Courtesy of WOWSA, Manhattan Island, New York. While each and every entrant in the 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Swim has a fascinating back story, it was Australian teenager Ned Wieland from North Bondi, Sydney, Australia who became the youngest male to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Similar to American teenager Charlotte Samuels […]

Courtesy of Sarah Charette, Manhattan Island, New York. While each and every entrant in the 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Swim has a fascinating back story, it was 67-year-old Pat Gallant-Charette who generated national and international news interest. By adding a successful completion of 20 Bridges to her prolific career in 10 hours 53 minutes, she

Courtesy of WOWSA, Hojo Beach, Tateyama, Japan. The 2014 Pan Pacific Games 10 km marathon swim on Hojo Beach in Tateyama, Japan will be a great race to watch with the open water swimming stars of Australia, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, China, Argentina, Bahamas, Cook Islands, Colombia, Ecuador, Guam, Northern Mariana

Courtesy of Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, Catalina Channel, California. 15-year-old Angel More of San Carlos, California swims and swims and swims, a skill that her father Hemant More never had the opportunity to develop. But her father is fully supportive and proud of his precocious daughter. After starting a marathon swimming career at the age

Courtesy of WOWSA, Catalina Channel. Milko van Gool completed his third Oceans Seven channel yesterday. With a vast amount of experience under his swim cap while crossing the English Channel, North Channel, Lake Malawi, Bangla Channel, Rottnest Channel, and Ijsselmeer, the rough water conditions that he faced during his 9 hour 26 minute crossing did

Photo of Sarah Thomas courtesy of Andrew Malinak; ice swimming photo of Nuala Moore. The Naples Island Swim & SUP event is sponsoring a 2-hour presentation on The World of Open Water Swimming on July 18th from 6-8 pm at the United States Sailing Center in Long Beach, California. Steven Munatones of the World Open

Courtesy of Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System offers a map that shows the most recent detection of tagged tiger sharks. The location of individual tiger sharks can be tracked. The pink dots around the northern coast of Oahu in the above chart is that of

Photo courtesy of Vito Bialla, Night Train Swimmers. Isabelle Robuck recently wrote about A Day in The Life of a College Swimmer in Swimming World Magazine. Robuck described the typical 24-hour period in 8 stages: Step 1: Morning Practice Step 2: Breakfast & Morning Class Step 3: Nap Time Step 4: Afternoon Practice Step 5:

Courtesy of ASPIRE (Association for Spinal Injury Research, Rehabilitation and Reintegration), Ireland. Kevin Murphy has not only swum across the English Channel 34 times, but he has also swum around the world in many open bodies of water. His longest swim has lasted over 52 hours, and he has done several dozens of swims of