Don’t Be Prey – California Film Festival Tour
Don’t Be Prey, an authentic, real-world film about ocean swimming, will be featured at the Green Film Festival of San Francisco on October 16, the Newport Beach Film Festival on October 17, the Santa Monica Awareness Film Festival on October 18, and the Dana Point Film Festival on October 31. Click here for more information.
Steven Muñatones
Editor
Steven Muñatones was an American water polo player, a collegiate swimmer, and an open water swimmer from Huntington Beach, California. He has been a coach, administrator, writer, race director, kayaker, paddler, official, observer, author, lifeguard, reporter, Olympic commentator, aquapreneur, and adviser in the the sport of open water swimming.
He founded the World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Oceans Seven, WOWSA Awards, Openwaterpedia, KAATSU Global, and KAATSU Research Foundation and served as an ambassador for the American Heart Association. He has written over 21,344 articles on open water swimming, water polo, and KAATSU to date. He created the www.imshof.org, www.openwaterswimming.com, www.openwaterpedia.com, and www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com websites among many others.
He received the 1984 Harvard University John B. Imrie Award, 1990 Guinness World Record, 2001, 2005, 2007 USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Committee Award, 2002 Honor Swimmer, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, 2007 & 2010 USA Swimming Glen S. Hummer Award, 2010 Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2016 Poseidon Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2018 Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame, 2019 Honor Contributor – Media of the International Ice Swimming Hall of Fame, and 2022 Dale Petranech Award for Services to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
Thomas Langlois Three-peats at the MPSF 5 km Open Water Swimming Championships
Thomas Langlois (Whittier College bio here, @thomaslangloisopenwaterswimmer) may have been the...
Swimmers Walking The Blue Carpet at the Newport Beach Film Festival
Marathon swimmers (including Lexie Kelly), channel swimmers (English + Molokai + Catalina +...
John Kenny Goes 2-for-2 in Swim the Arctic Circle
Photos courtesy of Christer Kuttainen. Swim the Arctic Circle (@swimaceu) is a 2 km and 3 km...
What A Great Gift, A Touching Memorial To Harry Huffaker
Dr. Harry Huffaker, DDS was an Honor Swimming in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and always lived his life to the fullest, was the subject of the book, The Incredible Life of Dr. Harry Huffaker
Make A Splash, Make A Difference, Swimming Around Hong Kong
Make Waves for Hong Kong enters its fourth year hosting a 45 km circumnavigation relay swim around Hong Kong Island with 42 athletes on 7 teams
The Legacy of Jim Cotton Continues
The open water swimming world lost a legendary event creator and director with the passing of Jim Cotton, founder of the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, the Maui Channel Swim, and the Waikiki Swim Club.