Ned Denison and Ger Kennedy - and their colleagues - train year-round in cold-water temperatures and, often, in rough water conditions. Swimming in the open water in Ireland direct results in the Irish swimmers becoming some of the most hardened and best acclimatized individuals in the world to cold water and rough conditions. Southern California is
Open water swimmers have all kinds of tattoos
CPT medical codes are used to describe procedures and services medical professionals perform on sick or injured individuals - including injuries that occur in the open water with sharks, dolphins, jellyfish and orcas.
Ger Kennedy organized the Antarctica 2020 International Swim and had to delay the Zero Ice Miles of Cath Pendleton and Paul Georgescu because a pod of orcas got close
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kosatka means orca or toothed whales in the Russian language. A winter swimming center and club called Kosatka DV in Vladivostok was founded by Oleg Duchuchaev. DV or Dalniy Vostok means Far East that includes East Siberia, Yakutia, and the Pacific Coast. Kosatka DV organizes and trains people for
Courtesy of Germán Vaché. Arturo Santos and Ignacio Bussy are both 41-year-old open water swimmers from Argentina. In March 2014, Santos and Bussy completed a 9 km triple crossing between Gorriti Island and Punta del Este in Uruguay. A year later in March 2015, the duo pioneered another 9.5 km crossing from Punta de la Salina to Isla de Lobos in 3 hours
The perfect open water swimming venue, if it ever existed, would have the following elements: 1. A beautiful sunset every evening. 2. A gorgeous sunrise every morning. 3. An occasional lightning storm that lights up the sky. 4. Cloudless full moons for night swimming. 5. A wide expanse of silky smooth white sand. 6. Cold water coming in on low tides (so you
Back in 2007, Claudia Rose did her first ocean swim in Alaska, the 8.2-mile (13.2 km) Pennock Island Challenge. "This experience piqued my interest in swimming in cold, unfamiliar locales. I began researching other, bigger swims in Alaska." The founder and president of an enterprise architecture and systems engineering firm, the engineer got to figuring
Similar to humans who prefer fish or meat, orcas can have their own particular food preferences. In the Atlantic Ocean, some researchers have suggested that the separate preferences for fish and meat among orcas also lead to other changes and preferences. Some suggest that the orcas separated into distinct species because of their diet: fish-eaters mate
The stage was set for one of the more pleasant swims during the Port Nelson Summer Sea Swim Series in New Zealand back in the summer of 2011. The Port Nelson Summer Sea Swim Series is a summer season long group of community swims held on Thursday nights with a history that goes back 25 years. On that one particular Thursday, it was a warm evening with
