Black Sea Archives – World Open Water Swimming Association

Another Pioneering Success: 221 km Swim To Victory 2021
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Steven Munatones 05/22/2021 No Comment

The Black Sea Landing of Victory relay (or the Swim to Victory 2021) was a 221 km relay across the Black Sea in Crimea ending in Sevastopol, dedicated to the 76th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 77th anniversary of the liberation of from Nazi invaders, organized by the Interregional Association for Cold Swimming (Russia) and the International Ice Swimming Association that was completed by four teams of 40 swimmers who came from Russia, Armenia, Belarus and Azerbaijan in May 2021.

555 km Black Sea Victory Relay Lives Up To Its Name
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Steven Munatones 11/14/2020 No Comment

555 km Black Sea Victory Relay Lives Up To Its Name Courtesy of Akimov Vitaly, Novorossiysk-to-Sevastopol, Russia. Akimov Vitaly, Alexandr Brylin, were part of an international team of over 50 swimmers that finished a three-stage 555 km relay that started in Novorossiysk on October 21st and finished on November 7th in the city of Sevastopol in the Black

Ersin Aydin Passes Away, Swam For The Fatherland
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Steven Munatones 06/10/2020 No Comment

Ersin Aydin Passes Away, Swam For The Fatherland Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "I've done it for the Fatherland," said Ersin Aydin, a Turkish swimmer who swam in a shark cage from Mersin in southern Turkey to Kyrenia (Girne) on the north coast of Cyprus in 43 hours 20 minutes in 1973. According to Sports Illustrated in 1973, Ersin ate

Meeting People Along The Shore
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Steven Munatones 01/21/2020 No Comment

Meeting People Along The Shore Courtesy of Lewis Pugh, Arabian Sea. Photos courtesy of Kelvin Trautman. Back in August 1994, Lewis Pugh swam 7 marathon swims to encourage governments to establish Marine Protected Areas. Pugh's campaign was called Seven Swims In The Seven Seas For 1 Reason: * 10 km in the Mediterranean Sea in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 3

A Rich Concept: The Ancient Seven Seas
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Steven Munatones 09/24/2019 No Comment

A Rich Concept: The Ancient Seven Seas Courtesy of David Rich and Lewis Pugh, Olympic Club, San Francisco, California. What started as a one-on-one dinner conversation at the WOWSA Open Water Summit at the Olympic Club in San Francisco last year gradually perculated and formulated its way to a new marathon swimming challenge called The Ancient Seven

Swimming In The Seas
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Steven Munatones 09/19/2019 No Comment

Lewis Pugh of the UK describes his Seven Swims in the Seven Seas for 1 Reason: Mediterranean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, and North Sea highlighting the need to create Marine Protected Areas Nejib Belhedi of Tunisia - who started clean shaven in Sfax, Tunisia - swam 76 hours 30 minutes straight along the coast of Tunisia to Djerba

Swimming With Samsung, Across The Bosphorus
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Steven Munatones 11/07/2016 No Comment

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One day a year, the Istanbul Strait lies quiet. The other 364 days of the year, the world’s most narrow strait used for international navigation is busy with boat traffic and marine vessels of all sizes and shapes. But in the summer, the link between Asia and Europe that connects the Black Sea with the Sea

Ice in His Veins – Albert Sobirov
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Steven Munatones 04/02/2015 No Comment

Courtesy of Mo O'Reilly from Murmansk, Russia. Top photos courtesy of Ella Antibetova of Murmansk; lower photo courtesy of Nuala Moore. Albert Sobirov, the Russian who came in a surprising second to Christof Wandratsch of Germany and upset Henri Kaarma of Estonia at the World Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, is a humble guy from Siberia who swam his

MPA: Marvelously Productive Activity, 7 Swims In 7 Seas
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Steven Munatones 08/30/2014 No Comment

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photos are courtesy of Kelvin Trautman. What he started on August 9th, Lewis Pugh finished yesterday. Lewis Pugh completed his seventh and final leg of his Seven Swims In The Seven Seas For 1 Reason yesterday. After swimming 20 km on three consecutive days in rough conditions in the North Sea, he finished

Marine Life Nowhere To Be Seen
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Steven Munatones 08/30/2014 No Comment

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lewis Pugh does things we never even dream of doing. The Hall of Famer swims in the cold, not only in Cape Town where he resides, but also in frozen fjords and high upon Mount Everest. He does majestic pioneering swims in the North and South Poles and generates global awareness for causes ranging from