The 2020 WOWSA Awards kicked off with the announcement of 22 nominees in the World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year category
Sioban Lowe Transitions From The Pool To The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sioban Lowe from West Kerry, Ireland, started her open water swimming journey during the 2020 lockdown of COVID 19. "For the last five years, I have been using the Skellig Hotel warm pool for my water therapy sessions and swimming. Due to the COVID
Nuala Shares Moore About Cold Water Swimming Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Dingle, Ireland. "The first time that I saw Nuala Moore finish an Ice Kilometer in a falling snow after she had completed 40 laps in the 25m pool carved out of a frozen lake in Burghausen, Germany, I knew she was one of the world's most well-adapted cold water swimmers," remembered
Swimming Cape Horn - Nuala Moore On Her Extreme Adventure Courtesy of Nuala Moore. Nuala Moore of Ireland is hosting a presentation via Zoom on her Journey to Cape Horn on Tuesday at 7:00 pm GMT. The link is here. Cape Horn is an island south of the southern tip of Chile, reaching into the Drake Passage. In April 2018, Moore went south of Cape Horn and
Looking Forward For Pablo Fernández Álvarez And Nuala Moore Courtesy of WOWSA, Mount Everest, Nepal. Like the postponed and cancelled open water swimming events from Tokyo to Florida due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pablo Fernández Álvarez and Nuala Moore [shown above] had to put their swimming goals temporarily on hold. As Fernández says from Spain,
Travesía Interminable Is World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Courtesy of WOWSA, Mexico City. Travesía Interminable is a book that was written by Antonio Argüelles and Adam Skolnick that covers Argüelles' life and experiences as he achieved the Oceans Seven. The book is selling well in Mexico, Latin America and Spain and will be translated and
2019 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Nominees Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The WOWSA Awards are an annual selection of outstanding individuals and offerings in the following categories: * World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year * World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year * World Open Water Swimming Performance of
A Passion For The Ice By Dr. Nataliya Fatyanova Courtesy of Nuala Moore. To date, 483 swimmers from 38 countries have completed 330 Ice Miles - and hundreds more have competed in Ice Kilometers in many ice swimming events around the world. With an increasing number of ice swimmers doing increasingly colder and more extreme efforts around the world, the
Insights Into Ice Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Colder water temperatures are coming. Time to curl up with a nice good read in a warm room...like Nuala Moore's 2016 manual - Insight Into The World Of Ice Swimming. Her book is based on her experiences in doing ice swimming (i.e., swimming for distance in water under 5°C)
Why Swimmers Drown, Presented By John Connolly & Nuala Moore Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Waterford City, Ireland. Nuala Moore and John Connolly presented at The International Drowning Prevention Research Seminar with The Lifesaving Foundation on Why Swimmers Drown on June 15th at the Waterford Institute of Technology. John Connolly gave an overview of
