Jim Moriarty, Chief Executive Officer of the Surfrider Foundation explains the mission of the Surfrider Foundation here. While organizations like the volunteer-driven Surfrider Foundation help protect and preserve our shorelines and beach access, the open water swimming community benefits through their much appreciated efforts. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones

Federacion Mexicana de Natacion is hosting the majestically beautiful Sumidero Canyon FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix in southern Mexico today. The world’s fastest marathon swimmers compete down a river surrounded by towering walls. It is something to behold, whether you are a swimmer, a coach, a race official or a fan. Photo of Sumidero

David DeFelippo (28) from Texas, Margaret Dudley (28) and David Saxton (25) from Pennsylvania, Matthew McDole (27) from Colorado, Jennifer Paulding (25) and Michael Paulding (29) from New York, and local Traci Shiraishi (27) from Hawaii, known as the Hawaiian Island Channel Swimmers, will do a standard Maui Channel Swim from Lanai to Maui on

Swimming Canada opened its open water swimming portal here. Canada will have a lot to report on this summer as it hosts the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships and three other elite FINA World Cup and Grand Prix competitions in Quebec’s Lac St-Jean and Lac Memphremagog. As the world’s elite come to Canada’s shores,

Sid Cassidy reports that in addition to the tough competition at the elite level at tomorrow’s Nike Swim Miami, the event is also serving as the Florida Gold Coast’s 2010 Open Water Junior Olympic Championships and the selection meet to name the Florida Gold Coast’s very first Open Water All-Star Team. Florida Gold Coast’s Open

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This Wednesday, the New Hampshire Legislature passed legislation to provide the right-of-way to swimmers in the open water. This reasonable, yet intriguing, act of a political body to recognize the needs of swimmers in the open water when they encounter boats, Jetskiers, water-skiing, windsurfers, ferries and other watercraft was

This Saturday in Florida there are two major races on the American open water swimming calendar. On the west coast, the 13th annual Tampa Bay Marathon Swim will be 24 miles of decent distance swimming. 25 relay swimmers and 7 solo swimmers will take to the unseasonably cool (66°F/18.8°C) waters. 45-year-old David Barra of High

Invitations have been sent out to the 32nd annual La Traversée Internationale du Lac Memphrémagog in Quebec, Canada. The 34K marathon is a FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix event held on August 7th that attracts 20 of the fastest professional marathon swimmers in the world competing for US$25,000. It is a celebration of marathon