Courtesy of Adherbal Treidler de Oliveira, North Channel. It is considered by many to be the hardest channel to swim across in the world: 35 km across cold, jellfish-strewn water between Northern Ireland and Scotland. And nothing could be further from the waters of Brazil than the North Channel. But Adherbal Treidler de Oliveira from […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, North Channel. Californian Amy Appelhans Gubser has been on a tear over the last few years – swimming the Farallon Islands (relay), across the Strait of Gibraltar, in Lake Tahoe, across the Catalina Channel, 4 stages of the S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge (twice), across the Santa Barbara Channel, the Border Buster in Lake

Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. After getting a taste of crossing the 19.5 km Tsugaru Channel on a six-person relay with Team Yajyu (チーム野獣 in Japanese or Team Beast in English) in July 2016, Tomonari Ogino started to think about a solo crossing. Almost two years to the day, Ogino’s

Photo of Alex Kostich, courtesy of Mike Lewis. 2,472 people finished the Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Samsung Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari or Samsung Boğaziçi Kıtalararası Yüzme Yarışı), a 6.5 km race across the Istanbul Strait where swimmers start by jumping off a ship in Kanlica on the Asian side of the Bosphorus and finish on docks

Courtesy of Juan Kyfo, Chalkidiki, Greece. The Greek open water swimmer Chrysostomos Giannoulakis won the 48th International Swimming Marathon of Toroneos Gulf (ΔΙΕΘΝΗΣ ΚΟΛΥΜΒΗΤΙΚΟΣ ΔΙΑΠΛΟΥΣ ΤΟΡΩΝΑΙΟΥ ΚΟΛΠΟΥ) held in Chalkidiki, Greece. Juan Kyfo described the event, “Competitors in the 26 km marathon swim faced beautiful weather and the flawless organization by Sithon, the race volunteers,

Photos courtesy of Phil White (on Lake Memphremagog) and Arik Thormahle. Information courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. Jaimie Monahan will be honored – for the second year in a row – at the 2018 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. The conference and awards ceremony will be held at The Olympic Club in

Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Dalkey Island, Ireland. Nine years after Captain Matthew Webb crossed the English Channel for the first time in human history in 1875, the first long distance sea swim was recorded in Ireland in 1884*, just south of Dublin. The coastal route was from Dalkey Island to the Bray Head Hotel. Ger

Courtesy of Phil White, NEKOWSA. Vera Rivard is a 14-year-old American open water swimmer from New Hampshire. Her exploits this year were bookmarked between a winter swim in February and a marathon swim in July. In February, she participated in 6 races during the Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont when the water