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 […]

Courtesy of Jef Mallett, Frazz. Jef Mallett is arguably the best known open water swimmer with the greatest media reach in America and possibly in the world. His popular cartoon, Frazz, appears in 200 newspapers across the United States and worldwide. He occasionally addresses his hobby and chosen sport of open water swimming in his

Courtesy of Michael Pavitt and Deep Blue Media, Lausanne, Switzerland. FINA announced the renewal of its partnership with HOSA to support the FINA/HOSA Marathon Swim World Series until 2021. The Chinese swimwear manufacturer started its sponsorship of the professional marathon swimming circuit in 2015. “FINA is very pleased to renew with HOSA until 2021, a

Courtesy of Carolynn Box, 5 Gyres Institute, Los Angeles, California. Carolynn Box, Science Programs Director of The 5 Gyres Institute, described her initial meeting with Matt Moseley in the Caribbean Sea. “I met him while he was swimming the 50 miles between the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in shark-infested waters—cage free. Who does that?

Courtesy of Clay Kolar, Little Grassy Lake, Illinois. The 1-mile U.S. Masters Swimming Sprint-Distance Open Water National Championship will be held on June 9th in Little Grassy Lake near the SIU Touch of Nature Environmental Center at the USFWS Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge in southern Illinois. The event will also host a non-championship 1-mile

Photos courtesy of Cameron Bellamy, Cook Strait, New Zealand. South African Cameron Bellamy and American Steve Walker, two principals of Cobaltix in Silicon Valley, work hard and train even harder. Today, they completed their sixth Oceans Seven channel in yet another one of their tandem swims around the world. Bellamy completed his crossing in 12

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open Water Woman Swims Windermere is the story of Jacqui Hargrave who faced the challenge of swimming the length of England’s largest lake seven months after surgery. Amazon describes her book as her journey from surgery to swimming and everything in between: the highs, the lows, the physical and

Courtesy of Fazlul Kabir Sina, Bangla Channel, Bangladesh. The 16.1 km course across the Bangla Channel will be site of the 13th Fortune Bangla Channel Swimming 2018 in March. Following in the wake of the inaugural swim in 2006 by Lipton Sarker, Fazlul Kabir Sina and Salman Saeed, 33 swimmers – some as young as