Nearly 100 years after her record-setting swim in San Francisco Bay, the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame will recognize one of the early pioneers of open water swimming Nell Schmidt. Nell did her swim in 1912 by the City of Alameda, California across the bay from San Francisco. The pigskin award shown above is […]

The Night Train Swimmers epitomize the dedication and determination of open water swimmers worldwide. An eclectic international group of swimmers from the San Francisco Bay just never, ever gives us. Their original goal was and remains swimming between the Golden Gate Bridge and the infamous Farallones Islands, 30 miles west of the California coast. Starting

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lewis Pugh talked frankly about the health and welfare of our oceans during his ever-focused, ongoing campaign to help improve our environment. Pugh, who has pushed the threshold of swimming in extreme conditions, shared these thoughts with feature writer Jim Harper who penned an upcoming cover story for U.S.

As the world’s aquatic community gathers in Shanghai this July to compete at the FINA World Championships in pool swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo, diving and open water swimming, the eyes of the media and fans will be focused on the stars. Will Michael Phelps begin his road back to Olympic greatness? Who will emerge

Started in only 2009, the Tom Wear Memorial Swim won the 2012 U.S. Master Swimming bid for the USMS Two Mile Open Water National Championship. The new charity race on beautiful Lake Hopatcong in New Jersey has come along fast and its selection as a national championship race is a tribute to its organizers, volunteers

Dr. Karah Nazor, race director for the Swim The Suck in Chattanooga, Tennessee, announced that National Geographic will film the C.O.W.S. (Chattanooga Open Water Swimmers) this coming Saturday, May 28th in the Tennessee River. National Geographic, which has been inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888, is filming a documentary style-adventure show for

While the general public is increasing flocking to the open water, it seems Hollywood is pulling back. According to inside reports, Pirates of the Caribbean – On Stranger Tides, the Johnny Depp movie, reduced the number of open ocean scenes when it came to producing the 137-minute blockbuster. The screenwriters created a story that limited

With FINA starting a regularly scheduled World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in 2012, national federations are setting up standards and making decisions on how their top younger swimmers will qualify. FINA awarded Swimming Canada the 2012 World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships where it will be held in the Welland Recreational Canal in Ontario.

Australian masters swimmer Val Lincoln is 86 and is getting faster in the water, both in the pool and open water. The Australia world-record holder recently lowered her 800-meter record by three seconds and won the 2K open water swim at the Australian Masters National Championships. She commented, “I was absolutely on cloud nine because