The number one ranked Australian Lifesaving Team will head to Alexandria, Egypt in October as the odds-on favorite to defend their title at the World Life Saving Championships (Rescue 2010) where over 3,000 athletes from around the world will compete in the pool and ocean. The ocean events will take place in Mamoura Beach where […]

The Anaconda Adventure Race Series in Australia might be a good test for open water swimmers to face some different type of challenges, definitely outside of their comfort zone. Anaconda Adventure Races are spectacular off-road events in wild parts of the world where competitors follow some tricky courses. Race through true wilderness and untouched landscapes

Al Bibane lagoon in Zarzis on the Mediterranean coast of Tunisia will host the 22K Dialogue Across The Seas event this Sunday. Swimmers from Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Great Britain, Portugal and Germany will take part in the international competition that crosses the warm Al Bibane lagoon in southeastern Tunisia. Copyright © 2010

While no open water swim on Earth has the amount and value of prizes as the Flowers Sea Swim, the prizes that are awarded in open water swims around the world are getting more and more creative and valuable. The Kingdom Swim on July 24th in Vermont’s Lake Memphremagog, with races ranging from 100 yards

With the Cook Strait banner season over, the Strait of Gibraltar getting off to a fast start in its channel crossing season and a few successful relays swims already achieved in the English Channel in June and hundreds more swimmers making plans, the Catalina Channel season will kick-off with a young relay team from the

Andy Caine, Elite Project Manager for Nova International, the company that puts on the British Gas Great Swim Series in Great Britain, announced the absolutely stacked field for the Great London Swim on July 3rd. Hot off of his initial win in the British Gas Great East Swim, legendary Australian Ironman Ky Hurst will have

Doug Woodring and his colleagues at Project Kaisei are doing all they can to help clean up the ocean’s waters. Project Kaisei was added to a new Expedia travel site called Travel Relief. If swimmers and their friends and families click on Project Kaisei while booking their hotel reservations on Travel Relief, then Project Kaisei

Lewis Pugh‘s autobiography Achieving the Impossible has shot up the charts and is now number 1 in a number of countries. “I am really delighted that the book has gone to Number 1. All the hard work now seems to have paid off,” commented Lewis who shared some great stories about his trials and tribulations

Karen Rogers is next up for the 30-mile solo swim from the Farallones Island to Aquatic Park in San Francisco Bay in early July. The Night Train Swimmers gave it all they had in the 50°F (10°C) water, but they were forced out due to hypothermia. The video of their swim is here. From this