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.
It Just Needed To Be Done and The Judge Did It
Before his retirement and before he started to do marathon swims, Judge Peter Pontzer was on...
Don’t Be Prey Screening at the Dana Hills Film Festival
The last of four film festivals in California with the 91-minute film, Don’t Be Prey...
Carina Bruwer Goes Against The Current from Durban to Umhlanga
Carina Bruwer (46, South Africa, MSF bio here, @carinabruwer) has a habit of making hard things...
An Unbeaverlievable Open Water Swim in the Netherlands
Dutch triathlete Wout Hendriks survived a beaver attack in Maastricht while training for the Ironman Estonia
Age Is An Increasing Older Number – With Potential of a Higher Order
After 41 years, Vasanti Niemz finally achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. She did her first English Channel crossing in 1985 and did the Catalina Channel crossing this month, swimming for 18 hours 24 minutes. And she is just one of many older swimmers doing more and more bolder marathon swims.
The Largest Social Media Influencers In The Open Water: Who’s Who on Instagram
Ana Marcela Cunha, Lexie Kelly, Bárbara Hernández Huerta, Ross Edgley, Gregorio Paltrinieri, and Mounir Kariss are among the biggest social media influencers in the open water swimming world. Who are the others?