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by Ashlynne’s mother This little girl is my daughter, Ashlynne, and she has been my running buddy since age 3. She ran her first 5k a week or two after she turned 4, and has run several since. A few weeks before her 5th birthday we ran another 5k. She […]

Ashlynne: Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

April 17, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest by Aqua Master Editor

by Gary Emich* Fall 2004 — A Quarterly Publication of the South End Rowing Club It is NOT my fault! It’s one of those dreary drizzly December nights & I’m lying in bed reading before “lights out” when I come across the following excerpt from Outside Magazine: “The goal had […]

4 in 1 – the Enchainment

April 17, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water by Aqua Master Editor

Marcie Adelman standing on a busy street in Taipei — Marcie Adelman, 55 Stafford Hills Club Hello, Nǐhǎo,你好, I am writing this from my new home away from home in Taipei, Taiwan. I arrived in Taiwan on January 18th, with my husband Dave, who will be working here for the next four years. It has been an interesting experience to […]

Swimmer Spotlight – Marcie Adelman

March 22, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Biography / Featured / Human Interest / Spotlight by Karen Andrus-Hughes

Little Brewster Island Lighthouse — We all know that the oldest and most famous marathon run in the USA is the Boston Marathon. The 26 mile-365-yard race starts in the small town of Hopkinton and finishes in downtown Boston. It has been contested annually on Patriots Day since April, 1897. Every year thousands of men […]

The Boston Light Swim

March 22, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water by Joe Oakes

Elmer Burton Humphrey — by Elmer Humphry Editor’s Note: When I talked with Elmer at Costco he said he wanted to send me some material on the Green Dragons, and asked for my address. I wrote it on a product wrapper in his shopping cart. A letter arrived a few days later telling more […]

More “Green Dragons”

March 22, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Memories / Special by Aqua Master Editor

I have suffered from asthma since the 5th grade. Now, at 50 years of age, I reflect on everything I endured with asthma: tubes placed in my ears as a kid, missing a semester in my freshman year due to pneumonia, bronchitis, and ear infections, and I had been continually […]

Karla: My Asthma Journey

February 18, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Health / Human Interest / Special by Aqua Master Editor

Celilo Park, Cascade Locks, OR — There must be hundreds of quiet places where we can swim along the lower Columbia River, both in Oregon and in Washington. But finding the right place for you can be a problem. Fortunately, our friends at Columbia Riverkeeper have done some of the homework for us. You will find […]

Columbia River Swim Spots

February 18, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Open Water by Joe Oakes

An underwater demolition team of the U.S. Navy pulling a rubber boat ashore atWŏnsan, North Korea, during a mis- sion to clear a minefield, October 1950. --U.S. Navy — While at Costco recently, I saw a man sitting on a chair, just waiting. The cap he was wearing said, “World War II Veteran: 1941-1945”. There are not many veterans of WWII alive anymore, so I stopped to chat with him about his experiences in the War. His name is […]

Non-SCUBA divers in World War II

February 18, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Special by Alice Zabudsky

Thank You

Thank Yous – March 2021

February 18, 2021 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Special by Aqua Master Editor