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Bob Bruce — Here is a one-page summary of suggestions, suitable for framing, from some of your OMS swim pals—Tim Waud, Cindy Werhane, Marlys Cappaert, Marisa Frieder, Todd Lantry and myself—helping you to swim safely in open water this summer. Consider this to be your “pre-swim safety briefing” from Bob this year! Some […]

Long Distance Swimming – September 2020

August 24, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Coaching / Human Interest / Open Water / Open Water by Bob Bruce

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Here’s a question for you: Why should a swimmer give a hoot about ocean tides? Well, if you ever want to swim at any of the hundreds of great spots along the Washington, Oregon or California coasts, it might be worth a few minutes of your time to know about […]

Ocean Tides and Currents

August 24, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Open Water by Joe Oakes

I am aware of three intercontinental swims that can truly be called “Intercontinental.” The first is the Dardanelles in Turkey, from the European side to the Asian side, not very far from Istanbul. It is not a very long swim, but it is difficult for two reasons. First, there is […]

Intercontinental Swims

July 17, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Open Water by Joe Oakes

Jim Teisher — by Jim Teisher On Monday, June 22, I went swimming at Clackamas Cove, as I had done several times before. Since I was swimming alone, I usually try to find someone to pair up with for a swim, but there weren’t any other swimmers that day, so I swam back […]

My Swimming Event

July 17, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Open Water / Special by Aqua Master Editor

Squaw Lake — Some swimmers are now enjoying the lakes, which are starting to warm up — if you call 60° – 66° warm! Below are places where others are swimming. Come join them! Several people, with Matt Miller, swim at Emigrant Lake. They swim Mon-Wed-Fri starting at 7 am at Songer Wayside. […]

Swimmers are Heading for Open Water

June 12, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Human Interest / Long Distance / Open Water / Open Water / Open Water / Training by Aqua Master Editor

Box jellyfish — In October, 2014, Chloë McCardel, an Australian, set an Open Water World Record for the Longest Unassisted# Swim under Marathon Swimmers Federation international rules+. She endured 12 jelly fish stings from a box jellyfish* just 12 hours into her swim through the Bahamas. Wearing only a regulation swim suit, a […]

Longest Unassisted Open Water Swim

January 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Motivation / Open Water / Special by Aqua Master Editor

Here is Joe on the ladder when the concrete wall ended — Our ship had sailed into Oslo, Norway last summer. I had the opportunity to visit a couple of museums that I have long wanted to see. One was the Thor Hyerdahl museum, with the Kon Tiki. The other museum had three excavated Viking ships, along with tons of artifacts. It […]

My Norway Swim

January 18, 2020 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Human Interest / Memories / Open Water by Joe Oakes

Jayette Pettit, of Vancouver, Wash., emerges from the water Saturday taking first place in the 3,000-meter-swim ahead of Pat Allender of Corvallis. — Zach Silva; The Umpqua Post Aug 17, 2019 A successful open water swimming event in Oregon is: “Water quality, good; water temperature, great; surroundings and people, great. It’s really about people,” said Oregon Masters Swimming Long Distance chairman Bob Bruce on Saturday morning at Eel Lake. “It’s a great day […]

Open water swimmers take to Eel Lake

September 17, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Human Interest / Long Distance / Meet Summary / Open Water / Open Water by Aqua Master Editor

Solo swimmer Brad Robinson at the race fi nish — This year’s Portland Bridge Swim took place on Sunday, July 7. We were proud to host the USMS National Championships for the second year, welcoming 81 solo swimmers and 19 relay teams from 17 states. Of those, 33 solo swimmers and another 16 relay swimmers were Oregon Masters swimmers. We […]

2019 Portland Bridge Swim

July 18, 2019 in Aqua Master Online / Long Distance / Meet Summary / Open Water / Open Water by Marisa Frieder