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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA OPEN WATER SWIMMING ASSOCIATION

Professional, unbiased non-profit open water swimming ratification

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA OPEN WATER


SWIMMING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES.

IT'S MORE THAN JUST A SWIM


NORTHERN CALIFORNIA OPEN WATER

With each sunrise, we find ourselves amongst some of the most beautiful,
challenging, and iconic open water swimming venues in the world and truly
consider ourselves fortunate that this "Golden State" of ours is also our home.

San Francisco Bay, flanked by a world-class city, two fantastic swimming clubs
steeped in tradition for more than 140 years, memorable day swims, and three
challenging marathon swims, offers swimmers of all levels many amazing and
challenging open water swimming opportunities year-round.

Lake Tahoe, a short 3-hour drive east into the Sierra Nevada mountain range is
North America's largest, 2nd deepest, and most amazing alpine lake. Tahoe is
nothing short of inspiring and stunningly beautiful. With three of it's own
world-class marathon swims, different levels of challenge presents themselves,
namely limited buoyancy, altitude, and course length.

In short, open water swimming venues don't get much better than what you'll find
in Northern California. Whether you want a simple dip in San Francisco's Aquatic
Park, an 'Escape from Alacatraz', a six or eight hour training swim, or the
12-Mile True Width, or 21-Mile Length of Lake Tahoe, we have amazing open water
swims for athletes all abilities and look forward to sharing it with you!

Our Goals


CLARITY OF PURPOSE

Quite simply, we strive to implement safety, leadership, professionalism, and
transparency to our Open Water Swimming courses, swim attempt observation, and
swim ratification while making the sport accessible to athletes of all levels
and ability.

WHERE TO SWIM


MARATHON SWIMS



SAN FRANCISCO BAY
MARATHON SWIMS


Unlike any other marathon swim venues, our three marathon courses and numerousd
day swims provide advanced swimmers some rather unique challenges: Current,
tide, weather, visibility, vessel traffic, and water temperature must all be
carefully considered to be successful in any of our three, stunning marathon
swims. You've been warned...

LAKE TAHOE
MARATHON SWIMS

Completing one of Tahoe's marathon swims is quite an accomplishment. With the
lake's popularity increasing, we've raised the bar for those who love swimming
the lake as much as we do. We've now created the 'Lake Tahoe Triple Crown award
and our sister organization dedicated to Lake Tahoe:
Lake Tahoe Open Water Swimming Association


SIMPLE IDEALS

We believe in putting the swimmer first and supporting our amazing sport by
promoting Open Water Swimming as a self-less, non-profit organization with
leadership provided by some of Open Water Swimming's best...

Swim Ratification


CERTIFICATION & RECOGNITION

By providing un-biased, professional marathon swim observers, all completed
swims comply with our Marathon Swimming Rules and Guidelines and demostrate
respect of the History and Spirit of Marathon Swimming. Our highest priorities
are to observe, document, ratify, and report all marathon swims in a prompt and
professional manner, giving the swimmer due recognition for their efforts and
accomplishments.

LEADERSHIP


EXPERIENCE DRIVEN LEADERSHIP

A board of nine... Our board of directors are accomplished, long-time members of
the open water swimming community and decades of open water swimming experience,
numerous successful channel crossings, and seemingly countless marathon swims.
With this team's direction, we've been able to establish strong leadership, fair
and reasonable guidelines, and world-class experiences for everyone involved in
Open Water Swimming in Northern California.

MEET THE TEAM

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501(c)3 Non-Profit organization