Khoo Swee Chiow Dares To Dream Around The World
Khoo Swee Chiow is relentlessly positive as he has traveled to the ends of the world.The Malaysian adventurer is quite versatile having successfully climbed Mount Everest three times, reached both the South Pole and North Pole, completed the Seven Summits, cycled from Singapore to Beijing, completed the world’s longest scuba dive, and completed a circumnavigation of the Philippines on a kayak.
He also threw in marathon swim: 38 km across the Straits of Malacca from Tanjung Rupat in Indonesia to Port Dickson, Malaysia in 2004 in 21 hours 53 minutes.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Daily News of Open Water Swimming and founder of WOWSA. 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).
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