Price Waterhouse Cooper Café, Seattle, Washington. Guila Muir swims in the state of Washington with the Notorious Alki Swimmers in West Seattle. Muir created Say Yes To Life Swims that offers swim excursions and open water swimming tours and adventures throughout the year and
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Courtesy of Dan Wegner, Southern Pacific Masters Swimming, Huntington Beach, California. The start of ocean swims in Southern California include on-the-beach starts and finishes where swimmers have to negotiate incoming surf as they head out and can bodysurf in on their way swimming into the finish. Dan Wegner of Club Assistant announced the 2019 Southern
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Peter Davis is the current President of the United States Lifesaving Association, managing lifeguards and beach lifeguarding throughout the USA. Davis has long selflessly served as a voluntary official with the USLA since 1985 where he has accomplished a variety of programs including a partnership
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Courtesy of International Ice Swimming AssociationKate Steels-Fryatt on 15 December 2017 in Lac Aguelmame Sidi, Africa in 3.83°C water and -2.00°C air, 1.13 miles in 35:00 minutes 327. Jane Mulderrig on December 2017 in Rotherham, Sheffield, Great Britain in 4.03°C water, 1.05 miles in 32:45 minutes 328. Ger Kennedy on 22 February 2018 in M
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Courtesy of Carlsbad Open Water Swimming, Carlsbad, California. Carlsbad Open Water Swimming is an ocean swimming pod of 1,046 members located north of San Diego. Co-organizers Kurt Weiser and Chuck Deerinck explains, “We swim in the ocean in the mornings. We prefer waves to lane lines. We don’t mind if the water is cold. We
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Courtesy of Ioannis Kifonidis, Nikiti, Greece. The unofficial teaser of A Swim Across, a motion picture about open water swimming centered around the International Swimming Marathon of Toroneos Gulf, a 26 km competition that has been held from Kalithea, Kassandra to Nikiti, Sithonia in Halkidiki since 1971 in Greece. The film was written by Ioannis
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2019 IISA World Championship In Murmansk Video courtesy of International Ice Swimming Association 2015 World Championships in Murmansk, Russia. Dmitry Blokhin and Ram Barkai, founder of the International Ice Swimming Association announced the IISA 3rd World Championship and 1st Arctic Cup that will be held in Murmansk‘s Semenovskoe Lake in Russia between March 14th –
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Devon Clifford Completes Triple Crown Of Stage Swims Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Devon Clifford has a long track record of success in the open water. But in 2018, she became pioneers of a different sort. She became the first woman to complete the Triple Crown of Stage Swims, a three-event series for solo
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Joe Zemaitis Is FAST, Pioneers Triple Crown Of Stage Swims Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach. Joe Zemaitis is an inspirational athlete, coach, teacher and author from Arizona. “As a coach, I was motivated to help swimmers because I believe every child has a core genius, a natural talent, something he or she is particularly good
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