Kosatka DV Is 2020 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year
Kosatka DV, led by Oleg Dokuchaev, was announced by World Open Water Swimming Association as its 2020 World Open Water Offering of the Year in the annual WOWSA Awards
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Kosatka DV, Swimming With The Orcas
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
The Unprecedented 50 km Crossing Of Lake Baikal
The Unprecedented 50 km Crossing Of Lake Baikal Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Dingle, Ireland. Five swimmers completed an unprecedented crossing of Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world. It was the first bioprene relay to cross Lake Baikal, a 50 km effort completed in 16 hours 11 minutes. Oleg Dokuchaev, the chief of the Olympic committee of Primorsky
Conference On Human Body Adaptations To Ice Swimming
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In Krasnoyarsk, Russia, concurrent to the International Ice Swimming Association's Russian 1000m Championships, the First Conference on the Scientific Understanding of the Human Body and Its Adaptations to Ice and Winter Swimming was held. "What we have achieved in the ice is subject to so much
Michael Ventre Training From Lanzarote To Siberia
Courtesy of Michael Ventre, New York to London Swim. Michael Ventre is traveling the world in order to swim across the Atlantic Ocean in a charity swim for Oxfam. Ventre, the most accomplished marathon swimmer from Botswana, has another year to go for fundraising and training for his New York to London Swim, but he just returned to the UK s training is
Racing In The Dark And Ice
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. During the relays performed at 0ºC temperatures at the 2015 Tyumen Open Water Swimming Cup in Siberia, Russia last week, the relays were conducted in the dark. Nuala Moore of Ireland recalls, "The relays were amazing to watch in the ice. The Russians from the Novosibirsk Team in Eastern Russia were so
So Cool And So Bright, Jack
Ice swimmer Jack Bright set out on a goal and achieved it this past week in Siberia. The filmmaker of Winter Swimming and a member of the Bering Strait Swim completed his personal goal of swimming 1000m in Tyumen in what he calls an ice hole in water that neared 0ºC. "It is always a good feeling when you reach a goal. It was a great event at Tyumen [with]
Swimming In Siberia, Russian Winter Swimming Champs
Mirroring the upward trajectory of open water swimming in general, the discipline of ice swimming is also exploding around the world. Instead of concrete around a pool or a tropical coastline along an open water course, hardened extreme swimmers are encased in the white outlines of a frozen lake, the frigid boundaries of a river bank or the iced seashore of
Exploring Extremes, Swimming In Siberia
Ram Barkai, Ryan Stramrood and Kieron Palframan will be heading to Siberia in mid-winter for a swim in a frozen river. Without their fellow International Ice Swimming Association co-founders Toks Viviers and Andrew Chin, the 3 South Africans are heading to a town called Tyumen to join many other swimmers coming from around the world to an extreme ice swim.