Planning for Swim Shikoku
Swim Shikoku is a circumnavigation swim around the island of Shikoku, one of the four main islands of Japan.
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Sidney Russell Does 2 To Add to Catalina’s 15
Over the last nearly 100 years of Catalina Channel swimming history, there have been over 800 solo one-way crossings of the channel, but only 15 successful two-way crossings. On Tuesday, mother-of-two 37-year-old Sidney Russell (37, USA, MSF bio here) completed a 27 hour 52 minute 64.6 km two-way crossing of the Catalina Channel from Palos Verdes Peninsula to Santa Catalina Island and
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Britta Schwengle Represents Aruba, Making Her Father Extremely Proud
In 1988, Roly Bisslik [shown below] became the first person to swim 30 km in over 10 hours from Venezuela to Aruba in a charity swim in order to raise funds to buy a piece of land to build an Olympic swimming pool for the community of Aruba, later named Piscina Olimpico Roly Bisslik.30 years later, Bisslik coached 5 swimmers to
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No Surprise: Moesha Johnson Leads Open Water Swimming Global Rankings
As of July 20th at the conclusion of the open water events at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, Moesha Johnson (27, Australia, MSF bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @swimmer_moe) stood on top of the 5 km and 10 km podiums, as well of the World Aquatics global rankings (see below). Her 14,580 point total
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Bactiquick Provides Water Quality Information Fast & Easy
Water quality was the topic of discussion during the first few days of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships.in Sentosa Island in Singapore. Twice delayed, the most prestigious races in the open water – the Olympic distance 10 km – did not present a good look for the sport of open water swimming on the world’s
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Waterwoman Katie Rowe Nominated For An Emmy Award
Katie Rowe is an ocean swimmer and Hollywood stuntwoman who was recently nominated for her performance on Severance for an Emmy Award
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Bengisu Avci Swims North En Route To Hokkaido
Bengisu Avci (Turkey, 28, IISA bio here, MSF bio here, @bengisuavci) completed the fourth fastest female North Channel crossing in 10 hours 15 seconds yesterday. “I wanted to swim fast and did race tempo for last four hours [as] they lead me to the beach in Portpatrick [Scotland].” Now the 28-year-old heads back to Çanakkale
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Germany Wins Mixed Relay, Florian Wellbrock Anchors Team to 4th Gold Medal at the World Championships
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. Four races and four gold medals. In clearly dominant fashion. Florian Wellbrock (27, Germany, MSF bio here, World Aquatics bio here, @flo.swim) was absolutely Phelpsian (Spitzian) in conditions that would be unfathomable in the controlled environment of a 50m pool: The first three German swimmers of Celine Rieder (24, World Aquatics bio here) + Oliver Klemet
Taking Aussie Tough to a Whole ‘nother Level: Joanne Norman Is Back, Tackles Tough Tsugaru
Joanne Norman has completed five of the Oceans Seven channels. She was swimming well across the Molokai Channel until she experienced what every swimmer dreads.
Alessandra Rossi Cima Becomes First Brazilian To Achieve The Oceans Seven
Alessandra Rossi Cima (Brazil, 50, MSF bio here, @ale_rossi_cima_swims) has traveled around the world enjoying aquatic challenges of all kinds, traveling from in her home training base in Dubai. Her latest stop was in northern Japan where she conquered the Tsugaru Channel between Aomori and Hokkaido. She is still in disbelief that she became the
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