Deepen Your Knowledge and Expand Your Dreams with AI – Aquatic Intelligence
Our educational and motivational course presents a comprehensive overview of the global community of open water swimming. The course offers lessons to learn about Olympic and professional marathon swimming, stage swimming, ice swimming, and channel swimming. Create your own unprecedented aquatic adventures – and receive a detailed 12-month training program customized to achieve your own dreams. To learn more, visit here.
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.
Hayden and Sasha-Lee Hemmens Win Swim The Avenues While The Spirit of Bill Brand Lives On
The 8th annual Redondo Beach Swim The Avenues event (@swim_the_avenues) was held today in...
I Raise You Another One: Triton Mexicano versus Dolphin Boy
Jesus Samuel Neri Gutiérrez (62, Mexico, MSF bio here, @triton_mexicano) and Hank WIse (58, USA,...
Alaska’s Abbey Jackson Keep Going And Going And Going
The first native-born indigenous swimmer from Alaska has now achieved the Triple Crown of Open...
Egor Tropeano and Elena Edatti Pioneer 25 km Coastal Swim between Dino Island and Cirella Island
Egor Tropeano and Elena Edatti pioneered a new 25 km coastal swim between Dino Island and Cirella Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Catalina Channel Rivalry Continues: Hank Wise versus Samuel Neri
Jesus Samuel Neri Gutiérrez has completed 10 career Catalina Channel crossings. Hank Wise is right behind him and will attempt to tie him tomorrow in a tandem swim with Brandon Samaniego.
Dr. Mariam Saleh Binladen Pioneers An Unprecedented Crossing in Greece
Dr. Mariam Saleh Binladen pioneered another unprecedented crossing, 18.3 crossing from Alimos (Kalamaki) in Athens to Fleves Island in the Saronic Gulf of Greece.