Six intrepid and accomplished swimmers will attempt swimming from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallones Islands on June 4th. Laura Vartain, Cathy Delneo, Melissa King, Lynn Kubasek, Patti Bauernfeind and team captain Kim Chambers will attempt their 30-mile relay swim on June 4th as part of the Night Train Swimmer‘s continued charity swims across […]

Thomas Noblett, Liane Llewellyn, Keith Bartolo, Michelle Lefton, Michelle Sharples and Dee Llewellyn are well on their way to set the world’s longest non-stop relay record in Windermere in the Lake District in England, but it has certainly not been easy so far. Thomas, who lives on the Windermere, reported 44 hours in their swim

Say Jersey and Sea and the well-established Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club comes to mind. But on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the more recently established New Jersey Race Club caters to the Americans on the East Coast. Founder Andreas Roestenberg offers a series of short ocean swims for athletes of all ages

Whether the swimmers compete in the 0.8K, 2K, 4K or 10K races at the 21st annual Bermuda Round The Sound Open Water Swim, they will enjoy the dramatic coastline of the UK Bermuda’s Harrington South where the average water temperature is 78°F (°C). Randy Nutt explains, “You can warm-up for the 21st annual event by

Daan Glorie of the Netherlands will attempt to break the current world record of Australian Grant Robinson who swam 101.1K over one continuous 24-hour period. Daan must maintain a pace faster than 1:25.5 per 100 meters to beat Grant’s record. “It is a big dream for me to have a world record. I want it

Teammates Liane Llewellyn, Thomas Noblett, Keith Bartolo, Michelle Lefton, Michelle Sharples and Dee Llewellyn reported that the team started at 7:30 pm yesterday on their 126-mile relay during a cold, windy stormy night on Lake Windermere. Swimming well as they forge to a world record 12-way crossing of Lake Windermere, Dee and Liane (shown on

From Asia and Oceania to the Americas, Europe and Asia, it seems that men’s swimsuits are becoming more and more colorful at open water swimming events. More colorful…and more expensive. The French swimsuit brand Vilebrequin (“crankshaft” in French) is coming out with its newest set of its limited edition board shorts that cost a whopping

At the 2011 FINA World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China, there will be room for 30,000 fans on the Jinshan City Beach to watch the 5K race, the 5K Team Time Trials, 10K Olympic qualification race and the 25K marathon swim between July 19th – 23rd. The indoor pool stadium, by comparison, holds 18,000 spectators

Dr. Annette Salmeen is an American biochemist and a 1996 Olympic gold medalist who will speak at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in New York City on June 17th – 19th. With a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in biochemistry as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 2001 and a specialist in molecular pharmacology