When Left Is Right In The Open Water
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In most open water swimming events around the world, directional turns are indicated by turn buoys (or cans). But sometimes, some swims are occasionally different.
The Bermuda Round the Sound Swim is a charity swim that offers 0.8 km, 2 km, 4 km, 7.25 km and 10 km swims where swimmers traverse around the course in Hamilton Sound and where more than $300,000 has been raised cumulatively.
Photo of the directional arrow from the 2009 event is courtesy of CIBBOWS member Patricia Sener.
Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Daily News of Open Water Swimming and founder of WOWSA. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010).
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