Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 47-year-old attorney Courtney Moates Paulk replicated the two-way crossings of the Catalina Channel by Greta Andersen (26 hours 53 minutes in 1958), Penny Lee Dean (20 hours 3 minutes in 1977), Cindy Cleveland (24 hours 30 minutes in 1977), Dan Slosberg (19 hours 32 minutes in 1978), John York

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 51-year-old British mountaineer and open water swimmer Jason Snell became a latest person to achieve the Peak and Pond Challenge this September. The Peak and Pond Challenge is an exclusive achievement by endurance athletes who have both climbed Mount Everest and swam across the English Channel. Snell summited Mount

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach. John Batchelder, a 36-year-old American mathematician is having a season to remember. The butterfly swimmer from Colorado is prepping for his second Catalina Channel crossing attempt, all butterfly, this week. This season, he swam the 38.6 km Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, the 15.2 km crossing of Saguaro Lake, 14.8 km

Courtesy of Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer, Lake Cane, Florida. 80-year-old George Mann celebrated becoming a swimming octogenarian by completing a 1 km all-butterfly non-stop swim across Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida. “In honor of this event, we have established the ButterflyMann award bumper sticker,” explained Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer. “It’s easy, swim 1 km butterfly, legally, with

Courtesy of Pádraig Mallon, Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services. Pádraig Mallon of the Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services uses three separate stopwatches and three separate water thermometers to measure the time and water temperature on solo and relay crossings of the North Channel and the Dál Riata Channel. The average time is taken

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jason Snell is a 51-year-old British mountaineer and open water swimmer who became a member of the Peak and Pond in September. The Peak and Pond Challenge is an exclusive achievement by endurance athletes who have climbed Mount Everest and swam across the English Channel. Snell summited Mount Everest

Courtesy of Mohammed Sofian Ismail, Pulau Perhentian Besar, Malaysia. Mohammed Sofian Ismail from Malaysia summarized, “Open water swimming is a very new sport in Malaysia, but we are proud of a recent inaugural event that we believe will be much loved by the world’s open water swimming community in the future.” His passion knows no