Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Water temperatures rose from 28°C to over 31°C as the pace simultaneously increased at the Rio Negro Challenge Amazonia. The pros just kept on going faster and faster in the largest left tributary of the Amazon River. Gabriela Ferreira of Brazil swam with dolphins, eventually pulling ahead of Esther
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. She has swum throughout the world, but never deep inside the Amazon region. But SBR Sports swimmer Lexie Kelly from Newport Beach, California is having the time of her life in the 30 km Rio Negro Challenge Amazonia, swimming with fresh water dolphins and meeting the people of the Rio Negro region. The
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With all kinds, types and speeds, many open water swimmers will be gathering this weekend in the Rio Negro, the largest left tributary of the Amazon River and the largest blackwater river in the world for a trio of open water swims. The Rio Negro is one of the world's ten largest rivers in average discharge
