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"Whether you are planning on racing in an ocean, lake, river, canal, bay, dam, or reservoir, Open Water Swimming is your best guide to success. Steven Munatones wrote the perfect book for athletes of all levels who want to compete in the open waters of the world."
Brent Rutemiller, Publisher of Swimming World Magazine
Brent Rutemiller, Publisher of Swimming World Magazine
The World's First & Only Open Water Swimming Magazine
Simon Griffiths, Publisher and Editor of H2Open Magazine talks about the world's first and only magazine devoted to open water swimming. "H2Open Magazine is a new publication for anyone who loves open water swimming
whether you are a beginner or an experienced veteran, taking on a
long-distance challenge, doing your first mass participation race or
simply looking for a beautiful place to take a dip. Our writers include Kate Rew, founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society (shown above), Simon Murie, founder of Swim Trek, Dan Bullock, founder and head coach at Swim for Tri, Paul Newsome, founder of Swim Smooth,
and Rick Kiddle, ex-international triathlete and coach to model Jodie
Kidd. We also have a panel of experts to answer swimming-related
questions including Steven Munatones, and Colin Hill, organizer of the British Gas Great Swim Series."
Books include Dangerous When Wet, co-authored by Shelley Taylor-Smith and Ian Cockerill.
Read about the inside scoop from a 7-time world professional marathon swimming champion and the untold story of great open water swimmers. Purchase here.
Despite being tagged with “no natural ability”, “nothing above average” and ‘disabled”, read about Shelley's rise to success. Learn how to absolutely love the solitary nature of the sport and develop the 'man-against-nature' mindset which is the key element to becoming a successful open water swimmer.
Read about the inside scoop from a 7-time world professional marathon swimming champion and the untold story of great open water swimmers. Purchase here.
Despite being tagged with “no natural ability”, “nothing above average” and ‘disabled”, read about Shelley's rise to success. Learn how to absolutely love the solitary nature of the sport and develop the 'man-against-nature' mindset which is the key element to becoming a successful open water swimmer.
At a little after midnight on July 15, 2007, Lewis Gordon Pugh stood on the edge of the sea ice at the North Pole. It was the fifteenth anniversary of his father’s death and he was wearing just a Speedo swimsuit, the old-fashioned one that barely covers all that needs to be covered. Air temperature at the North Pole that night was below zero, the water into which he was about to swim 1 kilometer in minus 1.7°C water across the North Pole. The thought did cross his mind that he might die.
What scared him was the depth of the water, he would sink over four kilometres before reaching the bottom. Drowning was a possibility because hypothermia creeps up on the cold-water swimmer, pressing on his respiratory channels, denying muscles oxygen, until there is no power to fight, limbs go limp, swimmer disappears. Pugh would do the swim without harness or rope and if it went wrong, his body would not be recovered.
Achieving The Impossible is a great read.
What scared him was the depth of the water, he would sink over four kilometres before reaching the bottom. Drowning was a possibility because hypothermia creeps up on the cold-water swimmer, pressing on his respiratory channels, denying muscles oxygen, until there is no power to fight, limbs go limp, swimmer disappears. Pugh would do the swim without harness or rope and if it went wrong, his body would not be recovered.
Achieving The Impossible is a great read.
Ingrid Loos Miller - Fearless Swimming For Triathletes
Ingrid Loos Miller takes a very real and difficult subject - the fear of the open water - and
clearly and colorfully describes the obstacles facing anyone who ventures beyond
the shore lines.
From body surfing into the transition area to dealing with one's fear of of sharks, her book is comprehensive and educational.Writing for an audience of triathletes and newcomers to the endurance sports world, Ingrid's compassionate approach makes practical sense for everyone who worries about sharks, waves, cold water, rough water, navigation and the confusion of large mass participation triathlons. The book is an easy-to-understand road map to transform swimmers from fearful to fearless. Her latest book will help transform a number of triathletes and newcomes to become passionate open water enthusiasts.
From body surfing into the transition area to dealing with one's fear of of sharks, her book is comprehensive and educational.Writing for an audience of triathletes and newcomers to the endurance sports world, Ingrid's compassionate approach makes practical sense for everyone who worries about sharks, waves, cold water, rough water, navigation and the confusion of large mass participation triathlons. The book is an easy-to-understand road map to transform swimmers from fearful to fearless. Her latest book will help transform a number of triathletes and newcomes to become passionate open water enthusiasts.
A New Science-Fiction Thriller
The vastly and eclectically talented Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer
wrote a fictional science-fiction novel where the main character is an open water
swimmer.
"The first scene in the sci-fi lite adventure novel introduces an open water swimmer with his fiancée. The book is not about swimming, but the main characters happen to all be swimmers."
"The first scene in the sci-fi lite adventure novel introduces an open water swimmer with his fiancée. The book is not about swimming, but the main characters happen to all be swimmers."
Tactics and Techniques of Elite Open Water Swimmers
A ground-breaking DVD with insights and perspectives of world-class open water swimming that can help athletes improve their own open water swimming performance. Open water swimming techniques, strategies and tactics are explained and shown in a DVD that captures the essence of the sport.
Specialty Swimming In San Francisco
The book was written for those who enjoy the wonderful feeling of success that comes from completion of the great, difficult and classic swimming challenge of swimming from Alcatraz Island to the shoreline of San Francisco."Alcatraz swims have been our obsession for many years," writes the co-authors. "Read on and devour what we have prepared. We have seen too
many unqualified swimmers trying unsuccessfully to swim from Alcatraz.
In that time our Alcatraz Safety Crew has had to rescue well over 1,000
swimmers, many of whom should never have been out there foolishly
endangering themselves and those around them. Bravado has its place,
but not at Alcatraz."
Over the past three decades Joe, a Fellow of the British Royal Geographical Society, has guided more than 30,000 swimmers from Alcatraz. Gary has swum in the Amazon, Peru's Lake Titicaca, Scotland's Loch Ness, Fiji and the Rottnest Channel Swim as well as done English Channel, Catalina Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and Swim Around Key West relays. He is also swum 751 times to or from Alcatraz and writes from Inside Triathlon and USA Triathlon Life magazines.
Over the past three decades Joe, a Fellow of the British Royal Geographical Society, has guided more than 30,000 swimmers from Alcatraz. Gary has swum in the Amazon, Peru's Lake Titicaca, Scotland's Loch Ness, Fiji and the Rottnest Channel Swim as well as done English Channel, Catalina Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and Swim Around Key West relays. He is also swum 751 times to or from Alcatraz and writes from Inside Triathlon and USA Triathlon Life magazines.
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