Captain Mizushima
Captain Mizushima is an tuna fisherman and escort pilot in the Tsugaru Channel between Honshu and Hokkaido in Japan. Captain Mizushima helped build the Seikan Tunnel, the underwater tunnel of the Tsugaru Channel early in his career.
Escort Piloting Career
Captain Mizushima uses a swim streamer on his boat when escorting solo channel swimmers and relays across the Tsugaru Channel. He is the lead escort pilot for the Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association and Ocean Navi. He escorted Oceans Seven swimmers Darren Miller of the U.S.A. and Stephen Redmond of Ireland across the Tsugaru Channel as well as Masayuki Moriya of Japan and several Japanese relay teams including Team Umiou of Japan and Team Ocean-navi of Tokyo, Japan that set the world wetsuit relay record across the Tsugaru Channel in 6 hours 44 minutes on 11 July 2012, and Adam Walker in 15 hours 31 minutes on 12 August 2013, Daniel Curtis in 13 hours 39 minutes on 7 September 2015, Antonio Argüelles in 12 hours 38 minutes in September 2015, Rohans More of India in 10 hours 37 minutes on 14 September 2015, and 73-year-old Toshio Tominaga of Japan in 9 hours 58 minutes on 7 September 2016.
Video
Video by Masayuki Moriya of Ocean-navi and the Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association of Mo Siegel
External links
- All For One, One For All Across The Tsugaru Channel
- Village Of Enablers Helps Adrian Sarchet Achieve The Oceans Seven
- Isshin Denshin In The Open Water
- Breaking News on Stephen Redmond
- Stephen Redmond Achieves Oceans Seven
- Stephen Redmond and Captain Mizushima
- Ocean Navi Takes Team Across The Tsugaru Channel
- Tackling The Tsugaru
- Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- Marathon Swimming
- World Marathon Swimming Association
- The Wait Is On, The Uncertainty Of The Channel
- Team Ocean-navi Sets Relay Record Across The Tsugaru Channel
- Why Are Two Boats Used To Cross The Tsugaru Channel?
- It Takes A Team And All Day
- Mad Adam Is Happy With Tsugaru Channel Success
- Monolingual Body Language In The Open Water
- 2013 World Open Water Swimming Offering Of The Year Nominees
- Masayuki Moriya Navigating The Pacific With Ocean-navi
- Free Wi-Fi In Japan For Foreign Swimmers
- Free Wi-Fi In Japan For Foreign Swimmers And Crew
- Peter Bales, A Navigating Giant Of South Africa
- Open Water Swimming Preparations For Tsugaru Channel
- Now Swimming, Then Success After 9 Hours 51 Minutes
- Oceans Seven Swimmers Take On Tsugaru
- Guy Moar Completes Tough Tsugaru Channel Crossing
- Ocean Navi website
- Ocean Navi videos
- Challenging The Oceans Seven In Asia
- Ocean Navigating Across The Tsugaru Channel
- Oceans Seven Swimmers Take On Tsugaru
- Curtis Cuts Across The Channel
- Rohans Gets One More Oceans Seven
- Why Swim? Because I Like It
- Abhejali Bernardova Swims Her 4th Oceans Seven Channel
- Stephen Junk Triumphantly Returns To Tsugaru
- 73-Year-Old Completes Historic Tsugaru Channel Crossing
- Terrific Toshio Tominaga Tackles Tsugaru
- Stephen Redmond Inducted In International Marathon Swimming Hall Of Fame
- When Weather Slowed Darren Miller Down, But Not Out
- Ion Lazarenco Tiron Goes Six For Six
- Prabhat Raju Koli Shows Immense Gratitude & Grit
- Tsugaru Channel Crossings - Channel Aspirant Information
- Mitsubari Ito Joins Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association
- Three's Good Company
- Three's Company In Japan
- Sea Bull Crosses The Tsugaru Channel
- Swimming Benefits Society As It Ages
