The Daily News of Open Water Swimming
To educate, entertain, and enthuse those who venture beyond the shore
“I was swimming, but I wasn’t conscious,” explains Ted Erikson often when describing his Farallon Islands swim to the Golden Gate Bridge in 1967, a feat that has yet to be replicated. He competed against Greta Andersen and Abdul Latif Abou Heif in the heydays of the 1960’s professional marathon swimming circuit, the 1960’s English…
