Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Lake District has long attracted swimmers from around the world to its water, some attempting cross-lake swims. But as the decades has passed, two new phenomena have emerged. Firstly, tens of thousands of people who have started to participate in the mile lake swims. The swimmers are individuals of
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The World Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, Russia was honored as the 2015 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year. Murmansk is the largest city inside the Arctic Circle where the city administration cut open a 25m pool in Lapland Lake Semenovskoye. With the air temperature around Lake
SOS, Rescues And Saves In Ice Swimming Competitions Photos courtesy of Nuala Moore, above the Arctic Circle in Murmansk, Russia. "Ram Barkai made the World Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk possible," said American ice swimmer Mo O'Reilly. "It has been incredible journey. We are still swimming and the team keeps getting larger and more
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ram Barkai spoke about the First Ice Swimming World Championships that will be held in Murmansk, Russia in March 2015 as well as his newly structured International Ice Swimming Association at the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Isle of Bute, Scotland. “We are still learning a lot about ice
