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Wyatt Song
Wyatt Song is a 45-year-old open water swimmer, entrepreneur, lead photographer for Moments In Time, dancer and skater from New South Wales in Australia.
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Open Water Swimming Career
- He is certified as an IISA Official Observer L1 as of 1 March 2022.
- He serves as an International Ice Swimming Association official.
- He swam the Bondi to Watsons Bay race solo in just over 4 hours.
- He successfully crossed the English Channel in 16 hours 12 minutes in 2012 under the auspices of the Channel Swimming Association.
- He participated in the 2014 Winter Swimming Championships in Finland where he competed in the 450m endurance swim.
- He finished eighth in his age group (45-49) at the inaugural 1000m International Ice Swimming Championship in Lake Semenovskoe in Murmansk, Russia in 0.8ºC under the auspices of the International Ice Swimming Association.
- He competed in the 2015 500m International Extreme Race of Winter Swimming (International Limit Challenging Race of Crossing Yellow River Qinghai China) across the Yellow River in northwest China's Qinghai Province at an altitude of 2,200 meters on the Tibetan Plateau, the world's highest altitude swimming race.
- He completed one Ice Mile and one Ice Kilometer swim.
- He completed the Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim in the Southern Ocean along the Antarctic Peninsula on 25 February 2018 in 18:21:40.
- He was named one of the World's 50 Most Adventurous Open Water Men in 2018 by the World Open Water Swimming Association.
Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim
Heading through the Southern Ocean en route to Antarctica to the Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim
44-year-old Samantha Whelpton of South Africa successfully competes in the Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim held on 24 November 2018 in Port Lockroy along the Antarctic Peninsula together with 41-year-old Alexander Brylin of Russia, 55-year-old Yunfeng Wang of China, 44-year-old Leszek Naziemiec of Poland, 52-year-old Paolo Chiarino of Italy, 54-year-old Andrey Agarkov of Russia, and 51-year-old Sergio Salomone of Argentina.
45-year-old Clinton Le Sueur of South Africa, 46-year-old Diego López Dominguez of Spain, 42-year-old Wyatt Song of Australia, 42-year-old Petar Stoychev of Bulgaria, 25-year-old Victoria Mori of Argentina, 46-year-old Madswimmer founder Jean Craven of South Africa, and the 61-year-old International Ice Swimming Association founder Ram Barkai of South Africa completed the Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim in Mikkelsen Bay in the Southern Ocean along the Antarctic Peninsula on 25 November 2018.
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2015 IISA World Championships
1st International Ice Swimming Association World Championships 1 km fastest heat on 20 March 2015 in Murmansk, Russia.
Lane 1 Evgeni Rabinovich
Lane 2 Sergio Salomone
Lane 4 Craig Lenning
Lane 4 Christof Wandratsch
Lane 6 Henri Kaarma
Lane 6 Albert Sobirov
Lane 8 Eduard Khodakovsk
Behind the camera: Wyatt Song
Awards and Honors
- Silver with Distinction and a Silver Award for his work in Weddings and Illustrative work at 2011 Australian Professional Photography Award
- Silver Award for his work in Australian Professional Photography Award 2010 in Melbourne
- Gold, a Silver Distinction and 4 Silver Awards for Weddings, Portraits and Illustrative work
- Silver Award with Distinction and 4 Silver Awards at 2009 Australian Professional Photography Award run by AIPP & Canon
- 4 Silver Awards at 2009 NSW Professional Photography Award run by AIPP
- 2009 Award of Excellence by Wedding Portrait Photographers International: 2nd place in the Premier Image category along with 4 Accolade of Excellence across two categories
Motto
The passage of time is filled with laughter, tears, love, surprises, anticipation and sometimes frustration, life is celebrated in the mixture of these ingredients, and whenever we're invited to partake in your special occasion, we work with endless enthusiasm, endeavor to seize those fleeting moments, creating timeless imagery for you to cherish in the years to come. Be it a wedding, a family outing, friends gathering or a baby arriving, we capture the story as it happens, we tell the story with passion.
External links
- International Ice Swimming Association bio
- Arctic, Antarctica, BiPolar Ice Swimmers Announced by the International Ice Swimming Association
- Ram In Redondo: Barkai On The Beauty Of The Ice
- Swim Mate Magazine
- Open Water Swimming
- Marathon Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Channel Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- Moments In Time website
- Wyatt Song on Twitter
- Christof Wandratsch Extends His Reach To The Cold
- 2015 Ice Swimming World Championship Results
- Elina Making Taking Safety To Her Limits
- Fast Frentic Freezing Freestyle
- Intense Competition Among World's Best Ice Swimmers
- The Power Of One, Henri Karma
- Ice In His Vein - Albert Sobirov
- Team Matters In Ice Swimming
- Checking Up And Checking In For An Ice Swim
- River Deep, Mountain High
- Can't Be Yellow When Crossing This River
- Swimming Studs Of The Ice
- Caring For Open Water Swimmers In The Extreme
- Setting Off To Swim At The Bottom Of The World
- Setting Off To Swim At The Bottom Of The World
- A Frozen Dream Come True In Antarctica
- Madswimmer
- International Ice Swimming Association
- Logistical, Operational, Rewarming Issues Way Down Under
- Waves In The Southern Ocean
- Neither Snow Nor Cold Nor Latitude Stop Swimmers
- 1000 Meters In -1.4°C At The Bottom Of Earth
- Watch The 2018 Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim
- How Fast Was The Antarctica Ice Kilometer Swim?
- Antarctica Ice Swimming Adventure By Ram Barkai
