Courtesy of WOWSA, Key West, Florida. Océane Peretti is a French swimmer from Hyères who is currently one of the co-captains at the Florida International University swim team. Despite cutting her leg during the race, she won yesterday’s 12.5-mile Swim Around Key West in 4 hours 5 minutes. She talked about her swim, her second

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alex Kostich spent decades alternatively training hard (from Boston to Palo Alto to Culver City, California) and winning ocean races (from the Pacific to the Caribbean) to working behind the scenes in Hollywood at Sony Pictures and Participant Media in Beverly Hills. The well-known open water swimming personality will

Courtesy of Catherine Vogt, Balatonfüred, Hungary. It was inevitable. Ana Marcela Cunha is not only always competitive in every race that she competes in, but she also had a tremendously successful 2017 FINA World Championship last year in Balatonfüred with a gold medal performance in the 25 km and two bronze medal swims in the

Courtesy of Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, Catalina Channel, California. Andy Ortega García kicked off the Catalina Channel swimming season today with the first successful solo crossing of the 2018 season in 10 hours 15 minutes 17 seconds. The Spanish swimmer from the Canary Islands completed his charity swim on behalf of the Asociación Niños con

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Now [I am] officially an outlaw of the sea,” said Patricia Sener of the Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers after a run-in with officers at Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk in New York. The Executive Director Emeritus of Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers and a