Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Damián Blaum won the Maraton Villa Urquiza Paraná, a 21 km point-to-point race held along the Paraná River in Argentina. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association

Courtesy of FINAtv, Doha, Qatar. You can watch the world’s fastest open water swimming on live TV at the first stop of the 2018 FINA/HOSA Marathon Swim World Series is in Doha, Qatar this week. On March 17th, the men will compete in the morning and the women will compete in the afternoon; both races

Courtesy of XPRIZE. XPRIZE announced nine teams who advance to the final round in the US$7 million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. Each finalist will receive an equal share of a US$1 million milestone prize purse for their cutting-edge ocean mapping and imaging technologies. XPRIZE provide resources to help solve humanity’s grand challenges. The $7M Shell

Courtesy of Futurism, Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Decades ago when Lynne Cox and Penny Dean, Kevin Murphy and Michael Read were swimming across the English Channel in their primes, the standard rule of thumb was that the water temperature between England and France was below 16°C. Now as the four luminaries of the English Channel

Courtesy of Lisa Olmos de Koo, Miami Beach, Florida. “[It is] very sad to lost a great friend and human being,” said Antonio Argüelles about Nick Olmos-Lau who last worked as an officer for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs after a long and successful medical career. Elizabeth Fry sadly agreed about the doctor much