Courtesy of WOWSA, Pacific Ocean. In transoceanic stage swims, it usually takes a few days or weeks for all the practical operational and communication kinks to be worked out. “Literally, on the high seas, things just don’t work out as planned and the crew tries to get everything in order and running as planned,” says […]

Courtesy of Simon Sinek. Simon Sinek advises, “It’s better to go slow in the right direction than to go fast in the wrong direction.” Great words to live by, especially for swimmers in the open water. Sinek also says, “Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to

Courtesy of Herman Arrivillaga. Scott Weston Wolford, a 53-year-old masters and open water swimmer passed in a tragic fire on April 1st. Herman Arrivillaga explains the current ongoing fundraiser Water Conservation Fund in his memory, “The beloved man was a patriot for clean waterways going as far as writing a children’s book on the topic

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be held in Tokyo. It will be the fourth Olympics held in Japan following the 1964 Summer Olympics and 1972 and 1998 Winter Olympics. The vast majority of athletes, coaches, trainers, medical staff, officials and administrators around the world do not understand spoken