Steven Munatones, Author at WOWSA

About Steven Munatones

Creator of the WOWSA Awards, World Open Water Swimming Association, the Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Oceans Seven, Open Water Summit, Openwaterpedia, KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, recipient of the Poseidon Award and Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and a member of the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame, and former FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee member, Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff.

Open Pools For Regulated Lap Swimming In California

Open Pools For Regulated Lap Swimming In California

Open Pools For Regulated Lap Swimming In California Courtesy of Maddie Blackwell, Change.org. In the most populous state in America, 14-year-old Maddie Blackwell of Orinda Aquatics in Moraga, California started an online petition to submit [...]

Freda Streeter, The Channel General, Recalls Her Career On WOWSA Live

Freda Streeter, The Channel General, Recalls Her Career On WOWSA Live

Freda Streeter, The Channel General, Recalls Her Career On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Freda Streeter, MBE is one of the icons of the English Channel community, known for inspiring and [...]

Marcos Díaz Making Dominican Republican Proud Around Manhattan Island

Marcos Díaz Making Dominican Republican Proud Around Manhattan Island

Marcos Díaz Making Dominican Republican Proud Around Manhattan Island Courtesy of Marvin Flores & Tomasito Bobadilla for BFM Movimiento, Manhattan Island, New York City. Marcos Díaz recalled his career in yesterday's WOWSA Live interview. The [...]

Marcos Díaz Talks About Representing The Dominican Republic On WOWSA Live

Marcos Díaz Talks About Representing The Dominican Republic On WOWSA Live

Marcos Díaz Talks About Representing The Dominican Republic On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Marcos Díaz, the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year and an Honor Swimmer in [...]

Swimming Slowly Successfully

Swimming Slowly Successfully

Swimming Slowly Successfully Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Question of the Day: I am very interested in long distance swimming, but I swim slowly. Is swimming marathons or across the English Channel possible? Answer: [...]

Boris Nowalski Takes To The Sea In Order To Help Save It

Boris Nowalski Takes To The Sea In Order To Help Save It

Boris Nowalski Takes To The Sea In Order To Help Save It Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As the saying goes, "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a [...]

Kings And Queens Of The Hawaiian Island Channels

Kings And Queens Of The Hawaiian Island Channels

Kings And Queens Of The Hawaiian Island Channels Courtesy of Dr. Steven Minaglia, Nā Kai ‘Ewalu, Hawaii. Dr. Steven Minaglia is a channel swimmer who lives on Oahu in Hawaii. The Female Pelvic Medicine and [...]

Swim Alternatives To Cross Kealaikahiki Channel and Alalakeiki Channel In Hawaii

Swim Alternatives To Cross Kealaikahiki Channel and Alalakeiki Channel In Hawaii

Swim Alternatives To Cross Kealaikahiki Channel and Alalakeiki Channel In Hawaii Courtesy of Dr. Steven Minaglia, Oahu, Hawaii. The Kealaikahiki Channel in Hawaii between the islands of Kahoolawe and Lanai has been crossed by Quinn [...]

RIO…A Great Film, A Must See

RIO…A Great Film, A Must See

RIO...A Great Film, A Must See Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. RIO is a documentary film about 60-year-old Anthony McCarley's completion of the 36 km Travessia do Leme ao Pontal from Leme Beach to [...]

Mark Whitt Was Always At Their Side, Escorting Many

Mark Whitt Was Always At Their Side, Escorting Many

Mark Whitt Was Always At Their Side, Escorting Many Courtesy of Charlotte Brynn, Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame. It is a well-established fact that volunteering enhances an individual’s overall sense of purpose and [...]

Ross Youngman Lives Up To His Name, Sets Derwent River Big Swim Record

Ross Youngman Lives Up To His Name, Sets Derwent River Big Swim Record

Ross Youngman Lives Up To His Name, Sets Derwent River Big Swim Record Courtesy of Christopher Guesdon, Derwent River, Tasmania, Australia. The 34 km Derwent River Big Swim is one of The Toughest 13 swims [...]

Nachts Allein Im Ozean, Mein Weg durch die Ocean’s Seven

Nachts Allein Im Ozean, Mein Weg durch die Ocean’s Seven

Nachts Allein Im Ozean, Mein Weg durch die Ocean's Seven Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. André Wiersig became the first Oceans Seven swimmer from Germany in 2019. He completed the Oceans Seven after a [...]

Diary Of A Double With Antonio Argüelles – Week 17

Diary Of A Double With Antonio Argüelles – Week 17

Diary Of A Double With Antonio Argüelles - Week 17 Sponsored by KAATSU Global and WOWSA Live. Diary of a Double documents the year-long journey of Antonio Argüelles who will attempt a 67 km two-way [...]

When Canadians Dominated Atlantic City

When Canadians Dominated Atlantic City

When Canadians Dominated Atlantic City Sponsored by WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The inaugural 41.8 km Atlantic City Centennial Swim was held on July 26th 1954. The race, now called the 36 km Atlantic City Around [...]

How Far Is The English Channel?

How Far Is The English Channel?

How Far Is The English Channel? Courtesy of Michael Oram of Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation, English Channel. The courses taken and distances swum by the two slowest swimmers across the English Channel (Jackie Cobell [...]

Shannon House Keegan Shares Marathon Swims Stories

Shannon House Keegan Shares Marathon Swims Stories

Shannon House Keegan Shares Marathon Swims Stories Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Shannon House Keegan from Talent, Oregon was not always comfortable in the open water. She faced the fears that many pool swimmers [...]

Bruce Wigo, Renaissance Aquatics Man, Inducted In USA Water Polo Hall Of Fame

Bruce Wigo, Renaissance Aquatics Man, Inducted In USA Water Polo Hall Of Fame

Bruce Wigo, Renaissance Aquatics Man, Inducted In USA Water Polo Hall Of Fame Bruce Wigo is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Swimming Hall of Fame since 2005. He is currently [...]

Cruising In Kotlin

Cruising In Kotlin

Cruising In Kotlin Courtesy of Timur Falomkin, Gulf of Finland. In October 2019, Timur Falomkin, Roman Karkachev, Andrey Zamyslov, and Anton Kutuev completed a 4-person 25 km relay across the Gulf of Finland from Yelagin [...]

Swimming In The Sea Of Galilee

Swimming In The Sea Of Galilee

Swimming In The Sea Of Galilee Courtesy of Guy Cohen and Eyal Schachner, Galilee Marathon Swimming Association, Sea of Galilee, Israel. Guy Cohen, Eyal Schachner, and their colleagues including Avishag Turek, Alon Korek, Yaron Davidi, [...]

When Luiz Arapiraca Won The Travessia dos Fortes In 2010

When Luiz Arapiraca Won The Travessia dos Fortes In 2010

When Luiz Arapiraca Won The Travessia dos Fortes In 2010 Courtesy of TV Globo, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Luiz Rogério Arapiraca beat defending champion Allan do Carmo and his national teammate Samuel de [...]

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