Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Halestorm is a 6-person relay that swam an unorthodox 33.5-mile course from Long Point on Santa Catalina Island to Laguna Beach on the Southern California mainland in 19 hours 44 minutes. In order of appearance, the team members who crossed the Gulf of Santa Catalina included Brett Rose, Tom Hale, Roddy
Courtesy of Rich Gorman, Laguna Beach, California, home of the Oak Streeters. Patsee Ober commented on a swim this week off of Shaws buoy in Laguna Beach, "We saw 2 orcas. They surfaced twice from about 50 and 25 yards then disappeared into Shaws chasm of blue water never to be seen again by us. [It was] an amazing experience and a sight I will always
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A Speedo streaker is an individual - male or female - who walks or runs nonchalantly through public areas dressed solely in swim briefs or jammers (for men) or a swimsuit that does not extend past the groin or shoulders (for women). These public areas are typically not traversed by individuals in swimming
Featuring ocean swimmer and marine artist Patsee Ober of Laguna Beach, California.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today's Nadadores 2.4-mile Rough Water Swim will be held in Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point along the Southern Californian coastline. One of the event sponsors is a local ocean swimmer who knows the coastline and race course extraordinarily well. Through her Ober Reef Photography, Patsee Ober has been
Up and down the coasts from Brighton to Busselton and many places between, piers dot the coastline of hundreds of countries. But there may be no other place on Earth that melds the sport of open water swimming and piers as well as California. From San Diego in the south to Santa Cruz in the north, the 770 miles (1,240 km) of coastline is punctuated with
A masterfeedermixer is a coach, support crew member, parent, friend or volunteer who is responsible for preparing, mixing and feeding a marathon swimmer or channel swimmer on an escorted swim. The masterfeedermixer lays out everything before and during the swim and understands what kinds of foods and hydration the swimmer wants in precise detail, in terms
