Places To Go, Places To Swim, Places To Save
If there is any group of people on this Earth who understand the beauty, power and allure of the open water, it is individuals in the open water swimming community.Gaute Hogh published a book called 100 Places to Go Before They Disappear. The global open water swimming community might want to add these locations to their travel schedule. “The whole purpose of this book was to show my children the effects of climate change. People usually show someone suffering and I wanted to show the positive side of it.
If we don’t do anything, we’ll lose some of these beautiful places. One of my missions with the book is to show teenagers, if you don’t turn off the water or turn down the heat, these places will disappear. They may say, ‘Why should I do this?’ But if I show them these pictures, they start to see it another way.”
Copyright © 2011 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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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