Courtesy of John Batchelder, English Channel. After waiting through a government-mandated quarantine and his window, John Batchelder finally got to attempt a 33.5 km crossing – swimming only butterfly – of the English Channel. 16 hours 13 minutes (unofficially) after stepping off the English coast, Batchelder landed in France on June 29th to become one […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As countries around the world start to begin another round of quarantines and lockdowns due to COVID-19, the Tokyo Olympic Games are set to begin as scheduled on July 23rd. Swimmers and athletes from dozens of nations have already entered Japan during June and hundreds of additional squads are

Courtesy of Piers Townley, The Brain Tumour Charity, Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Sir John Royden remembers his sister Emma who passed away due to a brain tumor in 2003 when she was 32. He said, “One distinguishing feature about my sister Emma was that she was loved and liked by everyone that she met. On the

He will swim across the Ilulissat Icefjord, fed by the world’s fastest moving glacier, in Greenland. The swim is expected to take two weeks starting today. No one has ever attempted a multi-day swim in the Polar Regions.

Carlos Sixto Bravo wrote about a brother, a sister and a friend who completed a 25.1-mile crossing from Santa Catalina Island to San Pedro on the Southern California mainland on September 25th.  Their crossing was a charity swim on behalf of Ocean Fever, a non-profit from Hermosa Beach that raises awareness through open water swimming.