Oceans Seven - Body, Mind, Soul Heroes In The Catalina Channel Courtesy of Lucas Rivet, La Fabrica Films and Asociación Argentina Gestión y Desarrollo del Deporte. Matías Ola and his team, including Lucas Rivet, take off from their native Argentina around the world on their Oceans Seven challenge. This is a short documentary film about open water
Marathoning With Masayuki Moriya Courtesy of WOWSA and Ocean Navi, Tsugaru Channel and Sado Channel, Japan. Since 2008, Masayuki Moriya has been training, preparing, planning, escorting, documenting and observing channel swims in the Tsugaru Channel (between Honshu and Hokkaido) and nearby Sado Channel (between Sado Island and the Honshu mainland) in
Renaissance Men In The Contemporary Open Water World Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A Renaissance man is often applied to the gifted people of the Renaissance era (from the 14th to 17th century) who sought to develop their full intellectual, artistic, social and physical capabilities. The term often describes the great thinkers like
Swim Camp Punta Del Este 2019 Courtesy of Arturo Santos, Isla de Lobos, Punta del Este, Uruguay. Arturo Santos and María N. Simmendinger started Swim Uruguay. They created a training camp and open water swim to Isla de Lobos in Punta del Este. Santos is one of the pioneers of this crossing and has crossed a total of 5 times including in both
Body, Mind And Soul Heroes In The Open Water
Courtesy of Lucas Rivet, Catalina Channel, California. Argentine waterman and aquapreneur Lucas Rivet of Asociación Argentina Gestión y Desarrollo del Deporte, is documenting the Oceans Seven journey of Argentine swimmer Matías Ola and his support team. Ola's August 2018 crossing of the 32.3 km
Matías Ola Looks Forward After Tough Tsugaru Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. Matías Ola went for it again. The Argentine swimmer attempted a crossing of the 19.5 km Tsugaru Channel for the second time on July 28th. After a start at 2:47 am from Kodomari, Aomori on the island of Honshu, he swam for 12 hours 55 minutes,
Matías Ola And Lucas Rivet Are Not Sitting Still Courtesy of Matías Ola, Swim Argentina. If there is anyone in the open water swimming world who is not sitting still, it is Matías Ola of Swim Argentina. From ice swimming to marathon swimming, Ola is generating media attention, inspiring swimmers and supporting all kinds of open water swimming initiatives
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matías Ola organized another winter swimming event in his native Argentina. This time in early December called the Winter Swimming Ski Portillo Chile, a high-altitude swim of 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) in altitude in the Andes Mountains. For more information, visit www.swimargentina.org. For more photos,
Photos courtesy of Nicolene Steynberg, Dead Sea between Jordan and Israel. It is not often that a swimmer completes two historic, unprecedented swims that require international diplomacy within one calendar year. But Jackie Cobell is just not any swimmer. She is unique. She is at the top of her game. She has a personality and charisma that is
Courtesy of Matías Ola, Swim Argentina. For information on winter swimming events, extreme swims, and marathon swimming expeditions organized by Matías Ola with Swim Argentina, contact him in Buenos Aires at [email protected] The various Swim Argentina's events throughout Ola's native country include: *Swimming Across Río de la Plata from
