Swimming At Scale
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi broke his boat-pulling record (by weight) by pulling a 1014-ton ship 425 meters in 35 minutes [shown above] on May 22nd.
He was harnessed in with a heavy cable system tethered around his chest in order to accomplish the boat pull [Iron Swim1000].
Belhedi, together with Minister Majdouline Cherni of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Tunisia and Imed Jabri, Secretary of State for Youth and Sports, will host the upcoming Global Open Water Swimming Conference at the Bizerta Hotel Resort in Tunis between September 9th – 13th.
The 2017 Global Open Water Swimming Conference will cover and discuss open water swimming’s niche disciplines (marathon swimming, channel swimming, ice swimming, winter swimming, stage swimming, wild swimming, high-altitude swimming, and mass participation swims, Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix series, and FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup series) where Shelley Taylor-Smith, Ger Kennedy, Rory Fitzgerald, and other luminaries will speak.
The 2017 Global Open Water Swimming Conference will be held September 9th – 11th; Ouma will be held September 12th at Sidi Salem Beach at the Bizerta Resort Hotel, and a World Iron Swim will be held September 13th in the Bizerta Channel.
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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. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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