The Australian Associated Press shot some great photography at the Australian Open Water Swimming Championships. Photos of Ky Hurst outstretching Rhys Mainstone in the men’s 10K race and world champion Melissa Gorman are among the many great photos. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source

Britta Kamrau, an intense athlete and intellectual from Germany, won over 25 FINA World Cup and Grand Prix races over the course of her International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame career. In oceans, lakes, rivers and bays on five continents, she mixed it up with the best and won many closely fought, marathon races. Britta

Michael Spalding of Maui and Linda Kaiser of Oahu shared their experiences with sharks, box jellyfish, Portuguese Man-o-War, currents and waves during their two-decade history of crossing nine Hawaiian Island channels. They will soon appear on Open Water Wednesday together with stories that will surprise, educate and motivate both the seriously-minded channel swimmer and those

The 47th International Swimming Hall of Fame induction dinner will be part of a four-day celebration of aquatics in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on May 5th – 8th. Among the diving, swimming, water polo and synchronized swimming greats, the very best of the open water swimming world will also be honored. The induction ceremonies will honor

Hawaii Public Radio‘s show, The Conversation, briefly interviewed Penny Palfrey on its March 7th 30-minute show as she readies herself for an assault on the Molokai Channel later this week. One of the greatest swimmers of the 1940s, Keo Nakama, was the first to complete this channel in 1961 – and success is certainly not

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John Barrett, president of the Townsville Open Water Swimming Association, shares a story about the Magnetic Island Swim. “In the 2009 Subway Magnetic Island to Townsville Swim, we used a Red Baron bi-plane to take aerial photos, but it was too unstable for video and too noisy for race

The 7th annual Swim Miami presented by Nike Swim will prove to be more competitive and spectator friendly than ever in its new home. The Miami Yacht Club on Watson Island, with the downtown Miami skyline in full view on one side and the beautiful Miami Beach on the other, will be the venue for

The National Olympic Committee of Turkey Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim conducted a photo contest at its swim. The winners of the contest were 1. Ersan Küçük, 2. Cengiz Soysal and 3. Serkan Ali Çiftçi. They creatively captured beautiful images from the Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim, one of the World’s Top 100 Open Water Swims. Copyright © 2011