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Heads Up: What Lurks Around Yonaguni Island

Heads Up: What Lurks Around Yonaguni Island

Heads Up: What Lurks Around Yonaguni Island Courtesy of WOWSA, Yonaguni Island, Okinawa, Japan. In October 1994, Steven Munatones attempted and completed a solo 29 km circumnavigation of Yonaguni Island, the westernmost part of Japan [...]

Cameron Bellamy Gets Lucky On Friday The 13th

Cameron Bellamy Gets Lucky On Friday The 13th

Cameron Bellamy Gets Lucky On Friday The 13th Courtesy of Ubunye Challenge, Barbados, Caribbean Sea. Today, Friday the 13th, Cameron Bellamy started in his 150 km attempt to swim non-stop from Barbados to St. Lucia. [...]

Charlotte Brynn Anything But Aglifft

Charlotte Brynn Anything But Aglifft Courtesy of Grandiloquent Word of the Day. Aglifft is an English term meaning to be frightened or alarmed, or to be startled. Its usage can include a sentence like, "The [...]

Blood In The Water

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When blood and the ocean, that is when most swimmers want to get out of the open water. Fearful of a shark frenzy or at the least a shark [...]

Ocean Adventurers Weigh Risks And Rewards, Part 1

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The media is writing articles about world surfing champion Mick Fanning returning to Jeffreys Bay in South Africa where he was attacked by a shark last year [see New [...]

Police, Lifeguard, Medical Codes Used In The Open Water

Police, Lifeguard, Medical Codes Used In The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yesterday in San Diego, a group of high school students from Riverside, California were rescued by local lifeguards off the [...]

When Injuries Happen In The Open Water

When Injuries Happen In The Open Water Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After Mike Spalding was bitten by a shark on his channel swim in Hawaii, he was immediately treated in a hospital after [...]

Elephant Shark

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Judy Labrona posted these photos above on her Facebook page and sent the photos to Bill's Channel and Bill's Channel Facebook page. Labrona supposedly took the pictures while in [...]

Shark Encounter Response In JBay, South Africa

Video of the shark encounter courtesy of World Surf League at Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. It was unbelievably heroic to see pro surfer Julian Wilson paddling over and try to save fellow competitor Mick Fanning [...]

Things You Shouldn’t Say To An Open Water Swimmer

Things You Shouldn't Say To An Open Water Swimmer Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are lots of things that open water swimmers know, both instinctively and learned over time. How best to breathe [...]