Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya, Ocean Navi, Japan. In his younger days, Toshio Tominaga (富永俊夫 in Japanese) played water polo and swam in school. He was competitive, but then he began his professional career at a Japanese electronics corporation. As the intervening decades passed, Tominaga stayed in good shape, but he had to dramatically reduce the number
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Beginning in A.D. 722, Sado Island served a prison island as it lies 40 km away from the Japanese west coast in the Sea of Japan. Significantly further from the mainland that Alcatraz or Robben Island, the 40 km was an effective lifelong sentence of banishment on the island with thick, lush forests and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Front page news in Japan described the nearly always turbulent Tsugaru Channel, its successes and failures during the 2015 season, its history, and how solo attempts and relay teams are coordinated by Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi. Photo includes the Ocean Navi team of Atusko Tamaru, Sakae Morikawa, Kiyoko
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With his tough crossing of the 19.5 km Tsugaru Channel, Guy Moar of Australia joined some of the top swimmers in the world* who have completed the most Oceans Seven channels. His Tsugaru Channel crossing from Honshu to Hokkaido in northern Japan took him 11 hours 32 minutes of constant effort. "Guy was
Courtesy of Ocean Navi, Dogashima, Japan. Masayuki Moriya conducted an open water swimming clinic in Dogashima, Japan where the participants enjoyed cave swimming along the coast. Dogashima (堂ヶ島) is located along the western coast of Izu Peninsula (西伊豆) on Honshu in Japan where Ocean Navi conducts swimming expeditions along the dramatic stone formations
Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya, Huntington Beach, California. Yakushima Open Water Swim (屋久島オープンウォータースイミング）was held in heavy rain, but the precipitation did not damper the annual 1 km and 2.5 km ocean swim off the southern island of Kyushu, Japan. Yakushima is a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization designated World Heritage Centre
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A 17-member Ocean Navi relay team took a bit longer than planned, but they finally struggled to swim across the 43 km course in the Sado Channel on the western coast of Japan. "It took us 16 hours 18 minutes against an increasingly strong wind and unexpectedly strong currents," reported Masayuki Moriya.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A 17-member relay of Japanese swimmers is managing its way across the 43 km course in the Sado Channel on the western coast of Japan. "After 6 hours 30 minutes, the team has finally reached the 17 km point against an increasingly strong wind and unexpectedly strong currents," reports one of the swimmers
"A First For The Tsugaru Channel. All-female Team Is A Success" video courtesy of Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi on the Tsugaru Channel in Japan. The relay including Asano-san, Abe-san, Inoue-san, Kataoka-san, and Takahashi-san became the first all-female team to finish the Honshu-to-Hokkaido crossing. On August 21st, they crossed in 13 hours 44 minutes.
Video courtesy of Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi. Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi organizes all kinds of swims and ocean expeditions around Japan and the western Pacific Ocean. Some are competitions, some are solo channel swims, some are relays, some are sea expeditions. One of his recent sea expeditions was to Dogashima (西伊豆堂ヶ島) along the western coast of
