If You Need Kayakers In Big Surf
Courtesy of Issac Sokol in Makaha, Hawaii.
If an ocean swimmer needs kayakers to help them navigate and be escorted, we cannot think of a more capable group of ocean-savvy watermen than Team Grom [shown above].
Jamie O’Brien, Kalani Chapman, Kaikea Elias, Scotty Clelland, Sean McInerney, Brad Domke and Brian Emory all rode a huge wave on the west side of Oahu in Makaha a few months ago.
Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association 
If an ocean swimmer needs kayakers to help them navigate and be escorted, we cannot think of a more capable group of ocean-savvy watermen than Team Grom [shown above].
Jamie O’Brien, Kalani Chapman, Kaikea Elias, Scotty Clelland, Sean McInerney, Brad Domke and Brian Emory all rode a huge wave on the west side of Oahu in Makaha a few months ago.
Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff.
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