To educate, entertain, and enthuse those who venture beyond the shore
All kinds of interesting images and events always happen all over the open water swimming world all the time. Here is a small sliver of a glimpse.
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The Naples Island Swim started its annual summer bay swims in 1903. The traditions continues tomorrow in Long Beach, California – where the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics 10K marathon swim will be held.
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Matthew McDermott and Theodora Sabev win the 2023 Naples Island Swims 3-mile race in Long Beach, California
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Naples Island Swim & SUP, Long Beach, California. Naples is a neighborhood of Long Beach, California where people have been swimming and competing around its three islands for generations. Naples is a built on three islands located in Alamitos Bay next to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics rowing basin and the Pacific
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For over four decades, the Naples Island Swim continues on. The California classic consisted of five events in Long Beach, California’s Los Alamitos Bay. Race director Merrit Johnson Morris, describes the various courses in this unique venue, “The one-mile race cuts through the canals in middle of Naples Island. The 3-mile race is a circumnavigational
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